Dissecting a Frog: How to Write a Humor Piece - New York Times (blog)

Dissecting a Frog: How to Write a Humor Piece New York Times (blog) Analyzing humor, as E.B. White famously said, is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Nonetheless, writing humor is a highly logical exercise — fit idea X into form Y for humorous result Z — and can therefore be ...