Ask me my favorite movie moment and I’ll tell you a scene from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Before this morning I would have told it like this: Phil Silvers and Jonathan Winters are in a private prop plane and the pilot has conked out. Silvers convinces Winters to take the wheel and [...]
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The craft of funny
May 16, 2010
11:22 pm
Filed under:america, beautiful joke movement, breaking the fourth wall, freud, humor, it's a mad mad mad mad world, light bulb jokes, madness-of-crowds story, microfiction, passe drinking humor, pedagogy, phil silvers, subjective reality, the old fashioned
“That’ll Be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents Please” by Myla Goldberg
Apr 07, 2010
10:31 pm
Filed under:"the world terrorist equation", accidental celebrities, america, celebrity, harpers, joyce carol oates, madness-of-crowds story, mass-media story, myla goldberg, the end of jay leno's career
Published in Harpers, March 2010. Story available here (registration required). Myla Goldberg’s “That’ll Be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents Please” is a story about lost youth and lost glamour, and while we’re at it, it’s a story about American free enterprise. Over the course of five pages we’re introduced to two residents of a small [...]
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