I’ve written about humour in fantasy before here, and how it can be a double edged sword when it comes to blurb and Choosing the Best Browse Categories on Amazon. But when you write a funny anything, do you go for the laughs and tag on a genre, or do you try and treat that genre with respect, and dial in the humour?

You see, there’s funny, and then there’s taking the Michael big time. Call a film Killer Klowns from Outer Space and it better be good or it might fall flat on its face (into a cus...