Scott Adams, for the Wall Street Journal, offers some advice for humor writers.
From the piece...
Humor likes danger. If you are cautious by nature, writing humor probably isn't for you. Humor works best when you sense that the writer is putting himself in jeopardy. I picked the French-fry story specifically because it is too risqué for The Wall Street Journal. You can't read it without wondering if I had an awkward conversation with my editor. You might wonder if the people in my story will appreciate seeing my version of events in The Wall Street Journal. I wonder that too.
In the early days of my cartooning career, as the creator of "Dilbert," part of the strip's appeal was that I was holding a day job while mocking the very sort of company I worked for. If you knew my backstory, and many people did, you could sense my personal danger in every strip. (My manager eventually asked me to leave. He said it was a budget thing.)
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