It's the kind of thing a junior-year philosophy student would be asked when studying ethics or philosophy. Six Million Dead. Humor is obviously tantamount to much of your work. The English like to hug themselves in a very self-congratulatory manner with this thought that Americans simply have a gland missing when it comes to irony. That's a very Wildean quality.
People ignore sometimes how linguistically precise the great American comedians are.
American humor can be brilliant. When it comes to literature , though, in the desire of American novelists to prove their literary place in the pantheon next to the Flauberts and the Dickenses, they forget that Dickens and Joyce were humorists, comic novelists. Jane Austen was a comic novelist. Shakespeare was primarily a comic writer. Americans think the more serious you are, the more artistic you are.