I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation.
This is probably where my own quote,if it’s funny enough you can do anything (in your writing) – came from.
Dan Alatorre 
I agree with this. I learned early on to make a joke in front of bullies so that everyone else laughed and the bullies had no choice but to laugh too.
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Funny, that was my approach, too.
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See, great minds think alike. No, don’t finish the quote. lol
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Yes, It must, however, be natural sounding, not forced or contrived
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No doubt about that. Find your voice and use it. Great point.
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Sometimes you have to let them down gently into the joke though.
In my experience if there’s one thing folk like more than a good laugh, it’s having their sensibilities outraged so they can have a wonderful rant.
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You might be right about that!
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A classic example of a humorous line which leaves the ‘target’ folks ‘head scratching’:
Groucho Marx’s explanation from resigning from a prestigious club; (there are various versions but the basic is)
“I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
It’s difficult to be angry when the deliver of the joke is being self-deprecating.😃
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Must be the thought upon which the idea of a spoonful of sugar was based…
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Hmm…
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