HUMOR, ACCORDING TO DAVE BARRY

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge. --Dave Barry

Sounds good to me.

However, I've always preferred Aristotle's definition of comedy:

Comedy is tragedy which happens to your mother-in-law.

Dave Barry goes on to two rules for writing humor columns:

• Put the funniest word at the end of the sentence. [See above.]
  
• Put the funniest sentence at the beginning of the column.
  

Now, you know.