I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have...
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7 make breakfast and go to work. Or come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.