Finally, a Funny Thing About the Funny Pages
Jesse · 02/13/06 05:49PMAdmit it, that's kind of hilarious.
Admit it, that's kind of hilarious.
So we actually planned to show up yesterday at No Pants 2006, in which a group of wacky kids were to ride the 6 train pantsless in a bravura bit of street theater. We weren't going to depants, of course, but we thought maybe we'd "happen" to be on the same train so that we could watch things as they happened. (It's rare that our voyeuristic and reportorial instincts so nicely overlap.) But then we suspected that a few people we knew might be among the depantsers, and we didn't want to be recognized. Plus the folks called and offered to buy us a late brunch. So we didn't go.
The Thurber Prize for American Humor was presented last night in a ceremony at — where else? — the Algonquin. The three finalists were America (The Book), by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum; The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, by Andy Borowitz; and Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, by Firoozeh Dumas. Adam Gopnik, one of the three judges, hosted the proceedings. A bookishly humorous (or perhaps humorously bookish?) spy reports:
The Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" debuts Sunday, and E&P has a preview of this tripartite humor section. It apparently starts on page 41, right after Safire, who we're sure can't be thrilled with the development. (After all these years, etymological humor won't seem nearly as funny anymore.) It contains: