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Jack Handey: “This Is No Game”
Pretty much, Jack Handey is the funniest man ever. He’s missed a time or two, but mostly he hits home runs. This short piece (though long by Handey’s standards) from the New Yorker is a home run. I laughed out loud nearly every other “paragraph.”
Patrick • Funnies • 07/18/06 • 6 commentsI went waltzing along, not caring where I stepped or if the other person even wanted to waltz.
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David • 07/23/06 • 9:58 AM:Funniest man ever? That’s highly debatable. Not that I’m disagreeing. How about Gary Larson, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Barry, and Andrew Dice Clay?
“This is No Game” was hilarious. I like the mummy in the Ohio museum one.
Here are two other Jack Handey short articles from the New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs section.
Ideas For Paintings
What I’d Say To The Martians
David • 07/23/06 • 10:06 AM:Here’s my favorite part from the Martians essay.
“If you keep me imprisoned long enough, eventually I will die. Because one thing you Martians do not understand is that we humans cannot live without our freedom. So, if you see me lying lifeless in my cage, come on in, because I’m dead. Really.”
David • 07/23/06 • 10:14 AM:Oh my goodness. The paintings one is the funniest, I think. I have tears rolling down my face. Be sure to love “Made You Look” and “The Death of Hercules”. Brilliant.
Patrick • 07/24/06 • 4:24 PM:Handey’s anticipation (and reversal of expectation with a touch of allusion to what everybody knows) is perfect.
David • 07/25/06 • 9:56 PM:I was just looking up some Jack Handey quotes and I came across this one - “I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.”
Dad • 07/26/06 • 10:42 PM:For some reason, I liked:
It’s so stupid it defies analysis. I mean, for parallelism, he could have substituted “banjo” for “guitar” and changed all the “o” sounds to “y” sounds and said, “…tobacky, … marshmellies, … banjy” but instead he ends up with “guitacky.” It strains the limits of your tollerance for stupidity to produce something that has no right to be funny, but is.
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