Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
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What Makes Things Funny?
You think a lot of humour stems from fear and despair. Eddie murphy would be an example. So mad didn't seem so outrageous any more. Do you think that's it? It could be. And then we had, you know, we had a cross over into tell of it like saturday night live. Youknow, we brought the sensibility of my generation to t v, complete willingness to mock everything,. Mock commercials the way mad used to. Nobody, but nobody, on television mocked television. T there's something surprising about it.
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