I’m ready for my closeup

by Kieran Healy on April 2, 2010

First Sean Carroll gets to go on Colbert; and now Jonathan Dancy does a very creditable job on Craig Ferguson’s show. I just want to make it clear to TV producers that I am available for gigs. Now, unlike Jonathan I am not the father of a well-known actor, so I lack a connection to the world of “show business”. But, even so, comedy is kind of a hobby of mine. Well, actually, it’s a little more than just a hobby. Reader’s Digest is considering publishing two of my jokes.

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Ken Houghton 04.02.10 at 9:32 pm

As long as you’re going on dressed up like the late Bruno Kirby, that will be fine.

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Matt 04.03.10 at 12:13 am

also, you have a much better head a hair, at least according to the youtube clip I saw at some law blog the other day.

But as for Dancy, I was lead to believe by Claire Danes (SP? His daughter-in-law, I guess) that he’d likely wear leather pants and a beret. The more-or-less standard professor uniform was a bit of a let-down. (The foot-wear does seem a bit odd for the pants, but wearing the wrong foot-wear is itself part of the normal professor uniform, or at least a common version of it, I think.)

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andrew 04.03.10 at 1:12 am

Reader’s Digest is considering publishing two of my jokes.

But just the set-ups.

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nick s 04.03.10 at 5:57 am

And who’d have thought that the man who performed under the name ‘Bing Hitler’ a couple of decades back would be interviewing a philosophy professor on CBS?

(Ferguson’s doing interesting stuff with the space and venue he’s given. Fair play to him.)

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ben w 04.03.10 at 5:48 pm

The Dancy spot probably has something to do with this even better known actress’s appearance on Ferguson’s show.

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