At the end of the Freud-filled 1920s, James Thurber and E.B. White launched their careers with a silly question and a spoof.
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“There’s no secret to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
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A Wasabi Alarm? Astrology Charts for Bacteria? Scheduled Earthquakes? The Ig-Nobels are science for wise guys.
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Presidents are rarely known for their humor, at least not their intentional humor. JFK was.
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Snoopy is a salesman now but for five wonderful years, he broke all the cartoon rules and changed American comics.
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Baseball was a fading relic. Then a Chaplinesque college kid put on a chicken suit.
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"In America, there are two kinds of travel -- first class and travel with children."
-- Meet Robert Benchley.
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