Word: humorously
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Following this line of suggestion, it is not difficult to understand the secret of Beethoven's appeal for an acquaintance with his works will corroborate the statement that Beethoven is first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
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...thing that works more harm than it affords amusement. Internal criticism of whatever nature is always permissible, but amusing oneself at the public expense of others is particularly bad taste. A case in point is the memorable Lampoon issue of last fall embodying what the editors thought legitimate humor. In the Tiger it would have been, but that would have been a laughing with rather than at. The Daily Princetonian...
Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...