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Cleri Who's Who
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Four lines rhyming AABB - scansion, rhythm, metre and all that malarkey is as random as-u-like. Oh yes - the featured subject, usually a person, is mentioned in the first line.
Here's a full and frank(ly better) intro by Thos along with some that were made earlier.
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In both his music, and in his choice of flamboyant clothing he has shone
Robert Zimmerman
Would be blowing in the wind if he were a much slimmer man
The times are a changin', though, like Bob himself when he legally became Mr. "Dylan"
As was the case with the late Lord Stockton, formerly known as Harold MacMillan. Brevity, a virtue posessed by those of a laconic nature and who wish to illustrate a point of view with some pungency regardless of the fact that on occasions a degree of offence may be taken by persons of excessive sensitivity, is the soul of wit.
Harry Webb
While on a summer holiday, met a young lady, Debra Byrne, whom he affectionately called Deb
Whereas Norma Jean Baker
Was ne'er a Quaker
Marion Robert Morrison
No rednecks here, sorry, son.
Whereas Roy Harold Scherer
Being gay, shunned the sex that is generally regarded as being fairer
Fingal O'Flaherty Wills
Sought a life of varied sexual thrills
Whereas Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr, in contrast stark
Got his Rocky Mountan highs by singing in the dark
Archibald Alec Leach
Strayed far from Severn Beach
But Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Kills clerihews stone dead. 5 days is long enough.
[Rosie]"Once took his son Michael Douglas and his other kids to Gstaad to watch 'em ski " is one line that would work.
Salvador Dali
Doted over Kali (Or "Kills clerihews stone deadsky.")
To whom Jackson Pollock nice easy one
Dedicated his left bollock. (irach) That doesn't work because the stress is all wrong. The rhyme has to be with "Demsky".
Ebenezer Scrooge
Once went on a day-trip to Bruges
While Bob Cratchitt
Tried to get on the train there too, but made it to the station too late to catch it
Dr Barbara Moore
Her feet were sore
Some sources claim that she was a 'breatharian', though others assert that she lived on a diet of nuts and honey
Which is a bit funny.
Louis Quatorze
Was afflicted with sores
He ruled over France for soixante-douze years
Surrounded by queers
Ringo Starr
Walked into a bar
He went "Ouch!"
"Me pouch!".
Gilgamesh
Despaired of the flesh
But Siddhartha
Did not, just like the character from How Green Was My Valley, Cyfartha
Britney Spears *ducks flying furniture*
Pops a breast wherever she appears
Her deathgrip on the spotlight has grown tiresome to say the least
And is about time it ceased. It will when she is The Deceased.
Stephen Fry
Is so sly
Whereas, Hugh Laurie
is ever so sorry
Stephen Fry
Hosts QI
So Hugh Laurie
should do Corrie!

Sorry - couldn't resist
Peter Hain
Hoped in vain
He'd concealed his sources
Let's hope this scandal his resignation forces
Kevin Keegan oblig., but not an easy rhyme, I grant you.
Once dated a vegan poetic licence invoked
She wore a cardEEgan poetic license revoked
While he returned to a club for which he had once played and previously ran poetic licence provoked
Meryl Streep
Eeeeep!
Mind you, she's not bad for her age born same year as me
About 80, one would gauge.
[Software] I was expecting a line like "But Eric Sykes"...
Dustin Hoffman
Likes to dress in women's clothes quite often [CdM] Never mind.
While Robin Williams, in "Mrs. Doubtfire"
Wasn't nearly as enthusiastic about his female attire.
Freema Agyeman
This Doctor Who actress's bosom can hardly be described as saggy, man!
Certainly much more shapely than Peter Purves
And someone I'd quite like to service.
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