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Sites for Sore Eyes
Whether you own every Dave Barry collection ever printed, or remember with fondness Erma Bombeck or just have a jones for a quick dose of Amy Chavez (who?), if you love a good humor column, you’re at the right place.
160 Featherbrains Flocking Together
The NetWits are a group of Internet humorists. Over 160 humor writers and cartoonists have gathered in an effort to end world grimness. It is sort of like a United Nations meeting during a nitrous oxide leak. The NetWits are now world-wide: Australia, United States, Canada, the U.K., New Zealand, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Botswana and yes, even Detroit.
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Dave Barry - Plain and Simple, One of the Best!
When most people think "humor column," they think "Dave Barry." Actually, first they think, "Someone gets paid to write that?" and THEN they think "Dave Barry," but you get the idea.

Barry is a columnist with the Miami Herald, and is syndicated everywhere that prints words on paper. This is the official Miami Herald archive of about 100 or so of Barry's columns, including some recent ones.

(By the way, while you're there, you might want to hop on by the Dave Barry Discussion Board.)
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So You Want To Write Your Own Humor Column?
Where, oh where, I hear you ask, can I get some information on becoming a humor columnist myself?

This is a site with some basic essays for a variety of writing careers. On this page, skim down to the fourth section and you'll find nine mini-essays on column writing. The essays are about column writing in general. Follow the advice, but remember to add your sense of humor to your column and you'll be on your way.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum
No one wants to be a lonely fan of humor columnists. What's so funny about that? Well, with this list of forums, email lists and resources, you'll get that warm glow of being involved in something that many other people are using as well. It's like having your own intern!
Who Wants to be Dave Barry?
If you've ever read one of Dave Barry's columns and said to yourself, "Is THAT all it takes to win a Pulitzer Prize? My dog could write that!", here's your chance to prove it.

Sort of.

AutoDave, the automated Dave Barry column generator, asks you a series of questions, and then spits out a Dave Barry-style column using your answers.

Fill it out and print it. Your mom will be proud.
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Learn a Skill You'll Want to Use
The HumorWriting discussion list, delivered through eGroups, is a combination of two things: a place for humor writers to discuss humor writing, and a place for people who would like to become humor writers to learn about it from the people who already do it.

Put together by Chandra Clarke, a well-known humor columnist and author of a humor writing course at digitaledu.com, you might want to sign up and take a look. The volume of email isn't too high, but it's quality, not quantity.
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