  urlLink MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Who needs enemas? : "But puns are so last century. In the age of darker than dark, bitter without the sweet comedy, the sort of comedy in which I so often work, puns are simply not done. They're considered cheap, cheesy and a bit juvenile. Some might argue that that's what makes them funny. Puns are, after all, pretty harmless faux-confusions of two words that sound alike; surely hating them is... well, it's homophone-bia. But trust me, I write from experience. " 
