Jason Preston
Writing

Being funny TWICE

Jason Preston · 1 min read ·

Of all the possible professions in the world, the ones that impress me most are, in this order:

  1. Daily Comic Artist

  2. Author

  3. Phlebologist

Phlebologists are impressive because not only are they willing to spend their medical careers sucking blood from people’s veins, but they must also listen to really bad jokes about what they’re called. I once made the mistake of making a joke before they drew blood, and I will never make the same mistake again.

It might be more accurate to say that the idea of being an Arist scares me more than it impresses me. This is because I enjoy writing despite the fact that I’m not that good at it. And also, being an author (so far as I understand it) is largely made up of microwave pizza and deadlines, two things which scare me very much.

Finally, Daily Comic Arists, and I mean the kind that both write and draw their comics themselves, are the people who I am most impressed with. I try very hard to be funny at least once every day, which is much harder to do in writing than you’d think.

Anyone who can manage to be funny once a day, every day, 365 days a year (or an equivalent amount of funny, say they were funny four times in one day and took a trip to hawaii for the next three as a reward) has my respect and admiration. And if, like Scott Adams, they manage to be funny TWICE every day (once for the blog and once for the comic), I’m not even sure what to say.

I hope that someday I will be funny twice.