In a new article over at The Curator I attempt to put two things I love in conversation with one another: Jerry Seinfeld’s approach to comedy and  Dorothy Sayers’s understanding of work. The article begins as follows:

It all happens in the space of a tenth of a second: your zygomatic major muscle engages and exposes your teeth, fifteen muscles in your face contract, your epiglottis begins to obscure your larynx and disrupts your breathing, and you start to vocalize involuntarily— a laugh. [Read more…]