Diversions
NOTES & QUERIES
On the hunt for humour, high and low
If sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, what is the highest?
The highest form of humour is meta humour. It takes a lot of intelligence to pull off breaking the fourth wall without it seeming like a mistake.
Betsy-Sue Christie Wiltshire, England, UK
• The jokes that small children make up. They are always far more unexpected than anything us adults, who have lost so much spontaneity, can come up with.
R2D2noisy via theguardian.com
• The complete Wilde quote, to my reading, flips the first part over: “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.” Ironic that only the
