A Newsletter of Humorous Writing #20
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
For February 1-7, 2018, a roundup of the week's finest prose humor and prose humor-related news.
Hello and welcome to a Newsletter of Humorous Writing, the email propaganda arm of the acclaimed humorous readings show, An Evening of Humorous Readings. Let's get right to the writing, shall we? Why yes, that would be delightful. Straight to the writing with no delay, excellent. It's settled then. The writing, and hop to it. Here it is! The writing!
What We Enjoyed This Week
If Presidents Were Women by Blythe Roberson and Alexander B. Roberson (The New Yorker)
Man Prefers Comic Books That Don’t Insert Politics Into Stories About Government-Engineered Agents Of War (The Onion)
Thoughts of Background Characters in Street Fighter 2 by Mike Drucker (McSweeney's)
How I Became Successful By Clicking From Tab to Tab Until 6PM by Loretta Donelan (Reductress)
An Old Favorite
To the Class of 2050 by Jen Spyra (The New Yorker)
If you enjoyed this piece (which, ahem, premiered at one of our shows), then you won't want to miss our show coming up in March! Jen (a Friend of the Show) is going to be one of the guests. Scroll down for more details!
Updates From Your Hosts and Friends of the Show
This week we just focused on being good friends to each other. And at the end of the day, isn't friendship the most important project anyone can plug? (No. Please hire us to write more things.)
News About The Next Show
We are going to be back on March 12th at 8PM at the Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge! And we've already got three great guests lined up:
Riane Konc (The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Reductress)
Seth Reiss (Late Night With Seth Meyers, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Onion)
Jen Spyra (The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, The New Yorker, The Onion, McSweeney’s)
March is also the four year anniversary of the show, so we're hoping to make it extra-special in some way. Keep an eye on this space for updates, because we may have more guests or other fun stuff to announce!
Did we miss a piece you loved? Did you love a piece we mentioned? Let us know! This is an experiment and we're hoping to continue to make it better and better. If you have any thoughts, notes, wishes, or dreams for this newsletter, please respond to us or this email and tell us what the score is.
See you next week!
@brianagler, @lukevburns, & @jamesfolta
See you next week!
@lukevburns & @jamesfolta
We started this newsletter with our dear friend Brian Agler, and we want it to always honor his memory and his love of all things humorous. You can find our newsletter tribute to Brian here.
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