This is low key massive praise 🤍

Both my favourite humor writers are dead. Which is only good because their books are now in public domain.

One is Stephen Leacock. You should read his collection "Literary Lapses." So many fantasic pieces: "My financial career," "Men who have shaved me," "How to live to be 200"...

The other is Robert Benchley. He died a year after Lecock, in '45 (I swear I had nothing to do with this—it'd be decades until my conception and I had very limited plotting capabilities since the womb, as there was no blackboard in my mother's innards). Benchley has tons of collection books, but my favourite piece of them all is "The social life of the newt."

But what would be most helpful is Leacock's "Humor and Humanity," which is a sort of "how-to book" to understand how humor is crafted. I've read tons of craft books about humor and honestly, that one's the only good one.

Anyway. If you read any of them, you'll notice my style has diverted (fortunately; you don't want to write like 1945 folks in today's internet) but they helped me immensely in figuring out the rhythms in writing and how to find and leverage the hidden absurdities within what I'm trying to say.

Thanks for trying to figure me out man.