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• As a professional humorist, I often get letters from readers who are interested in the basic nature of humor.
  What kind of a sick perverted disgusting person are you," these letters typically ask, "that you make jokes about setting fire to a goat?...
• As a professional humorist, I often get letters from readers who are interested in the basic nature of humor.
  What kind of a sick perverted disgusting person are you," these letters typically ask, "that you make jokes about setting fire to a goat?...
• Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead
  when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water....
• Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead
  when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water....
• Ever since prehistoric times, wise men have tried to understand what, exactly, make people laugh.
  That's why they were called "wise men." All the other prehistoric people were out puncturing each other with spears, and the wise men were back in the cave saying...
• Ever since prehistoric times, wise men have tried to understand what, exactly, make people laugh.
  That's why they were called wise men. All the other prehistoric people were out puncturing each other with spears, and the wise men were back in the cave saying...