On pages 24-26 of DRIVEN’s Comedy Issue you will find Elizabeth Walker’s entirely fictitious tale of a flirtatious writer and a mentally well-endowed professor-type discussing the seductive power of funny men.
To prepare that piece, Ms. Walker spoke to Dr. Pat Barclay, a researcher in evolutionary psychology at Cornell University. You will find an excerpt from their actual conversation below.
As a tie-in to The List: Divine Comedy on page 16 of DRIVEN’s Comedy Issue, we present more of the silver screen’s top comic actors musing on the serious pursuit of cheap laffs.
Due to an anticipated high demand, we proudly present, as a supplement to Knockworst on page 51 of DRIVEN’s Comedy Issue, even more completely original Knock-knock jokes of disproportionately dubious quality. For you to use at parties and such.
I was there the day funny died.
In 1990, as a member of Moxy Früvous, I was busking for chump change on Bloor Street in Toronto in paisley vest and pink tie, and funny music was alive and well. A year later Fruvous had a gold record in Canada — at the exact moment Nirvana went to number one with “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
