Comedy

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Taking the Stage for Improvisational Comedy

Danny Groner | Posted 01.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jokes, Kathy Griffin, Comics, Humor, Stand-Up, Writing, Improv, Comedy Writing, Joke, Comic, New Years 2008, Times Square, Comedians, Stand-Up Comedy, Sense of Humor, Snl, Comedy, Improvisation, Entertainment News

I enrolled in a free introduction to improv course at a local theater this week to spend time working with talented performers.

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2008's Most Laughable Political Antics

Daniel Kurtzman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Obama Gaffes, Mccain Gaffes, Humor, Mccain, Late Night Jokes, Obama, 2008 Election, Palin, Conan O'Brien, Politics, Barack Obama, Jay Leno, Political Humor, Sarah Palin, Jimmy Kimmel, Palin Gaffes, John McCain, Year in Review, Bill Maher, David Letterman, Government Bailout, Political Comedy, Bailout, Comedy, George Bush, George W. Bush, Eliot Spitzer, 2008, Viral Video, Tina Fey Sarah Palin, Katie Couric, John Edwards, Biden Gaffes, Bill Clinton, Bush, Sarah Palin Katie Couric, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Joe Biden, Bush Shoe Throw, Rod Blagojevich, Joe the Plumber, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin Turkey Pardon, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey, Best of 2008, Politics News, Political Antics, Political Satire, Video, Most Laughable Political Antics, 2008 New Year, 2008 Political Scandals, Political Scandals, Lists, Politics News

In a story about potential vice presidential picks, the AP referred to Joe Lieberman as "the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000."

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SNL's Classic Coke Year

Dennis Perrin | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: 1978, 1970's SNL, Dan Ackroyd, New York, Humor, Jane Curtain, The Samurai, Kate Bush, Comedy Writing, Devo, Saturday Night Live Fourth Season, Rickie Lee Jones, Music, Coke, New York City Eighties, Gilda Radner, Steve Martin, Emmy, John Belushi, Talking Heads, Snl, The Coneheads, New York City Seventies, Ornette Coleman, Saturday Night Live, The Nerds, Tina Fey, Laraine Newman, Peter Tosh, Comedy, Cocaine, Entertainment News

Little wonder that Tina Fey says she would've been frightened to work on the original SNL. It wasn't for the faint-hearted.

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Burma's Junta Doesn't See Humor in Zargana's Comedy

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 12.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Freedom of Speech, US Election, Marc Kielburger, Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, Craig Kielburger, Comedy, Burma, Home News

When it comes to comedian Zargana, no one's laughing. Any person who has ever performed knows how hard this can be. In comedy, moments of silence fee...

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Sarah Palin Offers to Govern Illinois, Also

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Candidate Number 5, Rod Blagojevich, Sarah Palin, Political Commentary, Political Satire, Comedy, Politics News

Governor Palin illustrated a few of the similarities in governing Alaska and Illinois. "When Alaska was free, we gave what for to the states down there and Illinoisites are doin' the same thing."

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Why Every Snarky Blogger Should Thank Don Rickles (and What They Still Have to Learn from Him)

John Mayer | Posted 12.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Blogosphere, John Mayer, Don Rickles, Gossip Blogs, Blogging, Comedy, Entertainment Blogs, Entertainment News

Snarky gossip bloggers, take heed: you will never have a better knack for cutting people down than Don Rickles does, and you owe much of your success to the groundwork laid by him.

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Ebony and Irony: Think Critically, or Hope?

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 12.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Carlin, Irony, America, Hope, Barack Obama, Comedians, Entertainment, Comedy, Entertainment News

It isn't that hope or irony are wrong, what's wrong is that we think we need to pit them against each other, and that they can't co-exist. The old lines in the sand are being erased on every level.

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Chicago Wins!

Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.09.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Senate, Rod Blagojevich, Humor, Satire, Chicago, Illinois, Scandal, Comedy, Blagojevich Corruption, Chicago Tribune, Chicago News

Hey New York: Suck it! If Blagojevich ever resigns, you can guarantee he'll be receiving oral sex under the podium as he delivers the announcement, just to stick it to Spitzer.

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Automotive Chiefs Announce Further Restructuring, Closing Ohio

Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business

Over the last few years, sustaining Ohio has become less profitable for automakers. When the state began to run at a loss, the Big Three began selling off pieces to Germany and Japan.

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The Onion Bashes Bush (Literally)

HuffPost | Dan Duray | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Black Humor, The Onion, Comedy, George W. Bush, Onion Bush, Onion, Media News

For the past few weeks, the popular satire newspaper The Onion has been running stories in this briefs section that put the outgoing president throug...

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Deep Franken Thoughts, with Jack Handey

Dave Maass | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Minnesota Senate Race, Saturday Night Live, Minnesota, Al Franken, Jack Handey, Comedy, Politics News

Legendary comedic deep thinker and Santa Fe resident Jack Handey shares his thoughts on the possibility Al Franken, his former SNL co-worker, winning Minnesota's Senate seat.

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WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel Goes to Black Barbershop to Vet Jokes On Obama

Sean Jacobs | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Jimmy Kimmel, Election 2008, Comedy, Presdential Election Race Issue, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Video, Media News

Jimmy Kimmel goes to a black barbershop to vet jokes on Barack Obama and forgets to pay for his haircut.

