Ed Tasca. A skill level of five! - Photo by Christopher Morgan
 
 

Ed Tasca

 
Award-winning humor writer (a winner in the Robert Benchley Society Humor-writing Contest two years in a row; 2006 Ojo Del Lago Humor Award; among others) whose work appears in humor publications in the U.S., Canada and Mexico (Publications include:  Espree Magazine, Voo Doo (MIT’s humor magazine), Entropy Magazine, London Free Press [Southern Ontario], Ojo del Lago [Mexico’s largest English-speaking magazine], among others). He has often said, “People become humorists because the job market for roofers is so overcrowded.” A Philly boy awed by the brilliance of our founding fathers, including the man who invented Philly steaks, claims he wanted to be a musician but felt totally inadequate when he heard neighbor Frankie Avalon for the first time.
 
Ed Tasca's new book, The Fishing Trip That Got Away."
 
 
 
A Toast from Ed
Maybe one day they’ll teach humor-writing in university. Curriculum should start with Alice in Wonderland. Finish with Robert Benchley's autobiography:
 
 
“Personally, I would rather have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.” - Stephen Leacock
 
About Alice in Wonderland, Robert Benchley wrote, “Of course, it is true that many present-day situations have parallels in the situations of the Alice books, but I like to believe that this is not because Carroll put sense into his nonsense but because the present-day situations are sheer nonsense in themselves. Why monkey around with Nonsense? It can stand well enough on its own feet.”