“It’s fantastically difficult to define the comic novel: what I may think is funny, others may not. I think it’s difficult in the main for comic novels to win prizes because comedy is an upsetting thing. To win a prize you have to have a panel of people who will agree and people rarely agree on comedy. No one says that about a serious novel, no one questions how serious it is. Comedy makes people disagree more than any other form so therefore there will always be a debate.”
British novelist and 2010 Man Booker Prize winner, Howard Jacobson
(Source: TIME)
