Newsweek hack tries funny

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 4th, 2005

The following is from a Newsweek article by… well, let’s not even identify the guy so as not to embarass him:

Last time I was in a club was back in the pre-Seinfeld Era, when everyone and his brother would grab a mic, stand in front of a fake-brick wall, and make jokes that began, “D’ya ever notice how…” When I was in the clubs, comedians had to really work for their material, you know, by doing imitations of Scotty from Star Trek (“Aye cain’t do it, keptin!”) or making fun of how the teachers talked in the old Charlie Brown cartoons. Alas, not a golden age.

Somebody’s got issues! D’ya ever notice how people who are making a living in a business that’s supposed to require highly refined powers of observation actually have diminished powers of observation? Especially when it comes to standup? (One might counter that the poor thing is just trying to be… funny. All the more reason to be… funny, we say. We always marvel at the complex formula that says a writer who is trying to be funny is allowed to be cruel, ham-handed, obvious, inaccurate and/or misleading.

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