With the monthly full money extra, I'm Chris Hill.

The end of the calendar year means certain traditions, one of which is Dave Barry's annual

year-and-review column.

And if you're not familiar with Dave Barry, he's written more New York Times best sellers

than most authors have written books.

He's won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

And what makes these accomplishments even more remarkable is that Dave Barry is a humor

writer.

He's one of the first guests we ever had on the monthly full money radio show when I

interviewed him back in 2010.

I asked for his thoughts on the biggest mistake people make when they attempt to write for

humor.

This is going to sound awfully self-evident, but it's not maybe self-evidence.

It's a lot of times when people write humor, it's not funny.

You're right.

That did sound self-evident.

But what I mean by that is I get a lot of, I've always said this, the only way you can

tell something funny is to give it to somebody else, not your mom.

And if that person thinks it's funny, then you can argue it's funny.

What you cannot do, but what people try to do, is say, this is funny.

I know it is.

If you don't laugh, it's because you're not a good enough reader or whatever.

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