Barry Friedman

Barry is the author of Jacob Fishman's Marriages, Funny You Should Mention It, Road Comic, Four Days And Year Later, The Joke Was on Me, Jack Sh*t: Volume One Voluptuous Bagels and Other Concerns of Jack Friedman, the first his three-volume collection of life with his nonagenarian father. Barry is an essayist, reporter, standup comedian, and political columnist, his work has appeared in Esquire, where he has co-hosted "The Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce" (Pierce in fact gave him the name "Friedman of the Plains"); The Progressive Populist; Inside Media; The Las Vegas Review-Journal; and the AAPG EXPLORER, a magazine for petroleum geologists, which is mostly noteworthy because he knows little about petroleum geology and has hurt himself pumping his own gas. Barry was also "Fletcher Cronie #1 or #2" (there is still some debate) in "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF.Barry hates being referred to in the third person.