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Free Zarganar

Buddy Winston | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Burma Human Rights, Comedians, Human Rights, Burma, Comic, Comedy, Civil Rights, Zarganar, Home News

Popular Burmese comic Zarganar has received a 45 year prison sentence by the Burma government for violating the Electronics Act, which regulates elec...

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David Brenner at Zanies: "This is What Comedy Was Meant to Do"

Donald Liebenson | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Steve Martin, Comedy, The Tonight Show, Rodney Dangerfield, David Brenner, George Carlin, Stand-Up, Zanies, David Brenner Zanies, Chicago Comedy, Chicago News

Name a comedy personage, and Brenner likely has a story about him. Steve Martin credits Brenner with advising him how to make the transition from opening act to headliner.

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Experts Insist Recent Sightings of Mythical "Democratic Spine" Just Another Hoax

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 11.20.2008 | Entertainment

Unlike the Abominable Snowman, scientists say the Spine of the Democratic Party is more than a fairy tale. Incredible as it seems, the legend of Democratic Backbone is based on historical fact.

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The Obama Administration vs. Political Comedy

Tina Dupuy | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Valerie Plame, Political Comedy, Karl Rove, Bob Novack, Barack Obama, Satire, Obama's Cabinet, Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush, Comedy, Bill Maher, Media News

Comedy -- or at least political satire -- speaks truth to power. It's much better when that power isn't tapping your phone without a warrant and suspending habeas corpus. The Bill of Rights: Good for Comedy.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House-- Not

Sara Catania | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Humor Politics, Breaking Media News, Political Analysis, Comedy Central, Comedy, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News, Media, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

Comedy's Obama Problem It's been more than a week now since our historic presidential election, and comedians are suffering a serious case of Republi...

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Bob Newhart Video

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike Tv, Bob Newhart, Comedy, Entertainment News

Here's Bob Newhart's first internet video. It was done for to raise money for those non-writers hurt by the writers' strike, and now it's been taken over by the Actors Fund, a similar charity.

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How Do I Thank Thee, Sarah Palin?

Erica Heller | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Comedy, Humor, Alaska, Election, Politics, Sarah Palin, Tv, 2008 Election, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Richard Lewis, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Joe Biden, Nafta, Katie Couric, American Idol, Politics News

How do I Thank Thee, Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways... (With profound apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

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Notes from a Dad of Children Like Barack

Roderick Spencer | Posted 11.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Politics, Race, Relationships, Election Night, Personal, Comedy, Barack Obama, Family, Love, John McCain, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Joe Biden, Election Results, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Election, Presidential Results, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Presidential Election, Election Analysis, Living News

The proof of my children's lack of anxiety over their racial identity, is the amused, slightly puzzled way they watched their parents bawling our eyes out in front of Barack Obama's victory speech last night.

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If GOP Steals the Election, November 5 May Be the Day Obama Gets Too Black For America

Nato Green | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Humor, Black Voters, Satire, Racism, Voter Fraud, 2008 Election, Comedy, Barack Obama, Voting, Politics News

Those of us concerned about democracy, and about winning, should prepare not to leave Obama in the awkward position of being the first black candidate and defending black voters' right to vote.

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Who Says Feminists Aren't Funny?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living

Read More: John McCain, Feminism, Polticial Humor, Gloria Steinem, Ms. Foundation for Women, Humor, Tina Fey, Comedy, Sarah Palin, Living News

Feminists have often been accused of not having a sense of humor, but how could they survive without one?

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Freakazoid! This Weekday Afternoon Cartoon is Better Than You Remembered.

Alex Remington | Posted 10.20.2008 | Entertainment

Stylistically somewhere between the great superhero parody The Tick and Marx Brothers-style vaudeville, Freakazoid! was absurd, nonsensical, but absolutely hilarious.

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Friday Talking Points [52] -- What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Roast, White House, Tim Russert, John Lewis, Checkers, Mccain, Session, Campaign, Sarah Palin, Alfred E Neuman, How Democrats Can Take Back Congress, Greek Column, 2008, Richard Nixon, Tears, Bite, Midotw, Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Foley, Al Smith, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Jake Speck, Miss Beazley, Humor, Conservative, Lipstick on a Pig, Joe Biden, 08, O'Reilly, Pit Bull, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Kick Around, John LeBoutillier, Manger, Elections, Mddotw, George Wallace, Hillary Clinton, Nixon, Page, Bit, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, Tim Mahoney, Sex Scandal, Sherrod Brown, Mistress, Grateful Dead, Obama, Fox, Bush, Pelosi, Giuliani, Clinton, Senator, Mark Foley, Tricky Dick, Ohio, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Hush Money, Comedy, That One, Boot's Blasts, Bill Clinton, John McCain, House, 2008 Elections, Lame Duck, Scandal, 2008 Election, Bush Bashing, Pull Teeth, Eternal Sunshine, Meet the Press, 08 Campaign, Cry, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Hannity, Bloomberg, Fox News, Leboutillier, Jor-El, Krypton, Nobama, Mahoney, Politics News

I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...

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McCain's First Day in Office

Brad Mirman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Comedy, Political Satire, Mccain, Oval Office, Satire, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Politics News

"Oh my God! She has... Talking-Point-Syndrome!"

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