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Bert & I is the name given to numerous collections of humor stories set in the "Down East" culture of traditional Maine.These stories were made famous and mostly written by the humorist storytelling team of Marshall Dodge (1935–1982) and Bob Bryan (1931-2018) in the 1950s and the 1960s and in later years through retellings by Allen Wicken.
A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking. [1] Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh, though it is possible for some persons to occupy both roles in the course of their careers.
By the 1830s, regional humor became popular across the US, with examples like Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes (1835) from the South [3] and Seba Smith's Major Jack Downing series (1830-1850s) from New England. [4] Smith was influenced by earlier works by John Neal exhibiting Maine and New England accents and cultural references. [5]
New England is also the setting for most of the gothic horror stories of H. P. Lovecraft, who lived his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Real New England towns such as Ipswich, Newburyport, Rowley, and Marblehead featured often in his stories alongside fictional locations such as Dunwich, Arkham, Innsmouth and Kingsport. Lovecraft often ...
Lord was still in his twenties and living in New York City when he became a national radio personality. Creating the character "Seth Parker", a clergyman and backwoods philosopher based on his real-life grandfather, Hosea Phillips, Lord wrote stories for radio of rural New England humor that included the playing of old-time songs.
Alan "Al" Kaprielian is a weather presenter in New Hampshire. He is best known for the 20+ years he has spent at Channel 50 , a broadcast television station in Derry, New Hampshire . One journalist described him as a Kult of Kaprielian due to his distinctive voice and eccentric mannerisms, which included squeaky, high-pitched exclamations of ...
Jacob's Ladder (1990) – set in New York City; It (1990) Mermaids (1990) – set in the fictional town of Eastport, Massachusetts; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) – set in New York City and rural New England; Once Around (1991) – Renata starts at her parents' place in New England; Other People's Money (1991) Run (1991) – set in ...
Nickels, Cameron C. New England Humor: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993. Nancy Glazener (1997). Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1870-9.