Took a (needed) break from Wuthering Heights to read How to write romantic comedies by Jane Lovering and Rhoda Baxter One of the best works on writing comedy I've read, really explains different types of humour and how to use it Could have had a lot more depth and exploration of humour thoughts

There are very few books on writing comedy that take the subject seriously and explore humour in depth I suspect it's because we don't really know what humour is We have theories about why we laugh at certain things and we know ways jokes work, like the rule of threes, but we're still learning