By Sarah Ball
Yeah, yeah, yeah—brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. Not to take issue with Shakespeare, but it's more than long-windedness that kills a joke. It takes no words to dumbly smash a watermelon, or to grunt in mockery of the speech-impaired. There are just some people, of few words or many, that have the remarkable gift of making us not laugh. Lest they toil without recognition of their skills, here's our hat tip to a dirty dozen of the world's least funny comedians:
