Stephen Rowley

But who humor is directed toward?

You know, Patrick is never in the Gunkel book making fun of the kids.

You know, that would be punching down in a way.

And there are so many people right now trying to seize power by standing on the necks of the most vulnerable around us.

And those people don't need to be pointed at and laughed at.

Those people need a hand lifted up.

But it is our job to punch up.

It is our job to mercilessly mock those trying to seize power in that way.

And so it's just where humor is directed, I think.

But I do always try to aim for kindness.

in my humor, which there's an easy laugh to be had sometimes by making fun of somebody.

It's harder to surprise a reader with a different take that they may not have thought of themselves.

But I think it just challenges us to work a little harder, but it hopefully makes for a more kind and empathetic world.

I love that description.

His fair game.

Yeah.

It's because I have a hard time keeping track of people's names.

So there you go.

There's the universal truth.

I just wrote it into the, in a very funny way.