An Anatomy of Humor - Guest Post by Cynthia Port
An Anatomy of Humor
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. -E.B. White
Because I write humorous fiction, I am often thinking about humor itself. For example, what makes it funny? What qualifies a novel as humorous fiction rather than some other category of fiction that happens to have humor in it?
In other words, let’s kill some frogs, shall we?
I’ll begin by paraphrasing (liberally, and with apologies to a great man) Winst...
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. -E.B. White
Because I write humorous fiction, I am often thinking about humor itself. For example, what makes it funny? What qualifies a novel as humorous fiction rather than some other category of fiction that happens to have humor in it?
In other words, let’s kill some frogs, shall we?I’ll begin by paraphrasing (liberally, and with apologies to a great man) Winst...
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