The Joke’s on Me

I used to write jokes for IBM. Seriously. Mostly, this was slipping bits of humor into speeches that needed a lighter touch, but once I actually produced/wrote/directed a whole show of skits. It wasn’t Saturday Night Live, but it was good enough to get laughs out of an auditorium full of researchers.

My brother-in-law got wind of this, and the line, “IBM is so stodgy, Peter writes jokes for them” had a minor vogue within the family.

I mentioned Johnny and his Weasley-like family in my first pos...