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Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic , philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes , paraprosdokians , non sequiturs , anti-humor , and one-liners with contrived situations.
- Steven Alexander Wright
- December 6, 1955 (age 67), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- 1978–present
- “I’m going to court next week. I’ve been selected for jury duty. It’s kind of an insane case. 6,000 ants dressed up as rice and robbed a Chinese restaurant …I don’t think they did it.
- “I tried to hang myself with bungee cord… Kept almost dying.” Advertisement.
- “I was walking down the street, there was a sign stapled to a telephone pole that said: Reward, lost $50. If found, just keep it”
- “So I was laying in bed with my girlfriend reading the second hand diary that I bought… ‘I don't remember this.’ She said, “Let me ask you a question: If you could know how and when you were gonna die would you want to know?’
May 16, 2023 · Steven Wright is 67 and says he performs less these days. The book’s central metaphor is a description of Harold’s thought process as a room with one window and a riot of birds flying around ...
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- "You can't have everything. Where would you put it? " Even if you had a bag that was big enough to put everything else inside of it, where would you put that bag?
- "I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. " Steven Wright has several jokes about sci-fi-esque ramifications that come from making copies, but this is easily my favorite.
- "It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. " This winner of a joke is the equivalent of saying, "Look, a dead bird!"
- "I lost a buttonhole." My personal all-time favorite Steven Wright one-liner. Like a two-sentence horror story, it's all about the brevity, and he earns all the slow claps here.
Learn about the life and career of Steven Wright, the American comedian and Oscar-winning writer-producer of The Appointments of Dennis Jennings. Find out his film and TV credits, his albums, his awards and his personal background.
May 16, 2023 · Steven Wright, king of laconic one-liners, wrote the delightfully loopy novel "Harold" because he wanted to break free of stand-up's "very narrow window of creativity."
