On this episode, we chat with two people who have spent a lot of time thinking about what makes people laugh: Phil Witte and Rex Hesner.
Phil is a longtime Funny Times contributor, cartoonist, and humor writer whose work has appeared everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to The New Yorker. Rex Hesner is a humor writer, jazz musician, and — alongside with Phil — a cartoon critic.
Together, they’re the authors of Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons, a book about the strange machinery of single-panel cartoons: the gag, the drawing, the caption, the timing, the twist — and why single-panel cartoons are so magical, and so hard to pull off.
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