If you don’t find them funny, then let’s just call it art.” Excerpted from ‘If It’s Not Funny It’s Art” by Demetri Martin (Grand Central Publishing) You often use a drawing pad on stage.

Is modern art funny? My answer is yes – simply because I can think of some famous 20th-century works that seem to be genuinely and wholeheartedly funny.

LOS ANGELES - Art Linkletter, whose "People Are Funny" and "House Party" shows entertained millions of TV viewers in the 1950s and '60s with the funny side of ordinary folks and who remained ...