Late Summer 2010
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
—Groucho Marx
In This Issue...
Miscellaneous Words on Comedy and Humor
Review of Hitch-22: A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens looks back on his famously outspoken, contrarian, and witty life.
A Polymath's Polymath: A Conversation with Kevin Jackson
The busiest writer, journalist, and filmmaker you've probably never heard of discusses his work and talks about his formative influences.
Joint review of Armageddon in Retrospect and Look at the Birdie
How does Kurt Vonnegut's posthumously published work compare with the stuff that made him famous?
Humor in Games: A Challenge to the Game Design Community
What passes as comedic in videogames is often anything but...so how can games succeed at humor?
Dan Gilbert Does Digital Discourse, and So Do You
How the Lebron James shakeup signals for the future of media farces.
Exhibition Review—"Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners: Works on Paper from the 18th through 20th Centuries"
A Visual Annotation in the History of Humor
