What is the first thing you can remember being funny? While we tend to remember things better as we age (until a certain age when it all begins to drop away again) in the early experiences of our lives many of the patterns are set for the rest of our lives. The weird mix of comedy coincidences in my childhood led to an explosion of interest in comedy at a very geeky level in adolescence. From P. L. Travers and Lewis Carroll to Monty Python and the Goons isn't as big a jump as it might seem at first.
