(New Yorker cover by Art Spiegelman [And just in case it’s not clear: the white scrawl is not part of Mr. Spiegelman’s unforgettable cover. ])
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Who are we now? Alive…thanks to this administration for fighting terrorism, unlike the Democrats who fight the adminstration that fights terrorists.
I deeply appreciated Art Spiegelman’s two volume’s of Maus and his cover for the New Yorker is at once sober and solemn. Well done Art.
By Michael Ventre
At a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner three weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, comedian Gilbert Gottfried not only pushed the envelope, he set it on fire. He was at the podium, about to launch into the abundantly filthy “Aristocrats†joke that inspired an entire documentary film, when he mentioned that he had tried to get a direct flight “but they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.â€Â
If it’s possible to hear a cringe, this was the time. One man yelled out, “Too soon!†and a few gasps and groans were also audible. The walls of the Friars Club have heard a lot of tasteless remarks over the years from some of comedy’s foulest mouths, but this was in an historic class by itself.
I remember that issue well. I still have it saved, along with the newspapers from Sept. 12. That was the issue with Susan Sontag’s piece that the conservative blowhards wanted her hanged for treason over.
Speigelman also did a very good series of comics that only ran in this country in the LA Weekly and some Jewish newspaper called “In The Shadow of No Towers.” They were printed in a book back in 2004.
Who are we now? Alive…thanks to this administration for fighting terrorism, unlike the Democrats who fight the adminstration that fights terrorists.
I deeply appreciated Art Spiegelman’s two volume’s of Maus and his cover for the New Yorker is at once sober and solemn. Well done Art.
By Michael Ventre
At a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner three weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, comedian Gilbert Gottfried not only pushed the envelope, he set it on fire. He was at the podium, about to launch into the abundantly filthy “Aristocrats†joke that inspired an entire documentary film, when he mentioned that he had tried to get a direct flight “but they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.â€Â
If it’s possible to hear a cringe, this was the time. One man yelled out, “Too soon!†and a few gasps and groans were also audible. The walls of the Friars Club have heard a lot of tasteless remarks over the years from some of comedy’s foulest mouths, but this was in an historic class by itself.
I remember that issue well. I still have it saved, along with the newspapers from Sept. 12. That was the issue with Susan Sontag’s piece that the conservative blowhards wanted her hanged for treason over.
Speigelman also did a very good series of comics that only ran in this country in the LA Weekly and some Jewish newspaper called “In The Shadow of No Towers.” They were printed in a book back in 2004.