12/19/2023 0 Comments Jack handy jokes![]() ![]() I fear that they will get somewhat lost in a time where people get so excited about Digital Shorts, Justin Timberlake, cowbells, and Little Sleuths (ok, maybe not little sleuths). His segments were an iconic portion of a very solid era of Saturday Night Live. ![]() I can only hope that Handey, who just released his first novel, "The Stench of Honolulu" in 2013, will be around for the SNL40 celebration. The trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out Other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing Is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Think like dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be That's just too much." If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you If you're a circus clown, and you have a dog that you use in yourĪct, I don't think it's a good idea to also dress the dog up like aĬlown, because people see that and they think, "Forgive me, but But in 1985 Handey went to SNL where he was a writer and a co-producer of the show. Martin introduced Handey to Lorne Michaels in the 80s, and began writing on other television shows other than SNL. Handey's first comedic writing job was with Steve Martin. While not sketches that people would normally go out of their way to show you when talking about Saturday Night Live, they were still absurd in the way that Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts" segments were. Handey had other credits on Saturday Night Live, including bringing us classics as Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer and Toonces: The Cat Who Could Drive a Car. Iron of justice." Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed,īecause they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could Iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, IĬould just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleckĬowboy said something like, "Hey look. If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my ![]() How much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at They eat fish." Sure they eatįish, if that's all you give them. It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook upĪbout a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, "YouĬan't throw chicken to the dolphins. But, Jack Handey is indeed a real person. They were so popular that they would air multiple throughout the episode, and even make people wonder if Jack Handey was an actual person, or if it was just a pen name for some SNL writer. Phil Hartman introduced each segment, then Jack Handey would read off one of his surreal statements do the delight of the audience. Between 19, Handey's "Deep Thoughts" segments were aired between major sketches in the program. Say, "Think again, bat man." I later learned that Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey had been a segment on Saturday Night Live. ![]() Might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just Pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. You're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner hasīeen turned into Dracula. But then we had some growing up to do.įear can sometimes be a useful emotion. It stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all Spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where Nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman We'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. I think it's part of the reason I enjoyed his material and the Far Side so much, in that there were such unusual premises, built around everyday ideas. Handey's very absurdest humor covered all topics, and pulled no punches. It wasn't until later that I could truly appreciate Jack Handey's work, but even as a kid it was all hysterical to me. To be fair, it was mostly Garfield and Peanuts books, but there were two books that I would go back to time after time: Gary Larson's Far Side and a "Deep Thoughts" book by Jack Handey. I thought, "maybe I should take something to read as well." Little did I know that the things that I would take with me would shape the type of comedy I was drawn to. I guess from watching an exorbitant amount of television, I knew that adults took the newspaper to the bathroom to pass the time. I'm not saying that when I was young that I was just running rampant telling fart jokes (ok, maybe every now and then), but rather for actual humor I would read in the bathroom. I'm going to go ahead and stop you right there, because I don't think you understand. When I was a kid, I had an affinity for bathroom humor. ![]()
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