When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. I think it's part of the reason I enjoyed his material and the Far Side so much, in that there were such unusual premises, built around everyday ideas. Handey's very absurdest humor covered all topics, and pulled no punches. It wasn't until later that I could truly appreciate Jack Handey's work, but even as a kid it was all hysterical to me. To be fair, it was mostly Garfield and Peanuts books, but there were two books that I would go back to time after time: Gary Larson's Far Side and a "Deep Thoughts" book by Jack Handey. I thought, "maybe I should take something to read as well." Little did I know that the things that I would take with me would shape the type of comedy I was drawn to. I guess from watching an exorbitant amount of television, I knew that adults took the newspaper to the bathroom to pass the time. I'm not saying that when I was young that I was just running rampant telling fart jokes (ok, maybe every now and then), but rather for actual humor I would read in the bathroom. I'm going to go ahead and stop you right there, because I don't think you understand. When I was a kid, I had an affinity for bathroom humor.
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