Well, they can also be about places and things. I found a little volume called Other People's Clerihews, selected by Gavin Ewart, Oxford Press, 1983[!], which contains, in among the Ewart, Auden, Cope, Clifton Fadiman, and Lionel Trilling, the following:
Jeremy Bentham,
When they played the National Anthem,
Sat on,
With his hat on.
XXXXXXXXXXJohn Whitworth
The Sun
Has a simple idea of fun,
It's
Tits.
XXXXXXXXXXBasil Ransome-Davies
On top of Popocatepetl
Foreigners are in fine fetl;
They can either sit and titl-tatl
Or look across at Itaccihuatl.
XXXXXXXXXXBill Greenwell
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-- Frank
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