I liked the "voice" and the narration. I, too, was bothered by the "but that's not even true!" aspect of humor. I did think something that I've often come back to, which is that we keep trying to find ways to distinguish humans from other animal life, but ultimately the distinctions we make are unsupported by science - tool making, intelligence, humor, emotions, empathy, the ability to count, language, recognition of human words, empathy, pain ...