In his announcement of this year’s Thurber Prize winner, The Washington Post‘s Ron Charles buries the lede:
The Thurber Prize began in 1996 and calls itself “the nation’s highest recognition of the art of humor writing.”
Previous winners of the prize include David Sedaris, Christopher Buckley and Calvin Trillin. No woman has even been named a winner of the Thurber Prize, though women have been finalists, and women may have been included in winning organizations such as the Onion and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Oooh, ooh, I can hear the trolls now: “So what’s the big deal? Maybe no woman has written anything worthy of the highest recognition of humor in the last seventeen years, is all.” And let me respond to the trolls: Fuck you. You can’t scientifically prove that one hilarious piece of writing is somehow more worthy of an award than another hilarious piece of writing. You can only offer your opinion. And the judges of the Thurber Prize, since 1996, have had the opinion that no woman is worthy of winning the Thurber Prize. That’s more than a little lapse in political correctness. That’s an injustice. You can see a full list of Thurber Prize winners here. They certainly do have a “type,” don’t they?
You can only offer your opinion.
Here’s mine. Topic of the post aside, please get rid of this sensationally idiotic man-child and and hire someone who doesn’t come off, in every piece of writing, as a fool throwing a temper tantrum. Paul Constant is Hannity, Palin, Limbaugh, Olbermann, etc. This guy is simply the worst. Thank you all in advance for the thumbs up.
So next year they should give a token prize to a woman who actually isn’t the best humor writer.
Is that type mildly, inoffensively funny to the NPR set? Cause that’s what I’m seeing on that list.
Also, its important to note, that no Woman has ever been named a loser of the Thurber prize.
What I really need is Barbara Holm’s take on this.
WHY MUST I WAIT TWO MORE DAYS FOR MY “LEAST FAVORITE PIECE?”
Paul Constantly lame.
Seriously, there’s a story here; Paul Constant is a fucking moron an ruins the story. He is easily the worst thing happening to Index Media. Fuck, even that Dirk Vanderbuilt guy is a better writer and I don’t even think he has thumbs or a functioning nervous system.
Amy is way funnier and smarter than David.