iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Mort Sahl

Jews Reveal Our Secrets to Controlling the Banks (VIDEO)

Nato Green | Posted 04.03.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Literature, Jews, Female Authors, Parenting, Mothers, Bay Area, Comic Books, Authors, Super Heroes, Comedians, Stereotypes, Jewish, Satire, Ayelet Waldman, Purim, San Francisco, Mort Sahl, Video, San Francisco News
Nato Green

To get the Jewish side of the story, I paid a visit to the Purim carnival at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center to hear from Jews in their natural habitat.

Read Whole Story

Time to Clip the Right Wing's Wings

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.06.2012 | Media
Read More: Rush Limbaugh, AM Radio, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, Larry Bowa, Johnny Carson, Bernie Parent, Hbo, Irv Homer, Joe the Nerd, George Carlin, Gerald Ford, Don Imus, Tom Dempsey, Michael Smerconish, Bernie Herman, Temple U, Bill Maher, Mort Sahl, Doug Favell, Media News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

In 8th grade, I was an odd kid from Chester, PA. I listened to news (KYW) and talk radio (WCAU) as much as country music (WEEZ) and rock (WFIL and WI...

Read Whole Story

Jon Stewart Is Definitely A Comedian; Chris Wallace Admits Fox's Bias

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.21.2011 | Media
Read More: Lloyd Bentsen, Video, Msnbc, Rush Limbaugh, Chris Wallace Jon Stewart, Lenny Bruce, Johnny Carson, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Show, Fox News Sunday, George Carlin, Chris Wallace, Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart Fox, Cnn, Dan Quayle, Jon Stewart Chris Wallace, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace, Will Rogers, NY Times, Mark Twain, Huffington Post, Bill O'Reilly, John Stewart, Mort Sahl, David Letterman, Media News
Andy Ostroy

Jon Stewart is a true genius. But he's a comic genius. And without even being a true journalist he brilliantly managed to do what no one else has done: get Fox to admit that it's a politically biased television network.

Read Whole Story

Send in the Clowns

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Paris, Milton Berle, Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Sid Cesar, Washington DC, Stephen Colbert, Lenny Bruce, Democrats, Mort Sahl, Jack Benny, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

What's exciting or funny about an economic recession, rampant unemployment, homelessness, and poverty? Marie-Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake." Stewart and Colbert said, "Send in the clowns."

Read Whole Story

Dick Gregory and the Rally for Sanity

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dick Gregory, Joe the Nerd, Steven Colbert, Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart, Father Guido Sarducci, O'Jays, Coffee Party, Mort Sahl, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Stewart/Colbert Concert was great! The people in the crowd were as awesome as the acts on stage. How much fun it was to do the wave for an actua...

Read Whole Story

1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

Read Whole Story

Fey's Fantastic, But Never The Twain She'll Meet

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Bob Newhart, Billy Crystal, Ernest Hemingway, Huckleberry Finn, Le Show, Family Guy, Stephen Colbert, Harry Shearer, The Simpsons, Gilda Radner, 30 Rock, Snl, Carlyle, Chris Rock, New York Times, Glenn Beck, Moon River, Matt Groening, Tina Fey, Mark Twain, Lily Tomlin, Lucille Ball, South Park, Mort Sahl, Whoopi Goldberg, Kennedy Center, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News
Michael Sigman

I love Tina Fey, but there was something a bit Obama-getting-the-Nobel-Priz-ish about the news that she'll receive the 2010 Mark Twain Prize for Humor...

Read Whole Story

GOP Politicians, Pundits Face Class Action Suit For Self Parody

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Gop, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Seriously, Wtf, Comedy, Parody, Carrot Top, Mort Sahl, Bill Maher, Political Humor, Comedy News
Lee Stranahan

Papers filed by humorists in Federal Court accuse the GOP, conservative bloggers, Fox News, and CNBC of "crossing the line in self parody" and "creating a situation that is difficult to satire" by acting "so effing weird."

Read Whole Story