Viktoria & Harry, you are a perfect match. Viktoria, you put food in your mouth, chew it, and swallow. Harry also puts food in his mouth, chews it, and swallows. Objects come from the magic ...

Hello. This is Phillip Periman in Amarillo reviewing David Sipress' book, What's So Funny? for the HPPR Reader's book club.

It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

Someone recently told me a joke that involved the pun “a frayed knot,” and I laughed like a lunatic. I don’t know why, and I don’t care. Laughing is laughing. I’ve always loved cartoons.