The "C" is for Comedy

A planet on the other side of the galaxy.

A professor with a secret.

A cinephile with a hand plough.

You’ll find all these stories and more in this collection of humour and fiction that Jeff published over the course of 2023 and 2024 in such venues as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Jane Austen’s Wastepaper Basket, Slackjaw, Johnny America, Robot Butt, and more.

Including a new introductory essay by the author, this collection isn’t really “for” anyone besides his loved ones. So if you pick up this book, know that you are loved.

(N.B. This book is being issued as a PDF only.)

This book includes the following pieces:

• New essay: What Does the “C” Stand For?
• The Request (JAKE Magazine)
• A Question to the Disbelieved (Bewildering Stories)
• Pan Gets an Email Address (Johnny America)
• Into the Mist (Mirk Fantasy Magazine)
• It Goes Back! (Little Old Lady Comedy)
• If You Liked this Template We Made for Your WordPress Site, You’ll Love the One We Made for Your Life (Jane Austen's Wastepaper Basket)
• My Family Are All Becoming Cartoon Characters, But We’re Mostly Okay With It (Robot Butt)
• After a Decade of Working on My Thesis, I Think I Have Finally Nailed My Acknowledgments Page (McSweeney's)
• I, the Oxford Comma, No Longer Wish to Be a Source of Divisiveness Between Coworkers, Families, or Anyone Else (Jane Austen's Wastepaper Basket)
• Autocorrect Apologizes for the Apocalypse (MuddyUm)
• Looks Like the Future Where Everyone Becomes a YouTube Star Turned Out Just Fine, Dad (Robot Butt)
• Suggestions for Rebooting the Marvel Cinematic Universe from Farmer, Essayist, and Poet Wendell Berry (McSweeney's)
• What Every Capitol Building Needs: A Ten-Foot-Tall Statue of Bluey (MuddyUm)
• Creative Ways To React When The Movie Awards Host Makes Fun Of You And The Camera Cuts To Your Face (Little Old Lady Comedy)
• Finally, Auteur-Branded Snacks (Slackjaw)
• Move Over, Deepak Chopra: The Self-Help We Need is Google Sheets (MuddyUm)
• A Defense of Madame Web From the Inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (MuddyUm)
• Movie Critics Admit Their Hate for 2002’s Reign of Fire is Due to Fear of Dragons, Not Movie Quality (Robot Butt)
• Having Run Out of Cultural Intellectual Property to Mine, Studios Turn Their Gaze Elsewhere (Jane Austen's Wastepaper Basket)
• Sartre Tries to Make Tree Roots a Thing (Medium)
• Disney Exec: It’s Time We Put Our Talented Former Child Actors to Work Really Leveraging Our Vast Intellectual Property (Defenestration Magazine)
• What Goes Through A Car Dealer’s Mind When I Enter A Dealership (Slackjaw)
• No, My Genealogical Hobby Isn’t Creepy (Jane Austen's Wastepaper Basket)
• Preorder Book Sales Are Key (McSweeney's)
• Wonka 2: Chocolate Messiah (Robot Butt)
• Your Overuse of the Grin-Sweat Emoji Has Me, Your Doctor, Worried (Jane Austen's Wastepaper Basket)
• How to Enjoy Slow Cinema (Slackjaw)
• Introducing the Vatican’s Mascot Legacy Series (Slackjaw)