For March 11-17, 2026

Hello and welcome to A Newsletter of Humorous Writing, a roundup of the week's finest short humor pieces and funny articles, and a celebration of the fantastic writers who wrote them. Did you see that there was a meteor over Ohio on Tuesday? As confirmed by a bunch of observers and the perfectly named government website fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov, something 6 feet across and weighing 7 tons broke up 30 miles up in the sky. The problem we’re having is that “a meteor over Ohio” sounds like a song lyric, but we’re not exactly sure which musician’s it would be.

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