h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you want sarcasm, look up Don Rickles on You Tube*, especially his roast of Sammy Davis Junior (White man lynched by angry black mob, should have been the headline - everybody laughed except Cassius Clay).

Google: 25 Memorable Quotes from Don Rickles, On Fear and On What's Funny, to see his own attitude to his act, pre Politically Correct era

*You tube, is a Glasgwegian insult apparently.

In his later years, Rickles sometimes used Lorna Luft as his opening act.

Sarcasm often called the lowest form of wit.

But it is often by far the most effective

Is it even lower than puns?

Puns are considered a sign of high intelligence or at least a good knowledge of the language you are using

Yes, for anyone wondering about my recent spate of posts on various subjects and my journal entries, I am a class two genius on The Bromide - Von Helsinger scale (and 0.02 on the Wilsinger* modesty scale).

* That is of course the basis for the famous Australian folk song 'You'll come a Wilsinger Matilda with me.' Not sarcasm I know but self-mockery and depression because there is no whisky in the house at the moment.

It's hard to be humble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKWch_MNY0