My Hometown: Loyal Jones. The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with other people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.--James Thurber. The oral tradition is said to be in bad shape, what with TV, video movies, endless sports events, and other stuff more threatening to the human race.