If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
Everybody is who he was in high school.
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.