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Make a few clicks on the internet and you’ll run across ten fake “Deep Thoughts,” and if you’re lucky, a few real ones. Our guest Jack Handey created the seminal Saturday Night Live interstitial segment and authored several book collections of the material. He also wrote numerous other classic Saturday Night Live sketches, from “Happy Fun Ball” to “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.” The past few years, he’s been writing in The New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs section, and these writings, plus work for Outside Magazine and other publications, have been collected in the hilarious “What I’d Say To The Martians: and Other Veiled Threats.”
Special thanks to the great public radio show Studio 360 for letting us use some audio of Jack reading pieces from the book.
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