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Do your remember that scene in the movie where Spartacus pushes the guard's head in the soup? I was like, "Wow, poor guy. That started out as "guards' suggestions for the Man in the Iron Mask." Then it became Spartacus, because he is more familiar. That was years in the making, that piece. JH: He's supposed to be nice, but he's a jerk. I kind of think, for me, the best comedy comes off mythic things.ĮSQ:I read "Guards' Complaints About Spartacus," which you recently wrote for The New Yorker, and you succeed in making him look like a dick. It's like dinosaurs and cowboys, that kind of thing. My style is pretty much little boy stuff. They'd say, "Oh, yeah, we had this guy from El Paso, but boy, he got freaked out and left." Southwesterners are kind of insecure and soft-spoken, so I tried to make a character the opposite of that. I have a bunch of friends that went to Harvard.
Somebody asked me recently, "What do you think people in the Southwest are like? What defines a Soutwesterner?" I said in my experience, they're kind of insecure.
I don't know.ĮSQ: I like your characters in that they are bastards who don't know they are being jerks. Maybe I made it too much like fudge instead of a brownie. JH: I almost wondered if I did it too much, because I would go back and go, "well, why not make this funny?" I guess it is a joke writer's tendency: instead of having a narrative, why not have a narrative and funny.
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It's unrelenting in that it's really just a series of jokes. It's more of a buzz.ĮSQ: So I liked the book. JH: It's more interesting because you can look around the subway car and see people. Come on, it takes an hour or so.ĮSQ: I guess in New York it just feels faster. It takes you another 25 minutes to get uptown or something.
You walk ten minutes to the subway station. I said it's fun to get around the subway in New York, but it's not, like, fast. JACK HANDEY: You can pretty much get anywhere in town in 15 minutes. Speaking from the kitchen in his spacious and pleasant home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Handey shared his thoughts on being a silly writer, his favorite SNL skits that never made it on the air, and how he became his own worst enemy during his time at the show.ĮSQUIRE.COM: I have been in Santa Fe for a few months now, and the one thing I am amazed about is that I haven't seen a single traffic jam. The book is filled with Handey's bizarre, childlike humor, and it is painfully funny. In his new book The Stench of Honolulu, a pigheaded egocentric joins his friend on a pursuit of the mythical Golden Monkey, all the while braving the horrendous smell of Hawaii, a lethal tribe, and a Nobel Prize-winning doctor who just wants the narrator to sign insurance forms. The former Saturday Night Live writer and creator of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey has spent the bulk of his career writing the musings of men who fear patricidal clowns or hate it when the man they're dragging behind their horse is reading a magazine.
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Jack Handey is a very nice guy who knows how to make a very lousy jerk sound funny.
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