Let’s congratulate somebody else for a change.
You won’t see Chris Regan posting anything on F.A. for a little while. Why? Because he’ll be on his honeymoon.
Does that imply what you think it does? You betcha. Sorry, girls - as of this weekend, Chris Regan will be off the market, his banjo and “courtin’ spats” retired for good.
When, on Saturday, his bride steps off that boat and Chris meets her for the first time, I’m confident that he will find her to be a healthy and hard-working childbearer…
Nonono. Chris and the lovely Susannah have known each other a wee bit longer than that, and she actually speaks the language like a native, despite her midwest upbringing. This union has in fact been long anticipated, particularly by their son Zach, now in his sophmore year at Exeter.
Yes, it’s hard for comedians to congratulate each other without running off the rails. But I am thrilled for my friends Chris and Susannah, and you should be too. Trust me - they’re great people, and they’re great together.
Besides, it’s always an inspiration when a couple can become “husband and wife” after so many years of being just “stalker and victim.” Here’s to them!
Fanny Roborat
39 comments
YLlama
August 11, 2006 at 11:55 am
1Congrats, Chris & Susannah. I do hope the honeymoon isn’t spoiled by TSA confiscating the couple’s Astroglide.
Harold
August 11, 2006 at 12:31 pm
2Congratulations, Chris! Now you and your bride are on the front lines of the battle against the godless homosexuals who hate marriage and want to destroy it as a sacred institution! Be faithful, steadfast, resolute, and ready to take up arms when commanded to do so by Our Beloved Maximum Leader!
nato
August 11, 2006 at 12:41 pm
3I’m sure there will be more baring of arms than taking up of arms by this couple for a while.
piglet
August 11, 2006 at 12:42 pm
4Happy Wedding! I’ll eat some cake in your honor.
SeattleDan
August 11, 2006 at 1:29 pm
5Way to go Chris and Susannah. Have a great time on your honeymoon! No need to send any postcards.
dee
August 11, 2006 at 1:40 pm
6Is
MoFanny still available?gbear
August 11, 2006 at 2:28 pm
7If I keep plugging away to make same sex partnerships equal to opposite sex partnerships, will that ruin Chris and Susannahs happiness? I don’t want to wreck it for anybody. Is ‘plugging’ a bad word to use in this context? Happy weekend everyone.
Ann
August 11, 2006 at 2:29 pm
8Yes, congratulations all ’round! And please re-read Adam’s stirring testimony about how his marital happiness depends on excluding gays from receiving the same rights. Classic stuff.
Jim (Original Jim, not the Other Jim or the New Jim)
August 11, 2006 at 2:43 pm
9For the uninitiated, Ann is referring to the “Save My Marriage” post from the July 2003 archive.
Chris and Susannah, congratulations on both your marriage and the ability to be legally married. After all, your minority group (i.e. veteran Daily Show writers and satirical “lefty bloggerists”) may be the next one denied “special” rights.
cooper
August 11, 2006 at 4:29 pm
10gbear, you ask some interesting questions to which I must say “I don’t know”.
I hearby announce the “Susannah for Sainthood” initiative, beginning immediately.
Congratulations to both of you!
gbear
August 11, 2006 at 4:50 pm
11Ann and Jim: Yes. I’ve read Adam’s post and I even heard him read it on the radio, sans penguins if I remember correctly. (?)
SeattleDan
August 11, 2006 at 5:34 pm
12I wasn’t around at the time of “Save My Marriage” and just went to look at it. Wow. It went on for nearly a year and the original post and the comments, IMHO, is publishable. What an epic!
Joseph Ratzinger
August 11, 2006 at 6:10 pm
13I hope you’re not thinking of using condoms or any form of birth control during your honeymoon. That, as you know, would be a venial sin and would temporarily remove you from the Grace of God - if you happen to believe in such foolishness.
Dale
August 11, 2006 at 7:36 pm
14I hope you’re not using condoms or any form of birth control during your honeymoon because the next generation will need as many smart, funny satirists as it can get. (But if you are bringing any, you probably want to pack them. Any word from the TSA on the terrorist potential of lubricated condoms?)
historyenne
August 11, 2006 at 8:11 pm
15Congratulations! Hooray! Champagne all around!
dee
August 11, 2006 at 10:08 pm
16Mazel tov to the happy couple. Though why anyone wouldn’t wait three more weeks to honeymoon at Felberpalooza is beyond me.
Dale
August 11, 2006 at 10:28 pm
17Whoever suggested looking at the whole “Save My Marriage” saga owes me two hours of work on my dissertation.
PS - Murray, you are awesome.
SeattleDan
August 11, 2006 at 11:27 pm
18No kidding about Murray, Dale. What’s your dissertation about? And dont tell me about 250 pages.
David
August 12, 2006 at 6:59 am
19Hope congrats from someone on the edge of the Green Swamp who doesn’t know either Chris or Susannah counts - hard to argue with the marvellous value of two good people finding each other, and veteran Daily Show writers are way beyond just good people.
dee does make a good point, especially since the beer will be free, abundant, and served by the Mother of All Way Cool Hosts.
Sharon
August 12, 2006 at 9:30 am
20I’m the “Sharon M. Foster, Danbury, Conn” in the Letters to the Editor section of today’s New York Times. I’ve been published!!!
