Scientists say they have greatly advanced the possibility of being able to reproduce the body's organs via the use of 3D printing. As his excellent memoir Born Standing Up attests, Martin found it difficult to keep up with the demands of fans and arena tours — but his work remains a high-water mark for sweet, wacky, playful absurdity with a lot of showmanship behind it. Pizza Hut is selling a pizza for those who want to break up with their better half on Valentine's Day. Criminals are trying to trick people by using old love letters. In coming up with our version of a comic canon, we weighed artistic merit, technical proficiency and sense of timing, quality of their written material, their delivery and degree of influence — and often, their sense of what makes something, anything, funny.
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