now that’s funny

I started reading Dave Barry’s column a few months ago and each week he manages to make me laugh. He is at the top of a very short list of good humor columnists. (I wrote that before I saw that page. How convenient.) I’ve found that it’s not hard to find humor columnists; the hard part is finding ones with the ability to make me laugh.

In addition to laughing, I enjoy making people laugh. I’m still working on that in my writing (let us not speak of the funny bull). By observing how other literary comedians have succeeded, I hope to pick up on a trick or two. A search produced the following list of potentially funny writers.

Joe Lavin
Art Buchwaldart
Sheila Moss
Joe Shockley
Melvin Durai
W Bruce Cameron
Tim Bete

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  1. Woo, Dave Barry is hilarious. And I don’t think he’s once mentioned the funny bull, he just instinctively grasps it by its horns! I don’t know how well reading funny stuff works for making one funny (I read funny stuff all the time!), but good luck with your efforts.

    Comment by Levi on January 22, 2003 @ 9:33 am
  2. Looks like Dave Barry has a weblog of his own. (via blogroots)

    Comment by dan on January 23, 2003 @ 9:50 am
  3. He moved.

    Comment by dan on January 27, 2003 @ 10:09 pm
  4. Hey, what am I chopped liver and onions? Have you never heard of the world famous, unparalleled, never-before-equaled, never-again-to-be rivaled, soon-to-be-committed Happy Guy? (That’s me, by the way.) Why not sign up for my column (did I mention it’s humorous?) and see what happens when you cross Dave Barry and Zig Ziglar. Sign-up is at: http://www.TheHappyGuy.com/positive-thinking-free-ezine.html

    Comment by David Leonhardt on September 10, 2003 @ 1:29 pm

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