Review of No Punchline by Jeff Suwak

No Punchline: Or, The Night Chale Thayer Blew his Head off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club by Jeff Suwak

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Jeff Suwak’s short story No Punchline: Or, The Night Chale Thayer Blew his Head off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club will cure what ails us. A hell of a lot ails us today but it’s hard for many of us to realize it because we’re mesmerized and infatuated with technology and our new technology-based consciousness. No Punchline is defiantly low-tech. It’s gravelly, obscene, nicotine-stained noir. It’s succinct, precise and taut. It reminds us that life is life and social media is merely a medium. It’s nineteen-sixties Rod Serling. It’s Walter Cronkite. It’s the pissed off voice crying in the wilderness of urban filth. It’s grunge. It’s a buck. Read the story.



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