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…
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 can't…
An analysis of humor that will make you a funnier person
This is supposedly a TED Talk about the anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon, but it is also a dissertation on the nature of humor and what makes things funny.…
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…
