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Jay Ruttenberg

About

Jay Ruttenberg is editor of the comedy zine the Lowbrow Reader and the book The Lowbrow Reader Reader. His work has appeared in the New York Times, MAD magazine, the Village Voice, and on newyorker.com.

Articles

Issue 99, Winter 2017

"Me Hungry"

Even when singing about relatively staid subjects—urban machismo, our loneliness in the universe—he seems to be reciting a joke. It is the musical equivalent of Will Ferrell’s face.

By Jay Ruttenberg