The Comic Plato; or, why I have to sometimes stop running because I'm laughing so hard.

If you want an idea of how wickedly funny Plato could be, listen to the first few minutes of the LibriVox recording of Charmides as performed by Geoffrey Edwards. https://librivox.org/search?q=Charmides&search_form=advanced. Legend has it that Plato wanted to be a playwright; but Socrates refused to be his teacher unless Plato gave up on that ambition. Edwards's reading of Charmides suggests that Plato might have been a talented playwright, especially a comic playwright--and that he wasn't above poking a little fun at his erstwhile teacher.