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Summary: Funniest Man ever....
Review: enough said, jack handey is a genius, what else could you want?!
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Summary: Handey makes you laugh AND think(or the other way around)
Review: Modern "philosophizer" and Saturday Night Live scribe Jack Handey's second installment in the Deep Thoughts series falls short of the author's own criteria for literary greatness ("at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid" says Handey of the ideal novel), but it is nonetheless a consistently funny collection of a unique brand of humor. Handey's offbeat musings, familiar to viewers of early 1990's SNL, are somewhat more sophisticated than fortune cookies, much more readable than Nietsche or Chomsky, and funnier than all of the above. The book contains close to 100 Deep Thoughts, ranging from some which provoke a thoughtful chuckle to others which will have you laughing out loud before you even finish reading them. If you are a Handey fan, chances are you already have this book. If you are unfamiliar with Deep Thoughts, I recommend you check out this book for a simple but hearty laugh - it is a nice contrast to the political satire, funny golf books and comic strip collections that dominate humor publishing. For as Handey says, "Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis." In short, it's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more books by Jack Handey. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting those books.
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Summary: Handey makes you laugh AND think(or the other way around)
Review: Modern "philosophizer" and Saturday Night Live scribe Jack Handey's second installment in the Deep Thoughts series falls short of the author's own criteria for literary greatness ("at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid" says Handey of the ideal novel), but it is nonetheless a consistently funny collection of a unique brand of humor. Handey's offbeat musings, familiar to viewers of early 1990's SNL, are somewhat more sophisticated than fortune cookies, much more readable than Nietsche or Chomsky, and funnier than all of the above. The book contains close to 100 Deep Thoughts, ranging from some which provoke a thoughtful chuckle to others which will have you laughing out loud before you even finish reading them. If you are a Handey fan, chances are you already have this book. If you are unfamiliar with Deep Thoughts, I recommend you check out this book for a simple but hearty laugh - it is a nice contrast to the political satire, funny golf books and comic strip collections that dominate humor publishing. For as Handey says, "Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis." In short, it's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more books by Jack Handey. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting those books.
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Summary: Disneyland burned down...
Review: When I was a kid, my friend's parents watched a bit too much SNL. They saw the Deep Thought about a parent telling their child that they were going to Disneyland, and then taking the child to a burned out field and telling him that Disneyland burned down. They thought it would be fun to try that in real life. That was my intro to Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Funny as that little stunt was NOT when I was six, I look back on it now and laugh (I don't know if my childhood friend feels the same -- she got pregnant at 16 and ran off with a motorcycle gang...wonder if that's a "blame the parents" situation). Anyway, we used to tape SNL just to play back the Deep Thoughts and crack up. Jack Handey's work has gone slightly downhill with the advent of "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel," but this stuff is classic. Type some of them up and hang them around your desk if you work in one of those joyless, laugh-free places -- they're guaranteed to induce a chuckle from even the most stoic. And, you'll have something to smile at the next time the British Monarchs make some kind of appearance, when you remember "Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat."
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Summary: Disneyland burned down...
Review: When I was a kid, my friend's parents watched a bit too much SNL. They saw the Deep Thought about a parent telling their child that they were going to Disneyland, and then taking the child to a burned out field and telling him that Disneyland burned down. They thought it would be fun to try that in real life. That was my intro to Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Funny as that little stunt was NOT when I was six, I look back on it now and laugh (I don't know if my childhood friend feels the same -- she got pregnant at 16 and ran off with a motorcycle gang...wonder if that's a "blame the parents" situation). Anyway, we used to tape SNL just to play back the Deep Thoughts and crack up. Jack Handey's work has gone slightly downhill with the advent of "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel," but this stuff is classic. Type some of them up and hang them around your desk if you work in one of those joyless, laugh-free places -- they're guaranteed to induce a chuckle from even the most stoic. And, you'll have something to smile at the next time the British Monarchs make some kind of appearance, when you remember "Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat."
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