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Putting Humor
In Your Writing
2nd Edition, 2011
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“Humor is one of God's most marvelous gifts. Humor gives us smiles, laughter, and gaiety. Humor reveals the roses and hides the thorns. Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways. Humor endows us with the capacity to clarify the obscure, to simplify the complex, to deflate the pompous, to chastise the arrogant, to point a moral, and to adorn a tale.”
-- Sam Ervin, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (yes, the Watergate one)
“I don’t tell jokes. I tell the truth.”
-- Groucho Marx
“Humor is a universal language. It’s a contagious emotion and a natural diversion. It brings other people in and breaks down barriers. Humor is the one thing we can have control over. When someone is laughing, negative emotions are put in the background so that people are able to experience happier emotions.”
-- Ruth Hamilton, director of the Carolina Humor and Healing Association
“Almost every major figure in the history of philosophy has proposed a theory, but after 2500 years of discussion there has been little consensus about what constitutes humor.”
-- International Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Responsible Party
Thanks for reading our report. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Often during the Writing for Action workshops I’ve done, many people ask me about putting humor in their memos and letters. I’ve collected many of my thoughts in this report and added a few work jokes.
-- Michael Dolan,
trainer and author of
Write Better and Get Ahead at Work
