At first, I thought your columns were just very funny, but airy without any deeper meaning. The more I read them (at least, recently), the more I've discovered excellent storytelling, and social and political commentary, although never terribly emphatic.
How much do you view your writing as being about something other than making people laugh? What, if any, impact do you hope your columns to have, other than uncontrollable spasms of laughter and milk coming out of peoples' noses?
It seems that you find gentle ways of poking fun at modern life, in ways that will probably offend almost no one (and thus can show up in all kinds of newspapers), but could be read as a much deeper criticism. Or am I reading too much into your columns?
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At first, I thought your columns were just very funny, but airy without any deeper meaning. The more I read them (at least, recently), the more I've discovered excellent storytelling, and social and political commentary, although never terribly emphatic. How much do you view your writing as being about something other than making people laugh? What, if any, impact do you hope your columns to have, other than uncontrollable spasms of laughter and milk coming out of peoples' noses? It seems that you find gentle ways of poking fun at modern life, in ways that will probably offend almost no one (and thus can show up in all kinds of newspapers), but could be read as a much deeper criticism. Or am I reading too much into your columns?