Editing James Thurber (section)

==In popular culture==
* In Season Nine, Episode 13 of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', titled “[[The Cartoon]]”, [[Elaine Benes|Elaine]] mentions learning of gossip about Thurber while interviewing for a job at ''The New Yorker''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0697670/trivia/?item=tr5122634 |title="Seinfeld" The Cartoon (TV Episode 1998) - Trivia |publisher=[[IMDB]] |access-date=August 10, 2024 |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831020404/https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0697670/trivia/?item=tr5122634 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Beginning during his own father's terminal illness, television broadcaster [[Keith Olbermann]] read excerpts from Thurber's short stories during the closing segment of his [[MSNBC]] program ''[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]'' on Fridays, which he called "Fridays with Thurber".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41201964 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123204822/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41201964 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |title=Olbermann signs off msnbc - Entertainment - Television - TODAY.com |publisher=[[MSNBC]] |access-date=May 6, 2012}}</ref> He reintroduced this during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, reading Thurber stories daily at 8:00&nbsp;p.m. EDT on Twitter, and continued on his podcast, also called ''Countdown with Keith Olbermann''.
* On an episode of [[Norm Macdonald]]'s video podcast, ''[[Norm Macdonald Live]]'', Norm tells a story in which comedian [[Larry Miller (comedian)|Larry Miller]] acknowledges that his biggest influence in comedy was Thurber.
* In 2021 film ''[[The French Dispatch]]'' by [[Wes Anderson]], he was mentioned in the end title credits as inspiration.