humor

Marya Mannes once wrote, ?The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future....

Few people stop to think much about it when they fart. Unless it happens on a crowded elevator,then everyone thinks about it. You may not have pondered the fact that ther...

I bought a coloring book yesterday from Wal-Mart. I hadn't colored in years and I got the strange urge to out of the blue. I also bought a 24-pack of Crayola crayons. The box s...

You've schemed, you've scammed, you've plotted, but the elusive layoff has evaded you for the last time. Your desire to go to that spacious severance-package-in-the-sky needs ...

So you?re thinking about going country? It?s time to abandon the frenzy of city life, drop the ?G? from the end of your verbs and trade your Gucci for goats. You long to be in ...

Imagine placing two flat screen plasma TV?s side by side in your living room smack dab in front of your couch. You?ve got beer, snacks a-plenty and fresh batteries in your clic...

Let me just make one thing clear before I proceed. I am generally an animal loving person. If a dog comes to my house and goes number one on the fence, fine no problem. Squi...

Practical survival skills should be fifty percent of what we study in school! Languishing twelve to sixteen years in the bowels of our education system should not leave America...

As Suzy stammered, my ears perked up. For distraction I called out, ?Hey Kathy, put on another pot of coffee.? Suzy spoke again. The fact is, gouging my own eyes out with a ket...

How do comedy writers come up with endless funny ideas? Basically they employ the technique called ASSOCIATION. They pair up or associate different images, words and thoughts t...

I have recently been re-examining the seemingly absurd notion of having comedians and cartoon characters filling in for the roles of our current politicians and statesman. Af...

People are always curious as where do humorists get their wacky ideas all the time. Once awhile you may hit upon a funny line or silly joke, but to churn out an endless stream ...

Somewhere on the Edge of Lake Trasimeno, Summer 2002 Elliot ran along the muddy shoreline with his lanky body bouncing up and down as he pulled his feet from the mud. It was...

The secret in comedy writing is association. Let's see how this technique of association generates hilarious result. By association, means by pairing or combining thoughts, ima...

My last piece I talked about associating or pairing up opposites to produce funny ideas. Now we associate SIMILARITY or CONGRUITY; by puting the same or similar objects, person...