“I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the bar for the definition of “deadpan,” has ...

The debut novel from legendary stand-up comedian Steven Wright, Harold is about the kaleidoscopic mind of an ever-curious 7-year-old boy in the ’60s as he floats through his day; his rollicking inner ...

Steven Wright doesn't write jokes. He doesn't have to. For more than 40 years, Wright's comedy - delivered in his distinctive deadpan style - has consisted of droll observations of the incongruous, ...

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Comedian Steven Wright is known for his deadpan delivery of ironic one-liners, quirky stories, non sequiturs and paraprosdokians — sentences with an unexpected twist at the end. Like this one: “If at ...

At 7 years old, Harold already has some pretty advanced thoughts. Why, for instance, is time measured forward and backward, “but never off to the side”? Harold is the brainchild of Steven Wright, the ...

The influential stand-up wanted to “pour everything I think about being alive” into the book, which is told from the point of view of a 7-year-old. By Jason Zinoman If there’s one living stand-up ...

In his odd and wonderful first novel, the deadpan comedian Steven Wright takes us inside the head of a boy who broods over love, time, God and piñatas. By Michael Ian Black When you purchase an ...

Comedy legend Steven Wright, known for observational humor, talks about writing his novel "Harold," which is told from the perspective of a third grader over the course of one December day in the ...

The absurdist comedian Steven Wright is always in my head. When I was a kid, before I became a writer, I saw one of his TV stand-up specials, and that’s when the immortal one-liner, “What’s another ...