The Lost Deep Thoughts: Don't Fight the Deepness

Deep Thoughts

by Jack Handey

The latest installment in "Deep Thoughts" series unearths more of the pseudo-inspirational material that "Saturday Night Live" viewers have grown to love. Illustrated with aptly corny nature photographs, "The Lost Deep Thoughts" takes a profound plunge into the world of Handey's life-altering aphorisms. 96 photos.

Genres: Humor, Comedy, Satire, Fiction

First published September 16, 1998

About the author

Jack Handey is an American humorist. He is best known for his Deep Thoughts, a large body of surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts. Many people have the false impression that Jack Handey is not an actual person, but a character created by Saturday Night Live or a pen name used by National Lampoon.

Reviews

[Melanee]

Extremely funny stuff. He's so random!

[Ben Haines]

don't have time for guys to pull out handkerchiefs

[Melissa Namba]

Ahh this brought me back to the Hey Days of SNL. There are a bunch of hilarious deep thoughts in this book (although there are a few duds too). This is something that I would recommend to almost any of my friends and family.

[Andrew]

Deep thoughts make me happy. Very very happy. Don't fight the deepness.

[Amy Senter]

hilarious...i didn't know that there were books on these until i found one during a party at my friend's house

[John Martindale]

Some of these were pretty funny. They are to deepness, what unjokes are to jokes

[Farrell the Feral]

Saturday Night Live's Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy. You should appreciate this even if you've never heard of Jack Handy. And, if you don't, you're not my friend.

[Matt Piechocinski]

I really miss the SNL of the late 80s, and most of the 90s ... so much good stuff. Some of these "thoughts" had me laughing out loud.

[Patrice]

CRAZY THOUGHTS!

[Brad]

This volume tickled me less than the other three volumes, the third of which is my favorite.

That being said, what I had to say about the first two volumes still applies:

Before Mitch Hedberg, demotivational posters, status updates, 140-character tweets, or numerous internet jokes devoted to "shower thoughts," there was Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Usually one-liners, these non sequiturs--always paired with serene images--range from absurd musings to historic revisions to unusual logic to bait-and-switch humor to the anti-comic. The best ones are a little twisted.

Packing a bunch of them together takes some of the punch out of it, as does reading it today when so much has happened in the evolution of comedy since the years Deep Thoughts was on SNL. Nowadays the gems would be little more than a comic tweet quickly drowned by the oversaturated sea of electronic information.

[Benjamin Niespodziany]

A lot of chatter about James Tate, Russell Edson, and Charles Simic (all wonderful), but I think Jack Handey should be part of that grouping of masters of humor on a shortform poetic level. Deep Thoughts for life.

[Owen Haines]

S/o the homie Jack Handey for inventing tweets

[Erhan]

Waste of time to read this 'book'. It is a collection of meaningless bytes of silly thoughts.

i hope the author grew up to write better.