Bad News Limerick

I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:

A diva was slammed in the news…

Here’s mine:

Bad News Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane

A diva was slammed in the news.
The column was chock full of boos.
It lambasted her voice
And her musical choice.
Now that woman is singing the blues.

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.

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20 Responses to “Bad News Limerick”

  1. Peter Metrinko says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For dyeing her hair bright chartreuse
    She said: don’t bust a kidney
    I’m singing “Carmen” in Sydney
    And this will frighten the male kangaroos

  2. A diva was slammed in the news.
    For hitting Obama with shoes.
    She also tossed pie,
    and was a bit sly,
    But on Mosques she had a short fuse.

  3. A diva was slammed in the news,
    And responded without any clues,
    To her critics, she then cawed,
    With a loud, angry laud,
    “That without me, there’d be none of you’s.”

  4. Jesse Levy says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    for saying bad things about Jews
    She’s not anti-semetic
    She’s peripatetic
    You can tell by the look of her shoes

  5. Jesse Levy says:

    A diva was slammed in the news.
    Her singing was like a cat’s mews.
    Her voice was so bad,
    they arrested her dad
    For something called “aural abuze.”

  6. A diva was slammed in the news
    By a critic with nothing to lose
    She punched him in the face
    Recovered her grace
    After all she had paid her dues

  7. Linkmeister says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For conspicuously telling untruths
    She said “I got them from Mailer
    and not from Charles Taylor.”
    The court sent her off with the blues.

  8. madkane says:

    A fun batch of limericks! Thanks. And please keep them coming.

  9. Vivek Banerjee says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    They said her character was loose
    But the channel changed its tune
    And that too ………….…very soon
    The moment she paid her dues.

    A diva was slammed in the news
    When she was caught in the mews
    In the company of a man
    Wearing only a suntan
    An example of news on the loose

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For daring to wear platform shoes
    Said she, ‘ I don’t care a bit,
    Your views aren’t worth a shit.
    I’ll bloody well wear what I choose.’

  10. kanchan bhattacharya says:

    A diva was slammed in the news…
    For exposure candid, and profuse
    Of the celebrity knee
    When bitten by a bee
    As she hit out at the insect with her shoes!

  11. Robin Stojanov says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    for overindulging in booze
    Then shaving her head
    Like a hick, interbred
    While revealing her misspelt tattoos.

  12. A diva was slammed in the news,
    For canceling too many shews
    “Shut up!” said the diva,
    “I’ve got a high fevah!
    “And a lawyer who constantly sues!”

  13. Elisson says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For excesses with pills and with bews.
    She’ll go out on the morrow
    And assuage her sorrow
    By buying a boatload of shews.

  14. A diva was slammed in the news
    for owning thousands of shoes
    which gave her pleasure
    and a shopping treasure
    she vowed that she never would lose.

  15. Barbara in VA says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For taking her pills with her booze
    She continued to drive
    Never passing a dive
    And she’s now driving out at The Mews

  16. Dr. Goose says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    And condemned from the pulpits and pews,
    Her show was suspended,
    On Facebook de-“friended,”
    But on MySpace she doubled her “views.”

  17. madkane says:

    Oh good — more fun limericks! Thanks … and please keep them coming.

  18. Steve Vitoff says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For habits no one could excuse
    Backstage she’d demand
    M&M’s for her band
    ….But only the yellows and blues

  19. Steve Vitoff says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    For wearing the wrong kind of shoes
    Instead of erotical
    They looked quaintly nautical
    Like two uninspired canoes

  20. Cynthia Boggs says:

    A diva was slammed in the news
    By her lifestyle, breaking taboos.
    Her diary was brimming (with)
    Tales of hot men(/women)
    She’s still a hit – some folks can’t lose!