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Last year I had breakfast with a college professor who has a theory about comedy.  It’s one of those “All comedy is X” theories.  He’s created a cottage industry around this idea (not a bad idea, but overly simple; an acorn being passed off as an oak), believing he has cracked the code of humor.  […]

So today was an interview with Colin McEnroe on NPR.  Very frustrating — I still have a lot to learn about presenting this material.  The problem is that anyone who has had any brush with comedy comes to the table with assumptions and preferences in place.  The book and its philosophy requires that one shove […]