Built a limerick-writing computer The metre was fine And the rhymes quite divine But for some reason it always got the last line wrong. Give me an example of a genius: The man who put the 'b' in subtle. On a faraway island lived a solitary genius.

If the set-up, punchline duo is like the dough-base to a joke-pizza, the tools are the sauce and the seasoning. Let’s explore some popular tools for jokes in the English language and how some genius comedians use them. Self-deprecation. Self-deprecation

This is not to say there’s no place for dark or edgy comedy or political subtext. But it is to say that when the person writing the joke is punching down at their subject, it’s not an endearing look. (Yes, I made fun of my mom a couple of paragraphs a