Mark Bazer
Mark Bazer examines cultural trends, current events and personal experiences with a dry wit and deft touch.
A consistently inventive writer, Bazer employs a wide range of devices, taking readers on unexpected and always amusing journeys. His fresh observations and unpredictable approach to life have made him a favorite of readers of all ages.
Bazer is a rising young humorist whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune and its edition for commuters, RedEye. In addition, for several years Bazer hoststhe talk show “The Interview Show” at the Hideout, a popular Chicago club. The show, which Bazer orchestrates with the intellectual yet approachable flair of a latter-day Dick Cavett, features authors, journalists, musicians, filmmakers, standup comics, chefs, hip-hop artists and more, and can be seen at The Huffington Post.
He has also written for GQ magazine, the Boston Globe, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Reader, the Boston Phoenix and other leading mainstream and alternative publications. Bazer has filled in as a talk-show host on WGN radio, performed humor on Chicago's public radio station, WBEZ, and was a staff writer for the popular and humorous CD-ROM game "You Don't Know Jack." An essay of his is included in the humor anthology "101 Damnations," published by St. Martin's Press. While a student at Northwestern University, Bazer was a weekly humor columnist for the school's newspaper.
Mark Bazer lives in Chicago.
Mark Bazer Samples
Your kid's next birthday party -- done wrong!
MARK BAZER. More kids may be born during the spring than any other time of year. The Make Someone Else's Sundae Party. Kids today get everything they want. The Inflate One of Those Inflatable Things Party.
It's only the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but ...
MARK BAZER. There are many reasons NOT to care about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, or the induction ceremony this past weekend. -- Rock thrives on rebellion against "institutions," so why have an official rock one?
There's nothing like an upbeat circumcision headline, like this one!
MARK BAZER. Sometimes all it takes to get the day started right is an upbeat headline about circumcision. Recently, it was: "Circumcision Tied to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk: Study." Man, I love an upbeat circumcision story!
Correction: Jennifer Aniston is not pregnant
MARK BAZER. After a careful eight-month study of celebrity gossip magazines, I've determined that, on occasion, these publications get their facts wrong. I'm fine with that. We all make honest mistakes from time to time.
My super dilemma
MARK BAZER. Will you read one more story about the Super Bowl? No, this one is about a ticket. Specifically, a Super Bowl ticket that fell into my lap . . . and divided a nation.
A vacation day -- and more -- stolen
MARK BAZER. We got broken into. The worst part? I had a couple of vacation days to use up at the end of 2011, because, with two little kids, we never go anywhere.
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