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Paradise Lost · 10-21-2004, 01:38 PM

I just read this today from the Miami Herald's website (being an uber-huge fan of the Godly being
known as Dave Barry,) and found that he's taking a leave from writing weekly columns for at least a year.

Quote:

Dave Barry will take a timeout

BY DANIEL CHANG

dchang@herald.com

The world is about to get a lot less funny, beginning in January.

Dave Barry, The Herald's humor columnist for the past 20 years, said Tuesday that he will take an indefinite leave of absence from the newspaper. He may return in a year.

Herald editors wish Barry were making it up.

''Since Dave's columns began appearing every Sunday in The Herald, an entire generation has been born, raised and reached adulthood,'' said Tom Fiedler, The Herald's executive editor. ''Yet his unique sense of humor never grew up and never got old. Learning that Dave wants a breather is like hearing that Peter Pan joined AARP.''

Barry, 57, said he wants to spend more time with his family after a hectic summer trotting from the Democratic and Republican national conventions to the Olympics in Greece and around the country on a book promotion tour.

''I've never not had a column in a week in all of 30 years, even when I went on vacation,'' Barry said. 'At some point I said, 'Well, maybe it'll be OK to not do it for a while.' And I didn't want to wait until I hated it and I didn't want to wait until I thought, 'Oh, I've got no more columns to write.' ''

It is a plus that they're almost done finishing the Complete Guide to Guys movie, and he probably
won't disappear for good over the next year, but I find that I've never read a person quite like Dave
Barry. Funniest, craziest stuff I've ever read, aside from maybe Woody Allen (also my hero). Also, the guy
is involved in basically everything. Even though it seems like he hates Miami, he's always doing something
wacky in the town, or putting together something with other Herald members.

Any thoughts, comments, flame wars (well, maybe not flame wars)??

Ilow · 10-21-2004, 07:57 PM

It is amazing that he is able to be consistantly funny for such a long time, I have a couple of his books too and they are great reading if you need a laugh. I love how he can find something that seems to speak to all of us.

Redlemon · 10-22-2004, 05:55 AM

His fiction is even better than his articles. Big Trouble is a very well written farce. The movie was good as well, but the movie isn't as dark as the book.

10-21-2004, 07:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ilow Junkie Location: Pats country	It is amazing that he is able to be consistantly funny for such a long time, I have a couple of his books too and they are great reading if you need a laugh. I love how he can find something that seems to speak to all of us. __________________ "Religion is the one area of our discourse in which it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about" --Sam Harris

10-22-2004, 05:55 AM	#3 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	His fiction is even better than his articles. Big Trouble is a very well written farce. The movie was good as well, but the movie isn't as dark as the book.