‘I’m Here to Make you Laugh?’ by Ian Moore ‘Funny? Funny how?’ So demanded a chilling Joe Pesci in Good Fellas channelling not, as many think, a psychotic wise guy hood, but actually literary agents and editors the world over when asked to consider a submission that includes jokes, comedy or farce. But why? Why […]

“I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I heard men who could manage their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still […]