Chapter 9: Dave Barry on snappy satire, secret societies, and singing with Stephen King

<p >Do you remember the comedy dry zone?</p> <p >I’m talking about the barren, hardscrabble times when getting a free laugh from the comfort of your toilet wasn’t easy. Before Internet memes, before parody Twitter themes, before viral SNL skits, before ShowerThoughts subreddits, before LOLCats and even before giant email chats…</p> <p>… there was one man.</p> <p >The inimitable, indomitable, indefatigable Dave Barry.</p> <p>Beginning in 1983 and running for over twenty years, Dave Barry sent his syndicated humor column out to over 500 newspapers from his home base at The Miami Herald.</p> <p>Every single w...