{"id":5400,"date":"2013-07-16T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2013-07-16T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T18:55:57","slug":"it-isnt-just-useful-its-jack-handey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5400","title":{"rendered":"It Isn't Just Useful, It's Jack Handey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Handey is the gifted comic writer behind SNL’s “Deep Thoughts,” which ran in the 90s. He appears to be the closest embodiment of the comic ideal<\/a> most comedians have ever known. NY Times Writer Don Kois quotes Maria Semple, another comic writer, on what’s so great about Handey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is purity to his comedy,\u201d Semple told Kois. \u201cHis references are all grandmas and Martians and cowboys. It\u2019s so completely free from topical references and pop culture that I feel like everyone who\u2019s gonna make a Honey Boo Boo joke should do some penance and read Jack Handey.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said Handey writes real jokes, not just junk that “smells like a joke, but there\u2019s no actual joke there.”<\/p>\n

Handey had a license plate made for his famous SNL skit series: DEEPTHT. He would have it on his car today had his brother-in-law not asked him while he was mounting it, “Why does your license plate say \u2018Deep Throat\u2019?” Now it reads DPTHOTS. (via S.D. Smith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Handey is the gifted comic writer behind SNL’s “Deep Thoughts,” which ran in the 90s. He appears to be the closest embodiment of the comic ideal most comedians have ever known. NY Times Writer Don Kois quotes Maria Semple, another comic writer, on what’s so great about Handey. \u201cThere is purity to his comedy,\u201d … Continue reading It Isn't Just Useful, It's Jack Handey<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}