Dave Barry. Photo by daniel portnoy www.danielportnoy.com MACON, Ga. — Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry will be honored with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The announcement was made Thursday night, May 3, in Macon, Ga., at the top of the society’s 2012 national conference, where New York…
The Omaha World-Herald has a new humor-columnist. Actually, he was already writing for the World-Herald as a sports columnist on a free-lance basis. Brad Dickson grew up in Omaha and was even a paperboy for the newspaper at one time in his life. But that was a long time ago, before he made it big…
NSNC member and humor columnist Jerry Zezima reports that he recently finished second in the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year Contest. “But the mustache contest was special because I not only was up against some stiff-upper-lipped competition, but because I lost by — you guessed it — a whisker,” quipped Zezima. The…
Funny guy, Charles Memminger writes us with some news: Aloha family, friends and “others”, I’m happy to announce that my humor column, Charleyworld, has found a home at Hawaii’s fastest growing Internet news site: the Hawaii Reporter. Charleyworld will be posted weekly, filling in the huge satire, sarcasm, irony, facetiousness, politically-incorrect musings and gecko commentary…
After 31 years of continuous writing for Honolulu newspapers, Charley Memminger’s run will end with his last Charleyworld column on May 30. The new Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the result of a merger, will not be picking up his column on a freelance basis. Memminger began his three times a week humor column “Honolulu Lite” in 1992 during his 30 years of employment with…
