It’s sort of hard to be true to writing humor because you know how perishable it is.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 7, 2009.
The New Yorker staff writer Ian Frazier delights in transporting his readers into a bizarre comedic universe in which everyday absurdities are taken to their logical conclusions. “Coyote v. Acme,” for example, reimagines the Looney Tunes predator as a plaintiff in a lawsuit claiming repeated, grievous bodily harm. Frazier draws on a smattering of his most beloved humor pieces, including the legendary “Lamentations of the Father,” which somehow manages to nail both what it is like to be a parent and what it must be like to be God.
