And Now . . . Jack Handy

It’s relieving to know that not only is the man still alive, but that he is in fact real.

The New Yorker has published Jack Handy, former skit-writer for Saturday Night Live, most famous for his creation of Deep Thoughts, several times in the past few years.

In last week’s issue, The New Yorker published “How Things Even Out,” a short including some Handy philosophy in the “Shouts & Murmurs” section.

“Things are evening out all the time, if you take time to notice, like I do. . . . You might hear that some guy you know is having a party, so you call him up, but he says there’s no party. But then you call back, using a different voice, and suddenly there is a party.

One day, you ask people to take a look at a skin rash you have. Then, a few days later, you’re looking at their rashes. You send someone a death threat and then, mysteriously, the police come to your house and threaten you.”

The story (about a 5 minute read), is not as powerful, perhaps, as some of his most famous one-liners, but for the Deep Thoughts fans out there, it is relieving to know that this man is still around, and has not past as SNL has over the years.

For those unfamiliar with Jack Handy, he is comparable today to Dimitri Martin, who writes and performs for The Daily Show. Handy first began publishing his Deep Thoughts in National Lampoon Magazine, 1984.

Get your Deep Thought of the day, read by Jack Handy, HERE.