ABSTRACT
In 1989, after studying and teaching about the benefits of humor for a decade, I took the show on the road by doing talks and seminars for business and medical groups. At that time, people like me were not called “humor consultants.” In that era of just in time and do more with less, claiming expertise on humor in the workplace would have been like saying that you manufacture square wheels. Humor is a kind of play, and for most people then – and quite a few even now – play is the opposite of work. So “humor in the workplace” sounded like a contradiction-in-terms.
