 He wrote for Texas Monthly back when Texas Monthly was a very good magazine. But mostly he said things that made people laugh, but uncomfortable. His band was called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys. He made a lot of plays on being Jewish, and people didn't know if they were allowed to laugh or not. But the point was to laugh. It was a play on Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. He was Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys. And everybody in his band had a funny name.