# The latest Jack Handey piece. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314 "2006-01-10T15:20:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/1 "2006-01-10T15:20:56Z")
This is a link to the latest Jack Handey piece in the New Yorker. I expect about 2% of the population to find it funny. But, hopefully that 2% finds it very funny. [Link](http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/060109sh_shouts). I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/2 "2006-01-10T15:28:43Z")
> [@](#): > > You will never grasp the quiet joy of holding your own baby, or the quiet comedy of handing him back to his “father.” I’m 2%. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/3 "2006-01-10T15:32:43Z")
Can’t…breathe… ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/4 "2006-01-10T15:35:50Z")
> [@](#): > > You will never know what it’s like to work on a farm until your hands are raw, just so people can have fresh marijuana. Or what it’s like to go to a factory and put in eight long hours and then go home and realize that you went to the wrong factory. Me also. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/5 "2006-01-10T15:45:37Z")
I thought that was very funny. I figure more than 2% find if funny, but perhaps the people I hang out with aren’t quite representative of the general population. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/6 "2006-01-10T15:53:56Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > I thought that was very funny. I figure more than 2% find if funny, but perhaps the people I hang out with aren’t quite representative of the general population. Yeah, 2% seems pretty low. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/7 "2006-01-10T15:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > This isn’t tiddlywinks, where you flip your tiddly over another player’s tiddly and an old man winks at you because he thought it was a good move. ha. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/8 "2006-01-10T16:46:50Z")
Absolutely brilliant. This transcends ordinary humor and has moved into the realm of sublime poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/9 "2006-01-10T16:48:54Z")
98% here. OK, I smirked a couple of times, but this is not funny. It reads like a cross between Monty Python and Dave Berry, leaving out the funny bits from both. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/10 "2006-01-10T16:56:24Z")
Righteous ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/11 "2006-01-10T17:02:20Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I expect about 2% of the population to find it funny. But, hopefully that 2% finds it very funny. I’m sure 2% of the population will find this very funny. But what about the other 98% of us who don’t find it very funny at all? What about the other 98% of us who realize that it is not a game, like when you go to a party and make clothes out of toilet paper to see who made the best looking tp clothes, then end up wearing the toilet paper home because you went to the party naked in the first place. Not a funny game where you toss rocks at baby birds trying to knock them out of the nest until the pet store manager asks you to leave. …wait, he said it was a game didn’t he, oh well, in that case I found it hillarious. Thanks, that made my day 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/12 "2006-01-10T17:15:26Z")
I love Jack Handey. Jack Handey, will you marry me? (could you imagine the vows?) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/13 "2006-01-10T17:21:37Z")
I found it more than 2% funny. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/14 "2006-01-10T17:30:05Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > 98% here. > > OK, I smirked a couple of times, but this is not funny. It reads like a cross between Monty Python and Dave Berry, leaving out the funny bits from both. I guess me too, I almost laughed maybe 3 times. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/15 "2006-01-10T17:39:12Z")
I’m with the 98 percenters – who make up 20% of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/16 "2006-01-10T17:56:25Z")
I guess I’m also in the 98% group. Some of the lines made me laugh, but an article composed of disjointed one-liners is not, as a whole, funny. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/17 "2006-01-10T18:33:31Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > 98% here. > > OK, I smirked a couple of times, but this is not funny. It reads like a cross between Monty Python and Dave Berry, leaving out the funny bits from both. Ditto. Jack Handey has written some immortal (and, more importantly, funny) aphorisms, but alas, this didn’t do it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/18 "2006-01-10T18:40:41Z")
I kept waiting for the punchline. It never came. It was entertaining at least. But it was no Jack Handey. Oh, wait. Yes it was. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/19 "2006-01-10T18:45:03Z")
I heard that voice from SNL as I was reading it. It was mildly amusing. I’m at that W place so I couldn’t laugh out loud. But I found I didn’t want to. I smiled. 's’all. But I will be checking back there from time to time to see what esle JH has to say. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314/20 "2006-01-10T18:59:32Z")
It was clever in spots, but more cute than actually funny. It was okay at best. Why do you think that only 2% of the population would enjoy it? Seems that most of the people here liked it just fine. But that’s okay, I’m used to being one of the odd ones. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-jack-handey-piece/339314.md?page=2)