I think up until the point when we started in the business which was in the early '70s most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it because one guy thinks...
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own but what it is I just don't know.
