Fantastic news!

So I've spent the last decade or so trying to nudge the nascent humorists at The Yale Record in the right direction. And together, we have significantly increased the whimsy of America's lawyers and management consultants. In retrospect, they probably would've gotten more out of sticking their heads in a bucket. At least that's restful. You can really think.

But the cavalry is coming! John Cleese recently announced that he is retiring to write a book on comedy. There is some hope that laughs will not become an entirely endangered species--the culture that produced him (and Peter Cook, and Eleanor Bron, and all the other luminaries of British Comedy in the 60s and 70s) must be passed on!

Todd Jackson over at DeadFrog.com explores Cleesian humor a bit, using everybody's favorite term paper crutch, Henri Bergson, as well as that Rosetta Stone of all things John Cleese, Life and How to Survive It. Ooh, Professor Cleese, pick me! Pick me!