Funny, but not as funny as Deep Thoughts

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	• What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats Jack Handey Hyperion, 2008 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Full of Funny!

If you're a fan of Jack Handey's work this is NOT to be missed. I bought this because of Handy's work with "Deep Thoughts" on Saturday Night Live after hearing a selected reading on the radio. Every page is laugh-out-loud funny. Top-rate absurdist humor. I love it!

What I'd Say To The Martians

Reading Jack Handey is a lot like picking up something that smells really weird and awful and then offering it to someone else and saying,"here,smell this". You just can't keep that kind of thing to yourself.
Some of the passages are a bit too long (kind of like Deep Thoughts meets Faulkner),but that's a small nit to pick with this otherwise excellent companion to Handey's previous works.
You're probably going to finish a segment,think something to yourself like,"this is really sick",and then make a copy and take it to work the next day so you can stick it under someone's nose and say,"here,read this".

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Laugh out loud hilarious

I heard Jack Handey reading the title piece on the radio while I drove home and couldn't stop laughing. It was more of a distraction than talking on a cell phone while driving. I apologize to anyone I may have offended with my driving.

So, I bought the book to read it safely on my plane ride home from NYC. I laughed out loud there, too. I apologize to anyone who was on the plane with me during that flight.

Handey has such a clear voice, and a definite style, I could hear him in my head. His work is deceptively simple; many folks think they could probably write like him. But, I suspect that is it rather difficult to seem so off-the-cuff funny and to set up each joke so expertly.

He is best known for his Deep Thoughts of which several are included in the book. But his longer pieces are really hysterical. The title piece is my all-time favorite.

The only drawback is that the book is rather short, so I blew through it before we hit Indiana, so I was forced to read People Magazine. What do I care about "The Hills"? Good grief. I'd rather re-read the book, of which I probably will do again and again.

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Funny, but not as funny as Deep Thoughts

This book contains previously published humor columns and some of Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts". Because the latter are so unbelievably funny, expectations for this book are very high. Too high perhaps, the longer pieces don't quite live up to it. However I will grant exception to the story "Stunned" which had me rolling with laughter. So it all depends. There is some humor-brilliancy here but not a lot, and the whole book is kinda short. You might consider borrowing it from a friend rather than buying it, although I suppose Mr. Handey would't agree.

I cried.

That's how funny this book is -- it made me laugh so hard that I cried. Not everyone will have the reaction that I did, but man, even if you laugh half as hard as I did, you'll have a good time. I've read a good third of these essays in the New Yorker as they came out, but it's lovely to read them in one sitting and have common threads pop up (funny cowboy dance, his so-called friend Don, etc.).

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Jack Handey is one of America's favorite humorists, from his New Yorker pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What I'd Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers with his incredible wit and wacky musings.

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