I disagree, on both counts. I still find the humor that I study funny: for me a major point of studying humor is to try to understand its funniness, both as a process and a product. And while human nature is remarkably similar across cultures, different cultures choose different objects of their humor and prefer different approaches among the many that are available. Just as every normal child begins to speak with every possible sound in his or her repertoire, but eventually specializes in those required for the mother tongue and loses facility with the others, so humor and jokes become specialized within their own cultural milieu, which has a particular (though not necessarily unique) cast of characters, situations, values, and history. Judith Lee Ohio University Athens, OH