Books
February, 1984
Writing humor has long been recognized as the riskiest literary shot you can take, because, to paraphrase Dorothy Parker, any damn fool can rear up with no more credentials than a birth certificate and announce, "I don't think that's funny." And what's true for the writer is also true for the editor who decides to collect short humorous pieces into an anthology such as The Best of Modern Humor (Knopf)--in this case, Mordecai Richler. Forced to rate the funny vs. the stupid among these...
