Colin McEnroe Show: Garry Trudeau On Doonesbury's 40th Anniversary
The legendary cartoonist talks about his career and his social commentary.
We didn't really plan to talk to Garry Trudeau and about Mark Twain on the same day, but, as a couple, they make sense.
Each of them has the same dual reputation as an unflagging humorist and a consummate storyteller. It goes a little deeper than that. There's a way in which each man holds comedy, as a lantern held aloft, while he willingly ventures deeper into the darker caves of self.
Another great writer of both comic and serious inclinations, Robertson Davies, wrote "Never be deceived by a humorist, for, if he is any good, he is a deeply serious man moved by a quirk of temperament to speak a certain kind of truth in the form of jokes. Everybody can laugh at the jokes. The trick is to understand them."
Trudeau and Twain share a third gift -- the perfect ear for the rhythms of their contemporaries' speech. It would be tough to think of two greater masters of American dialogue.
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Audio from this interview will be available later today.
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Good Show
Thank you for posting. Robertson Davies remarks, insightful as well.
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