The comedy of a well placed marching band

English: UCLA marching band (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I wrote The Love of Three Oranges as part of my honors thesis on comedy my senior year of college. As you could imagine, I spent a lot of time doing research on comedy that year and my friends had all heard me go on about it at one point or another. I tried to resist being like, “That was funny because…” every time we all cracked up about something though I’m confident that I did it once or twice.

One evening, my roommates and I were doing s...