Meet Andy Borowitz

I “met” Andy Borowitz years ago because I read The New Yorker, but just recently (earlier today) I learned that he is “really big.” Andy got the first ever National Press Club’s award for humor. The WSJ gave him a page-one piece, and it helped get him half a million subscribers to his site “The Borowitz Report.”

He worked on “All in the Family” for crying out loud not to mention movies, plays, and books. He’s an actor. He went to Harvard. AND graduated! (Link to helpful Borowitz piece for Harvard wanna-be’s at graduation time!)

And I just thought he was a funny guy who managed to get submissions “like magic” into The New Yorker! But seriously, Andy’s writing makes me laugh out loud. His “Report” offers a daily 250-word satire piece, usually based on politics or the news.  Just read through the headlines and slugs and you’ll see what I mean!

My favorites are the more social writings like “Hot or Not,” which my students always loved and a faculty member threw into my waste basket. Or the historic work on trailblazers like Pavlov’s brother.

The “Report” is archived fully, but older New Yorker essays, mostly from “Shouts and Murmurs” are published as abstracts and are available for a price.  Below I’ve linked a few more COMPLETE ones to get you started so I can create more fans for somebody else!

Remember all that stuff you were going to quit doing after January 1? Well it’s May 20, and I bet you are saying, “Resolutions? What resolutions?”

Tired of political “pundits?” Well, the “Father of our Country”  was also the Father of Punditry!

What profession is the smartest? Well, it’s not “rocket scientists!”

Like “up-close” interviews? Here’s “Ask the Jihadist.”