More Snowmen, Less Stupidity
And Your Survey Results--Not Much Was Learned
I have for you the long-awaited survey results (3 days) to the humor survey in the last issue. Thank you to all who participated.
Late night talk shows
very close second, Friends (the people not the TV show)
The New Yorker magazine
Books
Facebook
Substacks
Bringing up the rear with the lowest response was: live comedy shows, Zooms, news outlets, TV shows, family. and podcasts. Car insurance commercials beat out them all.
What was learned? I would make these unfounded conclusions:
I didn’t include Facebook as an option but it was pointed out to me later that it is a favorite humor source for some. I would not have guessed that as it seems so often people are leaving the platform, many blaming the site as being too toxic politically.
I was a little surprised to see that The New Yorker is still on so many’s radar (I have a subscription). Maybe my audience just leans that way. It was sweet to see so many consider their friends funny. I’m certainly in the minority in that podcasts are my place to go when I need a laugh. And boy, TV comedy sitcoms are really a thing of the past. I, myself, can’t name one that’s not animated. Well, don’t want to bore you and so I’ll leave it at that. More importantly more snow-people…
Rare Vintage Snowmen
Here are a couple of snowmen from my personal collection. The last item I just purchased the rights but it’s an historic photo, one of the first ever in the world.








I hope sitcoms make a comeback. Some of my favorite writing ever is from shows like MASH and Frasier.
Love the survey insights. The Facebook result is genuinely surprising given how toxic that space has become, makes me think people are either finding niche groups or their feeds are radically different from mine. Also that first snowman photo from 1845 is wild, had no idea photgraphy captured something so mundane that early on.