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Being Funny, Dave Barry-Style

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By Suzette Martinez Standring Past President, NSNC   Can writers learn to be funny?  To go from giggles to guffaws, is there a formula? On June 22 in Philadelphia, Dave Barry shared humor writing “secrets” before the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Robert Benchley once wrote, “Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless…