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The General And The Hockey Puck
This post: Is about comedy Is mostly about Don Rickles, who is alive Is partially about Buster Keaton, who is not alive Is tangentially about artistic sacrifice and revenge Is slightly speculative and probably pretentious as all get out Has a footnote about Vietnam How did Buster Keaton feel? I ask this question because earlier [...]
Postmodern Mumbling
When Mike Judge was on Fresh Air in August, Terry Gross asked him how he came up with voices for King of the Hill characters. She called Boomhauer’s stream-of-consciousness blurts “A postmodern mumble.” I laughed at the description, but when I watched a rerun of King of the Hill later, I almost saw where Gross [...]
Now THAT’S Funny
When I saw an ad for And Here’s the Kicker in Vanity Fair, I didn’t pay much attention. I was interested in the idea of a book that was “Conversations with top humor writers about their craft,” but I was worried that the interviews would be Vanity Fair throwaways. Then I heard author Mike Sacks [...]