Clerihews are new to me but may be familiar to others. They are whimsical 4 line verses which try to sum someone up in 4 rhyming lines (AABB)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew

Famous early example -

Sir Humphrey Davy
detested gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having invented sodium.

Does anyone fancy having a go? I've tried and found it's easy to write a bad one, but doing a good one is harder than it looks.

I've written a bad one too. I wouldn't worry about asking for good ones. This kind of rhyming scheme doesn't lend itself to good poetry.

Take one Jeremy Clarkson
For colonic infarction
Add Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum
For Top Pain in the bum

Dave, you're annoying, but I had to eventually have a bash. I think I've managed to incorporate much of what is given as a guideline for the Clerihew in Wikipedia.
I may even put it up as a Blog :-))

Steve Mellor - poet - no middle name,
Was recently accused of deflecting blame
For the quality of his work, so instantly hit upon
The thought of taking a nomme-de-plume - ‘Teflon’

David Bradley
Never wrote badly.
Whether prose or verse
- someone's always worse.

Excellent, Izz, Steve and (especially) Anthony. I'll have to have a go myself now. Umm....

Nicholas Clegg
The curate's egg
Life can be piddle
In the middle

John Stuart Mill
of his own free will
on half a pint of shandy
was particularly ill...

Nearly a clerihew from Monty Python.

Plato, they say,
could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey
every day!

Not a clerihew (I am guessing)

Poets today
Write their own way
With little prosperity
And no likely posterity

Modern singers I've found
Sing at maximum sound,
Like a horn needs the fog
Or a blind man a dog!

For those who are not familiar:

The Philosophers Song (Monty Python)

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whiskey every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

Obama seeks re-election
Republicans fight for selection
Their candidates are so poor
He's half-way through the door.

In an age when we're told we're all
equal,
I fear to imagine the sequel.
When excellence is merely plain and shoddy,
And everyone is someone...and no one's anybody!

That's clever MC - Clerihews are meant to be about an individual, but using the form in this way makes the point about loss of individuality. Neat

Does Stephen Hester face an onus
To refuse his bonus...
Or is it due reward,
Approved and above board?

Djokovic beat brave Nadal
And was heard to say "Hey pal...
Be quick now - if you hurry
You can console poor Andrew Murray".

Stephen Hester has now shown us
How to say no to a bonus
My fickle thoughts now dwell upon a
future with a "thank you" honour.

David Cameron over in Brussels
Was seen to flex his U.K. muscles
But was his veto merely an act
For an EU minus 2 fiscal pact?

I wonder just why I'm alone
Creating clerihews on my own
Try them and I'm sure you'll find
Fun and frolics for the mind!

I think you've made a small typo in your first Stephen Hester clerihew MC. "Onus" - surely it's an "a"?

I note your suggestion of a "typo"
And might be inclined to a wipe-o
Except that banker Stephen Hester
Acknowledged the rage of the public
investor.

Harry Redknapp
Beat a court rap
I bet there's HMRC fury
At how he scored and won the jury.