Notes From a Life-Long Learner: Comedy Writing
"It's the jokes. I need the jokes." This is something a young library patron said to me the other day. He wanted me to find him a DVD of Abbott and Costello’s greatest movies and routines. I felt an instant kinship with the boy, whom I’ll call Hal. “Yes,” I thought as I took to the catalog. “It’s the jokes.” I remember being a kid and watching Abbott &am…