Why a poached egg is funny
I performed in a show in Maine earlier this week called Sound Bites. In addition to telling a story, I also served as the emcee for the evening, introducing storytellers…
I performed stand up comedy for the first time for one very important reason.
Last year, a friend asked me to try stand-up comedy with him. I said no and moved on with my life. But knowing I had to follow my "Say yes…
A theory on the funniness of people who routinely interrupt others
Here's what I know: Humor requires patience. The punch line is almost always the last thing to be said, and yet so many people want to say it first. They…
Alex Pareene’s takedown of Andy Borowitz’s humor in Salon is a joke.
Alex Pareene wrote a take down of humorist Andy Borowitz that I found so infantile that I felt obliged to write a take down of his take down here, even…