Dave Barry

when it was, you know, every newspaper wanted to have a humor columnist and there were a million local humor columnists. And I was one of the more successful of those.

when it was, you know, every newspaper wanted to have a humor columnist and there were a million local humor columnists. And I was one of the more successful of those.

I was for a while.

I was for a while.

Women's Olympic team. And I'm just going to say, this is going to sound like I'm blowing smoke up your ass, but you wrote a funnier column than I did about that. I don't believe that. But just so the listeners know what we're talking about, Dan and I were covering the Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta, the bomb Olympics. And I think it was my idea, but you agreed to go along.

Women's Olympic team. And I'm just going to say, this is going to sound like I'm blowing smoke up your ass, but you wrote a funnier column than I did about that. I don't believe that. But just so the listeners know what we're talking about, Dan and I were covering the Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta, the bomb Olympics. And I think it was my idea, but you agreed to go along.

He was wrong. You wrote a really funny column. But we went to the Emory University pool and both almost drowned trying to stay up with, I don't know if it was the U.S. National. Yeah, I kicked a girl in the face. It was bad. I was not good. I was not graceful in the water. Somewhere is my favorite picture of all time of me. And it's you and me trying to keep all around us are these women.

He was wrong. You wrote a really funny column. But we went to the Emory University pool and both almost drowned trying to stay up with, I don't know if it was the U.S. National. Yeah, I kicked a girl in the face. It was bad. I was not good. I was not graceful in the water. Somewhere is my favorite picture of all time of me. And it's you and me trying to keep all around us are these women.

like ballerinas with their hands over their heads and there's you and I disappearing beneath the surface of the Emory University pool.

like ballerinas with their hands over their heads and there's you and I disappearing beneath the surface of the Emory University pool.

Okay, if you say so.

Okay, if you say so.

No, when my mom committed suicide, I wrote about that. And when my son Rob was in a bike accident, I wrote about that. And people said very nice things sometimes about when I wrote serious things, like, why don't you write more serious? Because the only times I did it was some horrible thing happened that I had to get it out of me. I don't want more horrible things to happen to me.

No, when my mom committed suicide, I wrote about that. And when my son Rob was in a bike accident, I wrote about that. And people said very nice things sometimes about when I wrote serious things, like, why don't you write more serious? Because the only times I did it was some horrible thing happened that I had to get it out of me. I don't want more horrible things to happen to me.

I want to go back to writing booger jokes.

I want to go back to writing booger jokes.

Paid to write humor. Yeah. It was kind of not quite the same. I went to work when I got out of college for a little newspaper in Pennsylvania, Westchester, Pennsylvania, the Daily Local News. which was tiny, which is by which I mean to say it's about the same circulation as the Miami Herald is today. But but but they it was like you did everything there.

Paid to write humor. Yeah. It was kind of not quite the same. I went to work when I got out of college for a little newspaper in Pennsylvania, Westchester, Pennsylvania, the Daily Local News. which was tiny, which is by which I mean to say it's about the same circulation as the Miami Herald is today. But but but they it was like you did everything there.

You know, you wrote a lot of obituaries and covered meetings and police and fire and stuff like that. But you could write what they called it, an ad lib, an op ed little column if you wanted to. and like a 500 word thing. Most people would write about their cat or whatever. And I wrote what I thought was humor. Wrote a couple of those. So technically I guess I was getting paid to do that.

You know, you wrote a lot of obituaries and covered meetings and police and fire and stuff like that. But you could write what they called it, an ad lib, an op ed little column if you wanted to. and like a 500 word thing. Most people would write about their cat or whatever. And I wrote what I thought was humor. Wrote a couple of those. So technically I guess I was getting paid to do that.