A comedian who writes for and appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers. A bestselling novelist and host of the podcast Satellite Sisters. The hilariously popular comedian and Emmy Award-winning co-host of the daytime talk show The Real. And an Emmy Award-winning and original Saturday Night Live writer and author who dedicated his newly published memoir to his late, beloved sister.
The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop would be hard pressed to find four stronger finalist judges for “Nickie’s Prize for Humor Writing” than Karen Chee, […]

Because I am full of hot air, which could earn me a spot as a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, I have learned not to sweat the small stuff.
Instead, I save it for the big stuff, like installing air conditioners, which works me into such a sweat that I need to turn them on immediately so I won’t pop like a helium balloon and go flying out the window.
That’s why this year, […]

What have I learned through the COVID-19 pandemic? I don’t know about you, but God sat me down and made me be still enough to better grasp a few concepts. I’ve learned a lot about myself and see the world around me with new eyes.
I have learned that any preventable death is one too many. If there is something, we can do to prevent one unnecessary and preventable death, we need to take action. […]

Here amidst the doom and gloom
Is a modern miracle that we call Zoom.
Due to technophobia and age
When it comes to Zoom, I am no sage.
I let others take control,
Participation is my only role.
It has become quite the treat,
Finally having a chance to meet
With friends and family and colleagues, too;
Some relationships feel brand new.
I‘ve heard some lectures, seen comedy shows,
And I can mute myself so nobody knows. […]

When it comes to housework, my wife has it maid. And she is not too proud to say that the maid is her husband.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have a little French maid’s dress, which I would happily wear except I can’t find one in my size and I’d probably fall down while vacuuming in high heels, but I am one step up from being a domestic worker.
I am, according to my wife, […]