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YOUR FANS MAY NOTE THE ABSENCE OF BOOGER, ONE OF YOUR TRADEMARK WORDS. In fact, I mainly used it to describe the kind of humor I do?"Oh, I write booger jokes." If you actually were to look through my oeuvre, there's probably only once ... a day that I used it. Only a few thousand times did I go to that well...
LAST JANUARY YOU SAID YOU WERE TAKING A BREAK FROM YOUR WEEKLY COLUMN. LAST MONTH YOU MADE THE HIATUS PERMANENT. I don't think I'm ever going back to writing weekly columns. It was clear early on?like, with my second column?that I had nothing to say. Thirty years was a long time to write with nothing...
...HAVE ENOUGH TO SAY TO BLOG (WWW.DAVEBARRY.COM). I like blogging because it's flexible. Some days you do a lot. Some days you don't do any. I also like the interaction. If you write an entry and let people comment on it, it's amazing how funny it can get. The Internet is a good thing for people who write...
...WERE YOUR BIG COMIC INFLUENCES? My biggest by far?besides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humor?was Robert Benchley, a humor essayist. I always wanted to write like him. He was silly, and that appealed to me, that a grownup could be that silly and get away with...
...HAVE WRITTEN ON SERIOUS TOPICS. I wrote about my dad's death. My mom committed suicide. My son had a very bad accident. In each case, I wrote about them more just to get it out of me. I got a lot of letters that said, You should write more serious stuff. My reaction was, I don't want to. I wrote serious things because really bad things happened that forced me to confront them. I don't want to write about really bad things. I want to write about funny things...