At one point or another, you've probably had the pleasure of meeting one of those people who at a certain point during a funny conversation stops you in your tracks and says "sorry, but I find that offensive."
In most cases such people go on to explain that they are not offended for themselves but for someone else who is not even in the room – perhaps they're offended for all the blacks in the street, or for all the women in Afghanistan; perhaps they're offended for all the people who died in the war, or all the blondes in the world who get picked on so often - point is, they'll stop the laughter, they'll stop the fun and giggles, to inform you that they've just been offended for someone else.
I find this annoying, to say the least, because I take humour very seriously, in fact when I first started writing, back in 1995, I wanted to offer something different – 'a taste of funny with a pinch of witty' I thought to myself - and for a while I refused to write in any other style if not that.
I kept it up for a while, but believe me it wasn't easy. You see, as any comic writer will tell you, getting funny right is damn hard, and with one small slip of balance you could send out a whole...
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