If You Have To Explain It, It's No Longer Funny

Patrick Kurp talks to a ghost about G.K. Chesterton and being funny. “Chesterton is right: Only the serious is worthy of joking. Joy-killers preoccupy themselves with trivia.”

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  1. Jerry Clower, a humorist who was also a devout Baptist said, “I believe the only place in the world where there is no laughter is Hell. Praise God! Years ago, I made arrangements to miss Hell. Now I don’t ever have to be in a place with no laughter.” He likely said it several times, but I think I read it in Life Everlaughter.

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