Fidelity Fires Four for Playing Fantasy Football : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 17, 2009

Shelly Palmer, 12.18.2009

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

You can never be too safe, especially when gambling on the web.

$150 Bottle of Beer on the Wall, $150 Bottle of Beer!

Gregory Daurer, 11.30.2009

Freelance writer and photojournalist based in Denver

Samuel Adams Utopias is said to be the world's strongest beer: at 27% alcohol by volume, it's more than five times stronger than a Budweiser. A dark amber liquid with a tinge of a rose, when held up to the light.

Nathan Rabin's "The Big Rewind" Needed a Little Re-Edit

Alex Remington, 11.13.2009

Pop culture lover and Yahoo Sports baseball blogger

Emotional honesty is a lot harder to take seriouslywhen you constantly undercut it by using the same hoary one-liners and jokes from Mr. Show.

The Onion: just as divisive as regular news, now with new book

Andrea Chalupa, 10.29.2009

Editor at Walletpop

Everyone's favorite satirical news source, The Onion, is coming out with a brand new book, Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, And Moral R...

Interview: Talking Obsessions with the Big Fan Guys

Marshall Fine, 10.16.2009

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

In Big Fan, which opened in limited release last week, Oswalt and Corrigan play a pair of Staten Island buddies who are obsessed with the New York Giants.

Narcissism, Key Ingredient in Success of Social Media

Val Brown, 09.18.2009

Marketing Consultant, Writer, Producer

We hear more about the new paradigm in human communication that social media has spawned than about the real driver in the phenomenal growth of these sites: basic human narcissism.

The Kiss Cam Isn't for Same-Sex Kisses... Except When Same-Sex Kisses are Funny

Etan Bednarsh, 08.27.2009

Is it right to treat same sex couples differently from male-female couples? And ultimately, why do we have "Kiss Cams" in the first place?

The Weird Have Turned Pro

Garrett Johnson, 08.24.2009

Freelance writer

The amount of money required to bail the world out of the current economic crisis, if this crisis plays out at a historical average, is nearly equal to all the private wealth currently in the world.

June 2 2009: News Update revised

Richard Valeriani, 07.04.2009

Former NBC News correspondent

President Obama apparently liked his presidential Cadillac limousine so much he decided to take over the company. CIC (Commander-in-Chief) now also CSIC (Car-Salesman-in-Chief).

Shouldn't That Be His Royal Highness, the "Addled Lord of Print?"

Phil Bronstein, 06.05.2009

Executive Vice President and Editor-at-Large, San Francisco Chronicle

When great satire can't make it anymore in the printed newspaper world, that's not so funny here in the belly of the Chronicle and at other publications.

Surviving the Obama Comedy Crisis: A Report From the Front Lines

Daniel Kurtzman, 02.19.2009

What's in store for political humor in the age of Obama? Will he be the president who presides over the bursting of the comedy bubble? Or can he find a way to bail out the comedy industry too?

Can Netroots Entertainers Galvanize Youth Vote?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, 11.01.2008

Variety's Wilshire and Washington

If the financial market doesn't implode first, the media may just explode in anticipation of the VP debate. Are expectations so low at this point that Sarah Palin wins just by showing up and sounding intelligent?

This Week's Internet Diversions

Jack Donaldson, 07.31.2008

Another collection of the trivial, the inane, the entertaining, and the viral, including Jay-Z at Glastonbury, a New Yorker's worst fears of LA come true, and favorites from the Onion.

Onion Buys ABC News

Gershom Gorenberg, 06.06.2008

The Onion has bought out ABC's news division. That was my first thought when I read Rachael Ray, the talk-show host... is a terrorist sympathizer?

The Onion and South Park Explore the Terror Threat

John McQuaid, 03.28.2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on science, environment, government

Since 9/11, the threat of terrorism has had an outsized grip on our imaginations -- a much bigger one than it has on the reality of daily life, the indignities of airport security notwithstanding.

Pro-Life Site Takes The Onion For A Serious Publication

Stephen Elliott, 03.28.2008

Editor of The Rumpus

This post went up six days ago and there are nearly 1,000 comments pointing out that the Onion is a satirical paper.

Bush White House: Truth or Onion

Steve Young, 03.28.2008

Talk show host, author, oped-columnist, television writer, and filmmaker

It's tough enough to make a living writing funny, did the administration have to create a Comedy Development Department?