I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

Martin. After graduation in 1883 Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day.

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27 1862 – January 21 1922) was an American author editor and satirist.