King's books often seem completely devoid of any humor. My impression is that humor plays an important bonding role between the characters in his books - often sharing some type of inside joke - but from the readers perspective there is rarely anything that comes across as intentionally humorous. Not a criticism but just an observation. King is obviously not a humorist like Richard Russo but I was trying to think of even a single instance where there is some type of humor directed to the reader. There might have been some more of that in MrM trilogy. I have seen him many times in person where he is very funny. So it stands in contrast to his books.