Can graduate school be funny?

As shown by the many links and sources on the syllabus for this topic there are lots of places one can find humor specifically about or for graduate students. One thing that I noticed is that much of the humor is making fun or graduate students or parts of graduate student life. I particularly enjoyed reading the top ten lists on the Graduate Student Humor Page ( http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danhorn/gradhumor.html). The article on correlation and causation (http://www.obereed.net/hh/correlation.html) was also entertaining, particularly because one of my classes this semester has discussed how correlation does not equal causation so I could directly equate the article to what I am doing in my classes. Another site I liked looking at for humor about graduate students was PhD Comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/aboutcomics.html) or Piled Higher and Deeper. These comics were particularly fun because I had seen some of them before, but had never actually been to the webpage and did not realize how many comics there actually were.

For my self when I am in the mood for something humorous I usually do not look for something that is directly applicable to graduate students. Instead I will often reread some of my favorite fantasy books that also have comic parts or just reread the funny parts of some of my favorite books. For instance, when I want to read a book that has some comedy I will often reread Patricia C. Wrede's The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Reading books is probably the way I find humor the most often although I occasionally read comics in newspapers and now I will probably start going and looking at PhD comics more often as well.