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Do you remember the comedy dry zone?
I\\u2019m talking about the barren, hardscrabble times when getting a free laugh from the comfort of your toilet wasn\\u2019t easy. Before Internet memes, before parody Twitter themes, before viral SNL skits, before ShowerThoughts subreddits, before LOLCats and even before giant email chats\\u2026
\\u2026 there was one man.
The inimitable, indomitable, indefatigable Dave Barry.
Beginning in 1983 and running for over twenty years, Dave Barry sent his syndicated humor column out to over 500 newspapers from his home base at The Miami Herald.
Every single week his columns offered guaranteed laughs and a fresh, head-tilting way of seeing the world.
Dave Barry poured perspective on political conventions, kicked socialites off soapboxes, cajoled critics into colonoscopies, and even popularized International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Together with MAD Magazines and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, Dave Barry columns gave me and millions of others a drink \\u2026 in the dry zone.
I was beyond nervous to fly down to Miami and meet up with Dave at Books&Books in Coral Gables, Florida where he shared a fresh dose of his head-tilting way of looking at the world as only he sees it.
Please enjoy my conversation with screenwriter, novelist, performing musician, Pulitzer Prize winner, and New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books\\u2026
Dave Barry.
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