Showing posts with label Steven Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Wright. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2023

STAND UP WALKING

Steven Wright is a very funny man. I don't know how much of a walker he is.


I’m aware of him chiefly as a deadpan stand up comedian but he’s also an actor, writer, and film producer.  The humour is usually verbal, with a lot of puns, some philosophy, and a shedload of absurdity. To be honest I don’t know if he writes all his own stand up material but he’s all over the internet credited with the line  ‘Everywhere is walking distance if you have got the time.’


 

I think he’s wrong about this.  The Americas aren’t walking distance from, say, London because you’d have to walk over or under the Atlantic Ocean, although admittedly there is some suggestion that this is what Buster Keaton does in The Railrodder – jumping into the Thames and emerging on the coast of Canada.



Steven Wright does have another line about walking which I think is much better than that first one



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