{"id":235,"date":"2008-07-31T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T21:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/31\/bob-newhart-names-mad-kane-winner-of-2008-robert-benchley-society-award-for-humor\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T04:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:59:53","slug":"bob-newhart-names-mad-kane-winner-of-2008-robert-benchley-society-award-for-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/31\/bob-newhart-names-mad-kane-winner-of-2008-robert-benchley-society-award-for-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Newhart Names &#8220;Mad&#8221; Kane Winner of 2008 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June I was thrilled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/06\/24\/im-a-2008-robert-benchley-society-award-for-humor-finalist\/\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">to announce<\/span><\/a> that\u00a0I\u00a0was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertbenchley.org\/2008_competition\/bob_newhart_to_judge.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">2008 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor<\/span><\/a> Competition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexingtonfilm.com\/benchleyfinalists2008.htm\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">finalist.<\/span><\/a> (The humor column that got me onto the finalists list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/opera_humor.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Guide For The Opera Impaired.<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m now beyond thrilled because Bob Newhart, the finalists judge, <a href=\"http:\/\/benchley.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/bob-newhart-namesmad-kane-winner-of.html\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">picked me as the FIRST PRIZE winner.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Newhart even sent\u00a0me a handwritten personal note (reproduced below) explaining why he named me for the top Robert Benchley Society humor award.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I\u2019m verging on euphoria \u2014a dangerous condition for a satirist.\u00a0 But just to be mentioned in the same sentence as Mr. Benchley and Mr. Newhart is almost beyond comprehension.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Mr. Newhart\u2019s note. (Needless to say, I plan to frame the original.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-content\/themes\/default\/images\/bob3720comp1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bob Newhart Letter\" width=\"450\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I\u2019m very pleased that my award has generated a fair amount of publicity.\u00a0 This article <a href=\"http:\/\/lohud.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008808300348\">in Gannett\u2019s Journal News is probably the best of the stories.<\/a>\u00a0 And it has a fun companion video of me reading one of my humor columns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June I was thrilled to announce that\u00a0I\u00a0was a 2008 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor Competition finalist. (The humor column that got me onto the finalists list is Guide For The Opera Impaired.)\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m now beyond thrilled because Bob Newhart, the finalists judge, picked me as the FIRST PRIZE winner. Mr. Newhart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,166,173,171],"tags":[2817,815,2816,816],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-newhart","category-humor-contests","category-humor-writing-contests","category-robert-benchley-society","tag-bob-newhart","tag-humor-awards","tag-robert-benchley-society","tag-writing-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}