Maeve Higgins: Celebrating the sheer silliness of our otherwise banal existence

I have been reminded how funny it can be to commit yourself to deliberately small and pointless actions

Every issue bar one of Jennifer Mills News was on display at the art exhibition in Brooklyn.

I HAVE a deep respect for silliness. Someone who makes me laugh without attaching any meaning to what they’ve said is positively heroic. And there is nothing I admire more than commitment to a bit.

There is such power in nonsense, in resisting using a joke to parlay into something that might mean something, in stopping yourself from ever uttering the words “but seriously, folks”.