Tony Hendra

Random House: Father Joe

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A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.

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The New York Times: Father Joe

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SAINTS are perhaps always best evoked by sinners. And it would be hard to think of someone more at ease in the world of modern sin than Tony Hendra. He is and has been a brilliant satirist, an alum of National Lampoon in its glory days, an architect of the peerless parody rock documentary, ”This Is Spinal Tap,” a man who has known (and tells us of) serial sex and drugs and rock and irony. But this extraordinary, luminescent, profound book shows us something wonderfully unexpected and deeply true.
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Bookreporter.com: Father Joe

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Along with a gaggle of smart (just ask us!) young men in New York, I worked with Tony Hendra on a number of humor projects two decades ago. Beyond our wit, we all shared one attribute — in the words of the lone female on the team, “You’re all guys who don’t want to go home.” My reason was prosaic: no girlfriend. Hendra’s, it turns out, was more complicated.

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My Wall Street Journal

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Tony Hendra’s latest project, “My Wall Street Journal,” is a parody of The Wall Street Journal and is generating buzz online as it hits newsstands across the country. Visit www.wsjparody.com. Read the latest coverage:

Bush Vows To Take Out Iran’s Non-Existent Nukes

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:10:38 +0000

Speaking at an emergency press-conference in the White House, President Bush has just announced that air, sea and land elements of a massive US invasion force are being assembled in the Persian Gulf and on Iran’s Western borders.

Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn’t

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:09:18 +0000

Here’s the New York Times frontpage left-hand hed from this morning: “Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate About Iran.” Assessment? Jars? Debate? Excuse me?Here’s Gramma Pelosi this morning: “The NIE illustrates the effectiveness of international monitoring and targeted sanctions to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass…

Lapham’s Quarterly: Cutting-Edge Journalism From The Distant Past

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:08:17 +0000

At 72 Lewis Lapham is hardly in the twilight of his life, but he’s certainly embarked on its happy hour. Formerly editor of Harper’s, America’s quintessential liberal magazine, (perhaps the only one which never grew ashamed of that venerable designation or squandered its integrity fawning over the intellectual terrorists of…

Michael Moore Recycles My Joke! Yay! (I Think)

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:07:12 +0000

No one, bar no one enjoys Michael Moore movies more than me. Anyone who can get the troglo-right’s ample knickers in a twist the way he can, is aces in my book. The message of his ads for SICKO seems to be that said troglo-right, along with HMOs, pharmas and…