Saturday, January 17, 2009
This serious business of humor
Being funny is not easy. Then again, its not all that hard, all I do is exaggerate mine and everyone else’s foibles in such a way it makes the reader feel better about themselves. Besides, they know I’m really kidding, no one could be as accident prone as I propose to be. It’s a little like Steve Martin with the arrow through the head gag. It was funny because it was so obviously cheesy. So when I wrote a long account of buying a new snow thrower it was my version of an arrow through the head,...
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