Andrew Gleason | The Sun Magazine

Andrew Gleason

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Andrew Gleason is the reader services specialist at The Sun and a comedian who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He wants to be a writer, a visual artist, and feared by the powers that be.

— From May 2024
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Occupation: Fool

Any comedian will tell you, losing an audience’s attention for even a split second can snowball. Handle it wrong, and you may die onstage like Elvis on the toilet, like Lenny Bruce beside the toilet, like William Howard Taft in a bathtub near a toilet.

May 2024
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