What a very annoying hobby!
I don't think so. As I said before, it fascinates me how someone can make a living by sitting on his backside all day and dreaming up cartoons.
How someone arrives at a gag is interesting but irrelevant to whether the end result is funny.
I have noticed that often Roger makes me laugh not with something new, but with something old said in a different way.
Someone else once said this to me and I take it as a compliment. Let's face it, we all know, for example, that Dennis is going to say something stupid at the end of a strip. I can only hope that it has a sufficient twist to be MILDLY surprising.