Sharon
August 12, 2006 at 9:32 am
21Erk! I had that surrounded that with “shameless self-congratulations” in angle brackets, but because it was in angle brackets, it got swallowed up.
dee
August 12, 2006 at 11:04 am
22Sharon I am mightily impressed, both by your letter AND the fact it was published. Is it too much to ask that the “Leaders” of the Democratic Party read the NYTimes Opinion pages and maybe pick up a few talking points? Cuz your letter is the PERFECT answer to the “activist judges” brouhaha.
cooper
August 12, 2006 at 11:32 am
23Damn, now I gotta look in the New York Times Opinion pages? Okay, I’ll be back in six hours or so. At least it’s not the Sunday New York Times.
cooper
August 12, 2006 at 11:45 am
24Okay, that wasn’t so bad. So, Sharon, now you and Adam will be the most famous people at Felberpaloosa. Good thing I don’t subscribe to the NYT or I’d get lost in their many fine articles like -
On the Recentness of What We Know
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG - This looked like an interesting cosmology romp, but I couldn’t tell much about it, because I got stopped at the checkpoint without proper ID. Congratulations, Ms. Foster, librarian of distinction.
Sharon
August 12, 2006 at 11:48 am
25I couldn’t read the entire Klinkenborg article either. The topic interests me, and he writes well, but I only have 3 weeks until the fall semester starts, and there is already a pile of half-read or just-started books waiting for me.
George C
August 12, 2006 at 12:44 pm
26Congratulations to the newlyweds - Chris and Susannah! May the wind be at your back and the laughs in your face.
siobhan
August 12, 2006 at 8:49 pm
27Okay, we’ve already established that the crossover demographic between FA readers and NPR listeners is roughly, oh, 1 to 1. It seems likely that we’ve got a fair number of letter-to-the-editor types here too (given everyone’s ability to get to the point in a quick pithy post).
Anyone?
Sharon, I’m impressed. NY Times! My ultimate goal? The Economist.
siobhan
August 12, 2006 at 8:52 pm
28Oh geez… (my bad)
Congrats to the newlyweds! That’s even more exciting than getting your LTE into the Times.
(If I can plead old-married-fartdom… the LTEs are much more recent than the wedding, that’s why I started with that first.)
cooper
August 12, 2006 at 9:13 pm
29Sharon, since you’re a librarian (of distinction) you know what to do with those half-read and just-started books - file ‘em!
Increase Mather
August 13, 2006 at 7:35 am
30I concureth with Mr. Ratzinger above. Fie upon transgressing Jehovah’s will.
Cotton Mather
August 13, 2006 at 7:50 am
31Jeez, dad, will you knock it off? You’re mortifying me here! And it’s Herr Ratzinger, for goodness sake! Get it right, willst thou?
Jerry Mathers at The Beaver
August 13, 2006 at 9:49 am
32Gee, Wally. How’s a guy supposed to have any fun?
Increase Mather
August 13, 2006 at 10:38 am
33FUN?? HAH!
Ann
August 14, 2006 at 4:26 pm
34SeattleDan,
Since I brought up the original marriage post, I thought I should look at it again, too. The comments go on forever! But what really struck me was that I didn’t contribute at all. I must have been too shy. Murray really pulled out the big guns–I can’t wait to meet him at Grouseland!
SeattleDan
August 14, 2006 at 6:32 pm
35It is an amazing thread, Ann. Thanks for sharing it.
Murray
August 14, 2006 at 9:31 pm
36Gee, I hope I don’t disappoint you all. Actually I see that as inevitable, but what the hell.
BTW I’ve already ordered the keg, and will be placing my order for MM, good Champaign, and Famous Grouse (Scotch). Feel free to bring your own favorite and we will have a taste off.
Seattle Dan will be sending a pile of Adam’s books, so if you haven’t already ordered your book from him, you can pick one up here.
I have a dozen rooms reserved at the Day’s Inn, and the Campground is getting its nails polished in anticipation. We will have a projector and screen so bring your power points and favorite slides on a CD or DVD. If any of you have a video you want to show bring that. I’ll be showing clips from my video “The Smart Person’s Guide to Mountain Biking” featuring future congressman Tony Barr.
Still working on the T shirt. (not me).
Oh, where are my manners? Congratulations Chris and Susannah. If you do it right marriage is the best thing in your life.
siobhan
August 15, 2006 at 8:33 am
37Murray, last night I went through the July 03 saga. Impressive.
I wonder how Big Mo is doing, now that he’s graduated from high school, and I wonder if any of the discussion lingered with him? It’s easier to have way-solid beliefs about sexuality before you’ve had much experience in the area. I also wonder if he still thinks the goverment should be focussing its eneriges on the issue of gay marriage, or if maybe he sees some higher priorities (being that he’s now of enlistment age)?
We’re coming up on our 19th anniversary next month, and I guess if two heterosexuals can stay married that long in San Francisco, it’s possible anywhere.
Murray
August 15, 2006 at 10:30 am
38Sibohan,
Now that I substitute teach I REALLY know how futile it is to argue with teenagers (or even hope that that have retained anything said to them). Like pushing sand upstream.
In our congressional race we will offer our opponent the finest meal he has ever eaten if he can come up with one hetro marriage that was threatened or destroyed by a gay marriage. If he can’t come up with one it’s because there aren’t any, and if there aren’t any then the issue doesn’t exist, and why talk about nonexistent issues when there are real ones that need solving.
siobhan
August 15, 2006 at 1:39 pm
39If he does come up with an example, it will probably be a couple whose marriage fell apart when one of them gave up the facade and came out (or, in the the phrasing of the ‘phobes: “decided” to become gay). In other words, a marriage that wouldn’t have occurred in the first place if the gay spouse had been free to marry who they really loved, rather than trying to force themselves to fit some one else’s notions of normal. * sigh *