#644: On Telling Jokes

An unfunny meditation on the value of humor.

I make more jokes in an ordinary day than the average person, I think—which means I subject the world to a great number of unfunny comments. Though I would naturally prefer to elicit real laughter, the pity laughs that I generally evoke do not make me especially ashamed about my sense of humor. I freely admit to suffering from Chesterton’s quip that I t…