Paul Krassner - Margaret A. Harrell

Time Magazine on U.S. Satire

Following up, the third link that Paul Krassner sent me is right here. It's part of the U.S. magazines' look-back at types of satire that used to exist in the U.S. - The Realist (founded by Paul Krassner) being notable. A sneak peak: It wasn’t just a matter of readers being unfamiliar with the title of a foreign-language newspaper. Rather, the whole idea of Charlie Hebdo is foreign to American readers, because no real equivalent exists. Topical, political humor is popular in the U.S., but in re...

Paul Krassner – Funny Realist Photos, New Book

Paul Krassner on Obama, Orgies, and the Art of Offensive Cartoons - extract by Michael Dooley on November 30, 2012 Read the whole post here and especially look at the pictures. Click here. There's something oddly funny about Paul Krassner. And it's been going on for more than 50 years. He palled around with Lenny Bruce, the pioneering 1950s "sick" comic, and even edited Bruce's autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. He was instrumental in founding the Yippies!, those radical "G...

Paul Krassner is putting what he calls, in quotes, "our story" into his reissue of his autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counterculture – New Expanded Edition. This is quite funny. I love the effect of being a "character" in a book stepping off the pages, or maybe just pretending to step onto them in the first place. It makes me wonder how Hunter would have responded to my memoir, suppose I had published it while he was alive - which never crossed my mi...

Pop Culture History – Merry Pranksters

As some of you know, a long time ago, during the publicity tour of Hell's Angels, I crossed paths - for a moment - with satirist Paul Krassner, the then founding editor of the notorious counterculture publication, The Realist. When he sent me an outrageous letter, naturally I kept it and it proved a piece of luck for my memoir. Before reproducing it in Keep This Quiet! I tracked him down and he granted me the right, free of charge, to reprint the letter - in part illustrating the philosophy tha...