'Away With Words' Guides Readers Through World Of Competitive Wordplay
Joe Berkowitz used to cringe when friends dropped a particularly painful pun — until he witnessed his first Punderdome competition.
Oscar Levant once said, “A pun is the lowest form of humor — when you don’t think of it first.” Author Joe Berkowitz used to feel that way, until he got sucked into the world of wordplay.
Before he knew it, the Fast Company writer was performing at Brooklyn’s Punderdome, and then at the Super Bowl of punning: the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships.
Berkowitz () writes about his year of punning in “,” and joins ‘s Robin Young to discuss his highs and lows in the company of the world’s best punsters.
