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Sahil Kapur

John Oliver Rips Beck, Limbaugh: "Kind Of A Joke In Themselves"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mainstream Media, Comedy, Oliver Beck, Campus Progress, John Oliver, Daily Show, Rush Limbaugh, Oliver Media, Oliver Limbaugh, Media, Humor, Glenn Beck, Comedy News

The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier on the notion that he's something of a journalist. "I watch cab...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lynn Shelton on Humpday

Dan Persons | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pornography, Joshua Leonard, Lynn Shelton, Emotions, Marriage, Homosexuality, Amateur Porn, Sex, Homophobia, Gay, Bromance, Porn, Comedy, Mark Duplass, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In Humpday, two friends back themselves into a corner when they resolve to make an amateur porn video together, examining the straight male's anxiety over his nascent gay side.

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Study Shows What Everyone Knew Already

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 07.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Comedy and Satire, Study Shows What We Already Know, Nielsen Study, Humor, Humor and Satire, Satire, Comedy, Nielsen, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

"The data shows definitively that the expected outcome of this study did indeed occur," said a statistician with Nielsen group. "We're as completely nonplussed about it as you are."

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Why I Am Resigning

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Sarah Palin Resignation, Comedy, Sarah Palin, Comedy News
Robert J. Elisberg

It's said that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And that's why, since I'm tough, I'm going. Because I'm not a quitter.

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On The Streets: The 'Truth' About Hybrid Cars (VIDEO)

Jonathan Kesselman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 23/6: Comedy News, Alternative Energy, Comedy, Jonathan Kesselman, Hybrid Cars, Green Living, Comedy News
Jonathan Kesselman

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Ricky Gervais: I Can't Stand Brit Comedy; America's Is Better

The Sun | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais British Comedy, Comedy, Comedy News

In a scathing attack he also claimed American comedy is more sophisticated than home-grown attempts at humor. ...

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Believer, Beware "Gets" The Funny (And Poignant) Side of Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Fundamentalism, Religion, Writers, Books, Transgendered, Jeff-Sharlet, Religious Right, Comedy, Gay Issues, Living News
Frank Schaeffer

Believer Beware is laugh out loud funny, touching, irreverent and yet, in deeper ways, pays religion the ultimate compliment: it's worthy of scrutiny, debate, hate, and love.

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You Can't Spell Sarah Palin Without Anal Rash

Una LaMarche | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Sanford, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Comedy, Sarah Palin, Comedy News
Una LaMarche

Joe Biden turned up the simplest and, some might say, most revealing anagram: "Job need I."

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Q&A: Harold Ramis Goes from Ghostbusting To Getting Primitive Directing Year One

Brad Balfour | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Year One, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, National Lampoon's Animal House, Writer/Director, Ghostbusters, Comedy, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Andy Samberg, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Before a small group of comedy-infused journos, veteran funnyman, director/writer Harold Ramis spent over an hour not just talking about his latest co...

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Vatican Investigating American Nuns; Dan Brown to "Write" Novel About It

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 07.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Vatican-Investigating-Us-Catholic-Sisters, Ron Howard, Comedy and Satire, Humor, Satire, The DaVinci Code, Vatican Investigation, Ron Howard Davinci Code, American Nuns, Humor and Satire, Comedy, Dan Brown, Dan Brown Davinci Code, Us Nuns, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

The fact that the investigation around which his new novel will be based has not yet taken place did not seem to faze Dan Brown.

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Canadian New Yorkers Unite

Donna Fish | Posted 07.02.2009 | New York

Read More: Canadians and Comedy, Canadian Association of NY, Canada Day, Comedy, Subway Sandwiches, New York News
Donna Fish

The other night I attended my first Canadian Association of New York event.

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Give it Away, Give it Away, Give it Away, Now!

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 07.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Reality TV, Celebreality, Reality Television, Top Chef Masters Charities, Comedy and Satire, Charity, Humor, Donating, Top Chef Masters, Celebrity Reality Television, Celeb Reality Tv, Comedy, Humor and Satire, Charities, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

Summer's in full swing, which means low-level "celebrities" competing for "charities" of their "choice."

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The Six Crazy People You Meet on the New York Subway

Una LaMarche | Posted 06.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Crazy, New York, Subway, Comedy, New York News
Una LaMarche

Living in a city like New York that is overflowing with people, it is hard not to become a sort of amateur anthropologist.

