When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, Jack Handey Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. "I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick.Previously, the Handeys had lived in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Jack Handey lives with his wife, Marta Chavez Handey, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His family later moved to El Paso, Texas, where Handey attended Eastwood High School (where he was editor of Sabre, the school newspaper) and the University of Texas at El Paso. Handey was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1949. On JHandey's first novel, The Stench of Honolulu, was released. The Associated Press critic Jake Coyle wrote, "With absurdist musings such as these, Handey has established himself as the strangest of birds: a famous comedian whose platform is not the stage or screen, but the page." Handey subsequently became a regular contributor to The New Yorker Shouts and Murmurs section. In early April 2008, Handey published his first collection of magazine humor pieces, "What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats". Other Handey creations that appeared on SNL include the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, "Fuzzy Memories" which depicted reenactments of a twisted childhood memory and aired in the late 1990s, and the short-lived "My Big Thick Novel", which were spoken excerpts from a very long book in the style of "Deep Thoughts" and which aired during the 2001–03 seasons of SNL. The one-liners were to become Handey's signature work, notable for their concise humor and their outlandish hypothetical situations. Additional Deep Thoughts appeared in the October and November 1984 editions as well as in the short-lived comedy magazine Army Man, while more appeared in 1988 in The Santa Fe New Mexican. In April 1984, National Lampoon published the first of Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Handey returned to Saturday Night Live in 1985 as a writer.
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According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for Saturday Night Live after Martin introduced Handey to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels.įor several years Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian sketch series Bizarre in 19 TV special Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty and Lorne Michaels' short-lived sketch show on NBC called The New Show in 1984. He lost the job, in his words, after writing "an article that offended local car dealerships". His first comic writing was with comedian Steve Martin. Handey's earliest writing job was for a newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News. Although many people assume otherwise, Handey is a real person, not a pen name or character. He is best known for his "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey", a large body of surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts. Jack Handey (born February 25, 1949) is an American humorist.
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