Jack Handey

...Handey's thoughts get deeper, longer in new hardcover book | Seattle Times Newspaper Jack Handey's thoughts get deeper, longer in new hardcover book He's not just a disembodied voice on "SNL" reruns: Jack Handey is a real-life...

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...sensitivity about racism? Brewskies won't settle those questions, larger ones about race, or any "deep thoughts," as Handey calls the whimsical one-liners he used to narrate on "Saturday Night Live." After the beer, there are still...

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...say _ but not rule," he says. 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. It's been years since his "Deep...

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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Keyrock - known as the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer - was a recurring character created by Jack Handey and played by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live from 1991 through 1996. He was a caveman with the beetling brows of a...

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...comic writing was with comedian Steve Martin. According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for Saturday Night Live in 1975 after Martin introduced Handey to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels. For several years Handey worked on other...

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