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[[File:Kinky friedman 2013.jpg|thumb|300px|Kinky Friedman performing at the 2013 Texas Book Festival. Photo by Larry D. Moore, used under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.]]
Musician, author and-would would-be politician, [[Kinky Friedman]] is the former leader of the band [[The Texas Jewboys]]. A friend of radio personality [[Don Imus]], he was a frequent guest on the ''Imus in the Morning'' program starting in the 1970s. He has written several murder mysteries about a musician, author and would-be politician named [[Author Avatar|Kinky Friedman]], who also dabbles in private detection. While most of the books are set in New York City, one or two are set in Texas.
 
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This is a partial list of his novels:
* ''A Case of Lone Star''
* ''Armandillos and Old Lace''
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** Finally, the narrator fears that when he tries to get into heaven, he'll be told, "Our quota's filled for this year / On singing Texas Jews, / We reserve the right to refuse service to you."
** The same goes for "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore", which starts off with an anti-semite accosting Kinky in a bar with the title phrase, and ends with Kinky punching him out with the words
{{quote| ''They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore<br />
''We don't turn the other cheek like we done before<br />
''You could hear that honky holler as he hit the hardwood floor<br />
''Lord, they ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore! }}
* [[Five-Man Band]]: The Kinkster, McGovern, Rambam, Ratso, and Stephanie DuPont.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Friedman smokes cigars. Often.
* [[Irishman and Aa Jew]]: Kinky and McGovern
* [[Our Product Sucks]]: Friedman's campaign slogans for his 2006 campaign for Texas governor included "Why The Hell Not?" and "How Hard Could It Be?"
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: In the mid-90s, he was invited to the White House and handed a Cuban cigar to [[Bill Clinton]] right in front of a bunch of reporters with the words "Don't think of it as supporting their economy, think of it as burning their crops."
* [[Third -Person Person]]: Friedman is known for referring to himself in the third person, though it's tongue-in-cheek on his part.
* [[Uncle Pennybags]]
* [[Write Who You Know]]
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