What to Expect When People Learn You Write Humor…

By Shannon Reed

They will expect that you will be funny. As in, they expect you to be funny, to them, right now.Context will not matter, by the way. You are supposed to be hilarious, even if you are, say, about to be sedated for a colonoscopy.To be fair, that is a pretty funny situation. But maybe not to you.Still, you should have a joke ready. People will be disappointed if you don’t.“Make sure I’m still hooked up to the heart monitor when you give me the bill” is a decen...