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The Thurber House | Thurber Prize for American Humor
Thurber House is proud to announce that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, has won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Authors David Javerbaum and Ben Karlin accepted the award in a ceremony at New York's famed Algonquin Hotel on Mon., Nov. 14.
Bravo, Jon Stewart, et al., one of the few reasons not to shoot your TV.
By the way, anyone wishing to know what I look like (sortof) will find a framed photograph of me hanging in the Thurber House in Columbus. Right above the bathtub in the second-floor bathroom. No kidding. I guess they ran short of space downstairs.
Actually, I can only presume that it still hangs there, because the last time I was in the Thurber House, about two years ago, I attempted to enter said bathroom in order to show the picture to my wife's cousins, but the four of us were repelled by a curiously rabid docent who announced, with all the hauteur a guardian of the Thurber Legacy is apparently issued, that this particular loo was verboten to the likes of us. Go figure. Maybe they'd had a rash of authors filching the toilet paper.