Download or read book The Humorist written by Russell Kane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor, genius, critic. Murderer. Meet Benjamin Davids White, blessed since his infancy with an extraordinary gift: to understand humour at its deepest level. Yet Benjamin is cursed, too: in all his life, he has never laughed or smiled. At the height of his profession as a comedy critic, yet lacking any kind of human empathy, Benjamin discovers a formula that will allow him to construct the most powerful joke the world has ever known. A joke that has the power to kill...