{"id":3161,"date":"2026-08-25T02:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2026-08-25T02:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:11:49","slug":"illustration-the-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"Illustration: The Comedians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Once upon a time (that time being around 1980), a magazine in south Florida called <i>Easy Times<\/i> hired me to paint a cover for an issue that focused on a small group of hot young comedians. And so \u201cThe Comedians,\u201d as I named it, was born. In this blast-from-the-past, see how many of them you can identify. If you get them all, you&#8217;re probably as ancient as I am.<\/p>\n<p>(My thanks in particular to Muffy McClung Berlyn, the editor at that time who green-lighted the cover.)<br \/>\n-gf<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3168\" src=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-821x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-1231x1536.jpg 1231w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-1641x2048.jpg 1641w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Comedians.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time (that time being around 1980), a magazine in south Florida called Easy Times hired me to paint a cover for an issue that focused on a small group of hot young comedians. And so \u201cThe Comedians,\u201d as I named it, was born. In this blast-from-the-past, see\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=3161\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593,4,5],"tags":[37,227],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caricature","category-illustration","category-images","tag-humor","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}