No, I’m a playwright. I often write comedies. They are super difficult because you have to use every single word carefully and tentatively - or else, you ruin the joke. Much harder than death, taxes or drama! Both my father and brother were and are very successful comedy writers in Hollywood and New York. So I’m very proud of my heritage. They taught me from childhood what was funny and what was not. Of course, it was a very urban, basically Jewish-humor world I grew up in. Not at all Hee Haw.
Fascinating! Please, share your work!
I’d sure say the mindset for that has to be different from, say, Jeff Foxworthy’s writers. You can be a bit broader with redneck funnies. It amazes me how the Jewish literary community has such subtle humor, and yet it has a wide appeal among gentiles too (as long as it doesn’t depend so heavily upon a Jewish context it can’t be understood). Maybe if God held a mountain over me upon some smoke (one probably overly literal interpretation of the biblical passage) I’d crack up too... JUST KIDDING!