Mike Durrett
humor.guide@about.com

Mike Durrett is still laughing. He's been doing it since conception. We've got his sonograms. He was one wacky fetus.

Experience: Retired class clown, columnist, radio buffoon/writer, and contributor to Joan Rivers. He's ghostwritten for deejays throughout North America, including Howard Stern and Gary Owens, via industry joke services. Mike played the lead in a film, selected "Best Comedy" at the 1995 Golden Twinkies Awards in Hollywood. For fun and torment, he scripted, directed, and starred in five feature-length home movie comedies. He lives on the Net ("it's the gray stucco peecee on Spam Street"), first appearing as our Guide on April Fool's Day, 1998. Oh, he also had a Kool-Aid stand and sold seeds door-to-door.

Education: Mike majored in journalism at Georgia State University; but his real education came from television and movies, where he devoted himself to the master clowns, Jerry Lewis and W.C. Fields. His other prized teachers include Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jonathan Winters, Don Rickles, and Johnny Carson.

From Mike Durrett: "My job as Guide is not to tell you what's funny because you already know what's funny to you. My job is to help you discover things you might enjoy and ease your navigation to them. So, c'mon, let's go find the next laugh. Your shoe's untied."