Some comedians are storytellers, taking audiences on a journey through constructed experiences, finding the humor in loose observations. Some tackle political issues head-on, pointing out egregious inconsistency, which can engage an audience enough to laugh at hypocrisy. Others form bits, easily digestible amounts of verbiage on one topic, like Seinfeld on horses or George Carlin on the difference between baseball and football. But on the comedic spectrum, the form drying up due to lack of concision is the one-liner. Jack Handey is the torchbearer for that genre, as well as one of the few comedians who works almost exclusively in print.
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