The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.The one-liners were to become Handey's signature work, notable for their concise humor and outlandish hypothetical situations.
Additional Deep Thoughts appeared in the October and November 1984 editions, as well as in the short-lived Army Man comedy magazine, while more appeared in 1988 in The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. In April 1984, National Lampoon published a piece titled "Deep Thoughts". Handey's "deep thoughts" were first published in an untitled essay in Omni magazine in November 1983. Handey returned to Saturday Night Live in 1985 as a writer.
DEEP THOUGHTS BY JACK HANDY SERIES
For several years, Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian sketch series Bizarre in 1980, the 1980 Steve Martin television special Comedy Is Not Pretty!, and Lorne Michaels' short-lived sketch show on NBC called The New Show in 1984. According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for Saturday Night Live (SNL) after Martin introduced him to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels. His first comic writing was with comedian Steve Martin. He lost the job after writing an article that, in his words, "offended local car dealerships". Handey's earliest writing job was for a newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News. Although many assume otherwise, Handey is a real person, not a pen name or character. He is best known for his "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey", a large body of surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts, and for his deadpan delivery. Jack Handey (born February 25, 1949) is an American humorist. 20th and 21st century American humorist Jack Handey
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