What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats | Jack Handey

What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats | Jack Handey | Back off the bees, Jack Handey!

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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 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

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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Back off the bees, Jack Handey!

There are a lot of funny books out there. A couple even make you laugh. This is one of them. Except for the unfair shot he takes at bees (now going extinct - goddam you, Jack Handey!), this book is like premature ejaculation with the prettiest girl at the party- goes by quick but, by all the laughing, it seems like she had a really good time.

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!

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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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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.

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