A Heartbreaking Joke of Staggering Genius
Mark Peters of McSweeney's positively reviews Jack Handey's The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure, en route to an in-depth analysis of the joke he considers Handey's greatest:
- I came here in peace, seeking gold and slaves.
Peters: "MacGyver-like, Handey made a nuclear bomb of comedy out of the verbal equivalent of a paper clip."
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posted by The Other Front at 7:30 PM
2 Comments:
But, for whatever reason, I didn't laugh.
Yeah, me either. What's up with that?
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