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Jack Handey
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Jack Handey Looks Back on Working with Phil Hartman on ‘SNL’“Several times since Phil’s death, I’ve had the same dream about him: I am back in the studio, working on Saturday Night Live, and Phil is […]
By Megh Wright
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Reading Jack Handey’s Lost Screenplay ‘Harv the Barbarian’
“The Script Pile” is a biweekly column on Splitsider that takes a look at the screenplays for high-profile movie and TV comedies that never […]
By Bradford Evans
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The Best Jack Handey Joke EverMark Peters has a new column over at McSweeneys called “Best Joke Ever,” where he’ll look at the greatest jokes from various funny people. In […]
By Elise Czajkowski
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‘The NY Times’ Has an Excellent Jack Handey Profile TodayLongtime SNL writer Jack Handey, who’s responsible for recurring sketches like “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” and “Deep Thoughts,” is the subject of […]
By Bradford Evans
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Read Two Poems Jack Handey Wrote for His Pet Rat“Squeaky was the sole survivor of an owl massacre.”
By Steve Marsh
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Talking to Jack Handey About His New Novel ‘The Stench of Honolulu’, Deep […]I’ve read Hemingway, Faulkner, and McCarthy, but I say without facetiousness that Jack Handey has made a bigger impact on my writing than any […]
By Bryan Bierman
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Watch Two More Animated Excerpts from Jack Handey’s New Novel
Longtime SNL writer Jack Handey, is releasing his first novel, The Stench of Honolulu, on Tuesday, and yesterday, he released two animated […]
By Bradford Evans
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Watch a Trailer for Jack Handey’s New Novel
Beloved SNL writer Jack Handey, who created sketches like “Deep Thoughts,” “Toonces the Cat,” and “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer,” is set to release […]
By Bradford Evans
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Jack Handey’s First Novel Comes Out in JulyBeloved humorist Jack Handey (SNL’s Deep Thoughts, The New Yorker), has written his first novel. Entitled The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical […]
By Bradford Evans
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The First Splitsider Comedy Book Club Book Is…And Here’s The Kicker by Mike Sacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHTK won the popular comment vote, narrowly beating Chris Gethard’s A Bad Idea I’m About to […]
By Jesse David Fox