title: Writing Humor: Giving a Comedic Touch to All Forms of Writing
author:  Ian Bernard 
description: Ian Bernard has been a jazz musician, a playwrite, a screenplay writer, an author and a college professor. He was also a writer and music director for Laugh In. One of his screenplay credits is Oh Dad POor Dad Mama's Hung You In The Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad.
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  STEPHEN ** ** FRY
  
  
  
  
  
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  'appallingly funny'
  
  
  
  
  
  Daily Telegraph
  
  
  
  
  
  'a joyous collaboration of winging humour and sarcasm'
  
  
  
  
  
  Mail on Sunday
  
  
  
  
  
  'huge, crammed, wise, hilarious and utterly captivating'
  
  
  
  
  
  Literary Review
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  'I do more than invite you to read Stephen Fry.
  
  
  
  
  
  I urge you to. Fry is by turns observer,
  
  
  
  
  
  humorist, reviewer, philosopher, parodist,
  
  
  
  
  
  autobiographer, academic, scourge, clown and,
  
  
  
  
  
  as often as not, an antic amalgam of all these
  
  
  
  
  
  and more, and his variant style conforms
  
  
  
  
  
  flawlessly with each selected role'
  
  
  
  
  
  Alan Coren, Literary Review
  
  
  
  
  
  'I found myself gorging steadily through to the
  
  
  
  
  
  end, where there is a two-act drama, "Latin! or
  
  
  
  
  
  Tobacco and Boys", which suggests that Fry
  
  
  
  
  
  should have written for Kenneth Tynan when
  
  
  
  
  
  he was asse