Laugh with Me

Just made a few small adjustments to the meter of a couple of my poems. There is little room for improvement overall, I think. I'm surprised to see so many open seats at the library on a Sunday. Did the police round up all the stalkers and incarcerate them again? Let's talk about how we laugh. I don't consider myself a comedian, just a good writer. I know that there is a certain strategy to authoring an effective comedy script and I believe that I have more or less mastered it after many years of effort. The essence of humor, as Nietzsche may have indicated at some point, is cruelty. There is an almost reflexive laugh response when someone slips on a banana peel, for instance. Other comedy devices, such as irony or hyperbole or even wordplay ultimately depend on their application towards some sort of cruelty. In wordplay, for instance, the joke may consist of mocking someone's name with some closely resembling substitute. But how do we keep humor in good taste under these circumstances? We keep humor in good taste by directing its cruelty against deserving targets. It is in poor taste for a bully to mock his victim. The opposite is in good taste. My humor has been very well received by readers around the world since 1999 because it targets evil: greedy corporations, predatory stars, dishonest politicians, and so forth. And when you laugh with me against evil, you laugh best. The very targets of my jokes, the stars and corporations they mocked, took these jokes and passed them off to you as their own. When you laughed with them, they had you laughing at your own ignorance. They got an extra laugh out of it at our expense. This is a very poor laugh, and that's why people go to prison for indulging in it. You're not going to find any office boy who can come up with an advertisement like my Corporate Coffee or who will come up with news bulletins that make such glaring statements as mine against his capitalist overlords. And presenting such ass kissers as rebels with my humor has done far more to interfere with my comedy than to advance it.
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