Category Archives: Humor

Jewish Humor

Robert Fulford reviews No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (Princeton University Press) Ruth R. Wiss: Irony arises from contradiction and the Jews for many centuries lived a profound contradiction: While believing they were the Chosen People, they were treated as pariahs … Continue reading

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Hitler Teapot

Here’s the meme-of-the-moment — the Michael Graves teapot sold at JC Penney, which has been virally-nicknamed the Hitler Teapot:

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IFC Orders New Comedy Shows from Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller & Bob Odenkirk

IFC’s original programming is quickly becoming A-level: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk aren’t just the stars and producers of comedy films and television series that will live in perpetuity on DVD players, DVRs and cable-TV programming … Continue reading

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No Hablo

Via One Old Vet.

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All The President’s Men

Courtesy of Gates of Vienna

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trans*

Within academia today, the Calls For Papers (CFP) in humanities areas are still as hilariously pomo as they were in the early ’90s. It’s still difficult to tell apart a real pomo abstract vs. something spit out by the Postmodern … Continue reading

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Marc Maron

An article on Marc Maron, whose time is now I think. Last week, I just caught the premiere of his new show Maron (Fridays at 10 pm EST on IFC), and it was f-ng great.

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Large Joint

Police confiscate a 2.5lb doobie at Porter Meadows during the annual UC Santa Cruz campus-wide smoke out on 4/20.

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Jonathan Winters

The great & multi-talented Jonathan Winters has died at the age of 87. His comedic perspective and style was completely unique, a skewed improvisationalism that was almost bizarre.

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SNL Starbucks Skit

SNL had a rarity recently: a skit that pivots on the racial stereotype (truism) that blacks are often lazy and incompetent employees. And wouldn’t you know it: Gothamist (an “urbane city blog”, aka self-hating white liberals), Latino Rebels, and BET … Continue reading

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