If you take a joke apart, what do you have left? | Paul Chadwick
As readers' editor, I have seen that investigating satire and parody as we would a news item can miss the pointThose elegant sages of laughter, EB and Katharine S White, offered this advice in the foreword to their 1941 collection of American humorous writing: "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind." I recall it …