Jack Handey lives with his wife, Marta Chavez Handey, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He graduated from Eastwood High School in El Paso, Texas, where he was the editor of the school newspaper, Sabre. Handey was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1949. On July 16, 2013, Handey's first novel, The Stench of Honolulu, was released by publisher Grand Central.
Associated Press critic Jake Coyle wrote, "With absurdist musings such as these, Handey has established himself as the strangest of birds: a famous comedian whose platform is not the stage or screen, but the page." Handey subsequently became a regular contributor to The New Yorker Shouts and Murmurs section. In early April 2008, Handey published his first collection of magazine humor pieces, What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats.
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He said, "It was just one of those free association ideas you write down and look at later and think, 'Maybe. Handey, who lived with a real cat by the same name, once said he could not remember exactly how he dreamed up the premise. In 1992 NBC aired a half-hour Toonces special. The recurring skit originated in 1989 with Steve Martin and Victoria Jackson as the crash-prone kitten's owners. Handey is also credited with creating Toonces the Driving Cat, the cat who could drive a car, although not very well. Other Handey creations that appeared on SNL include the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, "Fuzzy Memories" which depicted reenactments of a twisted childhood memory and aired in the late 1990s, and the short-lived "My Big Thick Novel", which were spoken excerpts from a very long book in the style of "Deep Thoughts" and which aired during SNL's 2001–03 seasons. They became an enduring feature of SNL, which often had multiple Thoughts in each episode, and made Handey a well-known name. Handey then read the Deep Thought as the text to it scrolled across the screen. Hartman intoned "And now, Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey.", and peaceful easy listening music played while the screen showed soothing pastoral scenes, much like a New Age relaxation video. Introduced by Phil Hartman and read live by Handey (neither actually appeared on screen), the one-liners proved to be extremely popular. Some of these segments appeared in the compilation video of that program, Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce.īetween 19, Deep Thoughts were shown during commercial breaks on The Comedy Channel with Handey's narration.īetween 19, Saturday Night Live included Deep Thoughts on the show as an interstitial segment (between sketches).
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Handey's work next showed up in the Michael Nesmith-produced TV series Television Parts in the format which later became famous on Saturday Night Live (though in Television Parts, Nesmith provided the narration).
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. 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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