What I found most interesting about Baker's style was how he attempted to compliment his humor. He attempted to change from simply being funny through Howie's enthusiasm for, and over-complication of every day things combined with his ridiculous trains of thought, to a completely random, dry humor. This kind of relates to Mr. Mitchell's comment about how Baker is sort of like a stand up comedian, in that he takes an idea and just builds on it and runs with it to see where it takes him, in this case he's complimenting that with something similar to gallows humor.
An example of this is Howie's table of thoughts and how often they occur on pages 127 and 128. In his list of thoughts he mentions the "urge to kill" occurring multiple times. This thought is obviously supposed to be funny, and is a perfect example of this gallows humor-like voice from Baker. This statement is very dry but also too negative (especially for Howie) to be serious coming from a mentally stable person like Howie.
I found sections of almost Kurt Vonnegut-esque humor like this both interesting and confusing because it seemed out of place at the same time as fitting with Baker's goal of comedy. It really didn't seem to fit my image of Howie at all and I found that confusing, but it was also revealing to me - we don't really know that much about Howie's personality other than his enthusiasm for life, so perhaps this gallows humor matches him perfectly.