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How To Live On $0 A Day: The Next Big Thing In Marketing -- Anti-Social Media

Lesley Stern | Posted 06.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Depression, Twitter, Superbowl, Humor, Social Networking, Media, Facebook, Recession, Social Media, Financial Meltdown, Mobile Technology, Satire, Financial Crisis, Marketing, Comedy, Mobile Media, Advertising, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

With traditional media facing extinction and a disheartened, disinterested public, Toilet Paper Messaging (TPM) has emerged as one of the most effective marketing tools out there.

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The Uncomfortable Circle: Iran?

Xeth Feinberg | Posted 06.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Iran, Cartoon, Health Care, Iran Election, Comedy, Health, Xeth, Political Cartoons, Comedy News
Xeth Feinberg

A political cartoon by Xeth Feinberg.

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Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC) Makes Full Apology

Jane Condon | Posted 06.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Infidelity, Mark Sanford, Apology, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Sanford Affair, Comedy, Comedy News
Jane Condon

I want to apologize to my staff because I said that it was possible that I would be off hiking the Appalachian Trail, when I know full well that the Appalachian Trail does not run through Argentina.

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Mark Sanford: The Twittersphere Reacts

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Comedy, Mark Sanford, Sanford Affair, Mark Sanford Twitter, Sanford Tweets, Politics, Jokes, Twitter, Tweets, Humor, Mark Sanford Tweets, Comedy News

Thousands of tweets were sent via Twitter in the wake of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's admission that he spent this weekend in Argentina where he...

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"Where I Was" by Governor Mark Sanford

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 06.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Sanford Beunos Aires, Mark Sanford, Mark Sanford Argentina, Comedy, Comedy News
Ian Gurvitz

I was taking tango lessons so I could take my wife dancing for her birthday. It was going to be a surprise, so thanks for screwing that up.

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How to Live on $0 A Day: Taking Your Life Back From Creditors

Lesley Stern | Posted 06.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Humor, Satire, Amex, Economy, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Citibank, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Credit Card Debt, Credit Rating, Comedy, Personal Finance, Financial Advice, Bailout, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

Say you stop wasting your entire unemployment check on the hedonistic pleasure of protecting your precious credit rating. Instead, you're going to try eating, and maybe splurge on health insurance.

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A Happy Medium

Una LaMarche | Posted 06.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Fame, Acting, Personals, Movies, Comedy, Comedy News
Una LaMarche

I have always wanted to be discovered in a supermarket. Notice I say "discovered"--I have always wanted to be famous but have never wanted to try for it, stuck as I am in an ever-vacillating battle between fear and laziness.

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Behind the Scenes At The White House: The AMA Weighs In On Healthcare Policy Reform

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 06.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, White House, American Medical Association, Living News, Health Care, Comedy, Wellness, Health, Politics, Living News
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

The AMA debate on health care: The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.

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The Hangover: I'm Over It.

Sarah Greenwalt | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tina Fey, Films, Comedy, The Hangover, Women in Comedy, Zach Galifianakis, Entertainment News
Sarah Greenwalt

When will us girls get our own immature, perverted, inappropriate, screwy and hilarious buddy comedy?

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What Else "Wouldn't" He Hurt? On Flies and Presidents...

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 06.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama Mustard, Humor, Obama PETA, Cheese, Obama, Peta, Obama LOTR, Nra, Comedy and Satire, Nambla, Satire, Obama Burgers, Lord of the Rings, Madd, Obama Fly Peta, Obama Fly, Obama Swats Fly, Comedy, Humor and Satire, Lotr, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

Obama may have a charming off-hand manner, an intellect that rivals the combined IQs of his predecessor and predecessor's cabinet taken en masse, and a hot wife, but this is a man who would hurt a fly, with impunity.

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Has Change Come to the South?

David Parker | Posted 06.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New Orleans, French Quarter, Pork, Mississippi, Comedy, Seafood, Seersucker, Comedy News
David Parker

In the French Quarter, bartenders still look like strippers, strippers still look like prostitutes and prostitutes still look like, well, they also look like prostitutes.

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Seeing Stars in Chicago, Just For Laughs

Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 23/6: Comedy News, Tbs, Chicago, Very Funny Show, Ellen Degeneres, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Just for Laughs, Snl, Robert Smigel, Andy Dick, Martin Short, Comedy, Comedy News
Sean L. McCarthy

Robert Smigel still enjoys sticking his hand into a dog puppet and insulting famous people, particularly now that famous people are on Twitter. Such as Oprah. Yes. He pooped on Oprah.

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