They're good editors, too. We don't need to change them. We just need to add one or two more senior editors who have a taste for the light.

Part of the trouble is (seriously) that it's much easier to get a consensus on the quality of a serious piece of work or something that's adventure-based than on anything that's funny. I bet it's easier to discount the humour as personal taste only, and dismiss it from a year's best when there are so many good stories competing for space.