{"id":802,"date":"2013-01-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/802"},"modified":"2013-01-23T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:00:00","slug":"the-funniest-man-in-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/802","title":{"rendered":"The Funniest Man in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>I&#8217;ve read critics say that Garrison Keillor is the funniest man in America. Other critics say that it&#8217;s Dave Barry.  Which is it? <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from&#32;Pauline McCann of Drogheda, Ireland<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor are actually the same person, an Irish mimic who&#8217;s real name is Paddy O&#8217;Shea.  Since Paddy couldn&#8217;t get a visa to work in the states, he had to adopt these various persona, including the deep voiced Minnesotan and the elfish Floridian.  Paddy&#8217;s working on other impressions, including Dr. Joyce Brothers and Carl Sagan.  He&#8217;ll have to wait until these last two retire, but that won&#8217;t be a stretch for an Irishman, who can hold a grudge longer than Bolivia can maintain a government. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>I&#8217;ve read critics say that Garrison Keillor is the funniest man in America. Other critics say that it&#8217;s Dave Barry.  Which is it? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/802\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}