“Has your son decided what he wants to be when he grows up?” I asked my co-worker. “He wants to be a garbage man,” she replied. “That is an unusual ambition to have at such a young age”, I said. “Not really. He thinks that garbage men only work on Tuesdays.” The great humorist Victor Borge once joked that “laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” My husband John and I have been enjoying watching the CNN series History of Comedy. It describes how humor has chan