Additional Deep Thoughts appeared in the October and November 1984 editions as well as in the short-lived comedy magazine Army Man, while more appeared in 1988 in The New Mexican. In April 1984, National Lampoon published the first of Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Handey returned to Saturday Night Live in 1985 as a writer and co-producer. For several years Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian sketch series Bizarre in 19 TV special Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty and Lorne Michaels' short-lived sketch show on NBC called The New Show in 1984. According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for Saturday Night Live after Martin introduced Handey to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels. His first comic writing was with comedian Steve Martin. He lost the job, in his words, after writing "an article that offended local car dealerships". Handey's earliest writing job was for a newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News. His family later moved to El Paso, Texas, where Handey attended Eastwood High School (where he was editor of Sabre, the school newspaper) and the University of Texas at El Paso. Handey was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1949.
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