Michael Showalter is perhaps best known for co-writing and starring in Wet Hot American Summer, the seminal camp movie send-up that featured everyone from Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd, to Bradley Cooper and Janeane Garofalo. But Showalter has been finding new ways...

Late Sunday afternoon I made some jokes on Twitter using the hashtag #Mitterature that mashed up the public persona of Mitt Romney with well-known book titles. Like "Cayman Treasure Island" or "The Wind in the Willards."

Lo and behold, three hours later

If you could spend an hour inside Mike Sacks' brain you would probably get lost. You might also find yourself giggling uncontrollably or wind up sobbing in a ball on the floor.

You would not be bored.

Sacks has written humor pieces for the New Yorker, McSweeny's and The Believer,...

Since 2009 the website Texts From Last Night has collected a million Facebook fans, over a billion page views and, above all, countless text messages.

Put together by the site's creators Lauren Leto and Ben Bator, the paper version of...

Countless articles, books and television shows have pondered the strange case of Sarah Palin, but finally someone's captured her in the right medium. If you're looking for the perfect gift for that Republican uncle this Christmas, look no further than Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring and...

Yesterday Forth Worth, TX City Councilman Joel Burns spoke out about the rash of recently reported suicides among gay teenagers as the result of bullying.

Burns spoke about his own experiences as a gay teenager and broke down describing a time when the bullying was so bad that...

"God Bless America" is a phrase so overloaded and overused that it rarely escapes cliché - unless, of course, it's delivered by a bellowing Joe Biden, his voice pitched to melodious perfection and backed up by a chorus of "Hey!"s, as...

Ok, two wars, a flailing economy, rampant financial fraud and an oozing oil slick covering the Gulf. Times are tough and things are hairy, so what better way to solve our myriad problems then by turning to our best and brightest (or toughest and tallest) for help?

Clearly I'm talking...

At a recent book-signing of Karl Rove's new memoir "Courage and Consequence", intrepid tweeter @OTOOLEFAN did some creative re-shelving:

Our hero also risked the mark of...

It's been just over a week since I first broke photographs of Sarah Palin's Tea Party crib notes. The story was swiftly picked up by blogs and gossip sites, then newspapers , then kicked around on the cable shows before receiving it's ultimate judgment at the hands of...

UPDATE: (New updates and media reactions after the photos)

Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly...

Howard Zinn - historian, professor, liberal activist and author of A People's History of the United States - passed away yesterday at 87.

I didn't know Mr. Zinn personally, but because I grew up in Wellfleet, a town in which Mr. Zinn spent much of his time, I would see...

The "mythical middle", a phrase coined, as far as I know, by Arianna Huffington during her recent appearance on Olbermann, goes to the heart of the Democrats' problems.

The first clue should be that a move to the center is what's currently being advocated by...

If the hair on your feet makes you think of Bilbo Baggins...

If you can tell a battle-axe from a halberd at 50 yards...

If you know that a Gelatinous Cube has nothing to do with JELLO...

...you might be a geek.

But what does it mean to be...

For those unfamiliar with Twitter, the micro-blogging and social networking site includes a feature called "Trending Topics". This a short list of the most talked - or "tweeted" - about topics on the site, more or less in real time.

A topic...

November 9th is an important date in German history. It marks the day that the Berlin Wall fell, 20 years ago this month, physically and symbolically uniting a dissevered nation.

The reason it's not a national holiday in Germany, is that November 9th - specifically the night of November 9th...

Well more like 20-million-hit-wonders.

On Sunday NPR reported that popular video-sharing site YouTube has begun paying those with hit videos, even if they only have one:

The online video Web site recently announced that users who create just one viral video are eligible for advertising partnerships with the...

Anecdotal Evidence: (def.) (2) Evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalizing from an insufficient amount of evidence.

There have been guns at health care town halls. Possibly rocket-launchers. There have been people waving signs comparing...

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Mel Brooks' musical The Producers premiered in Germany on Sunday at the Admiral Palast theatre in Berlin.

The musical, for those unfamiliar with it, is the story of two scheming Broadway producers, the greedy Max Bialystock and his neurotic accountant Leo Bloom,...

"What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to...