Thinking about the Funny

"In How To Write Funny, Esther M. Friesner writes, 'Your story need not be one long laugh-fest. Humor is dead serious stuff. In fact, humor gains depth when it’s about something more than just making the reader laugh. Food for thought—serious thought—goes down a lot more readily if it’s coated with a little laughter. Humor observes, analyzes and comments on the human condition, which can sometimes be a pretty scary thing to face head-on. Humor helps us cope with some of life’s harsher realities through laughter.'”

--From an essay by Tim Jackson


"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” — E.B. White