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Posts Tagged ‘comedy’

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Alan Grayson’s “K Street Whore” Apology Is So Much Funnier Than The Actual Insult

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Yesterday the websites were very upset with Alan Grayson for calling some some Bernanke staffer a “K Street Whore.” Because yeah yeah, he’s a loose cannon and it’s like soo crazy or whatever, but “whore”? Well apparently it’s a term that’s often “correctly” viewed as offensive to women, he… deadpans? “I offer my sincere apology. I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women.” MORE »


THEATER REVIEWS

Blago Dazzles, Baffles In Satirical Show Cameo

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Human hairballAmerica’s favorite hair trap, Rod Blagojevich, appeared in a Second City comedy show on Saturday and made everybody deeply uncomfortable by either not getting the joke or getting it too much. “Everyone in the place was wondering the same thing: How could he sit there and watch himself depicted in this way? To sit sportingly through a fictional satirical critique is one thing; but in this case the material came from a federal indictment. Making ample use of tape.” Rod Blagojevich is the greatest performance artist in America since Karen Finley. [Chicago Tribune]


FILM AND STAGE

According To Comedian, DC Metro System Is ‘Tron’

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

That's our Metro.Friday, April 3: Christian Finnegan of Chapelle’s Show and Best Week Ever fame comes to DC Improv till Sunday. Listen to his comedy bit about the DC metro system, which is he says is “the fucking Tron compared to NYC subways, where there’s always someone “twisting one off in the corner.” Gross. [DC Improv] MORE »


LAUGH AT JOURNALISTS FOR FUN

Variety Show Features JournoList Rejects, Needs Your Help

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

The librul media conspiracy is accepting applications.With the leaders of the free world having group-hugged their economies into financial stability, there’s nothing much left for the journalists to Twitter about. Instead, the Washington media elite will try to be funny, for charity. Tonight, the National Press Club is hosting Commedia dell Media, an “evening of comedy” with “DC’s most respected journalists.” Hahahah, it’s hilarious already. We have preview video … and you can help Wonkette ask these people a hilarious question, tonight, at the event! MORE »


FILM AND STAGE

‘Read A Mother@#$%ing Book’

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

  • Friday, Jan 30: Poet Bomani Armah begs you not to call him a rapper at his spoken word performances, which are a cross between an underground hip hop show and an episode of HBO’s Def Poetry. His lyrics are a bit aggressive, although you know he only has the best intentions: “Read a book, read a book, read a mother@#$%ing book.” 8PM at the Artmosphere Cafe. [Bomani Armah] MORE »


HISTORICAL MOMENTS

Roland Burris Adds New Honor To His Tomb

Thursday, January 15th, 2009


Rod Blagojevich for the win! The comedy continues, as smirking creep Dick Cheney swears in megalomaniacal Death Monument-builder Roland Burris. This marks the end of racism and the Triumph of the Black Spirit. [AP]


HORRIBLE MONSTERS

Jim Lehrer Tells Creepy Stories About Cannibals, For Laughs

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Who better to promote a heart-warming comedy show than a man with a funereal demeanor and the beady, coal-black eyes of a dead shark? Nobody! Please watch Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America, lest Jim Lehrer be forced to make your faucets run with blood while he sings to you, from the sewer, wearing a clown costume. [YouTube]


INTERNAL POLITICS

John McCain Throws Sarah Palin, John McCain Under The Bus

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Here’s old Walnuts on SNL last night with Tiny Fey, as Sarah Palin. They mock their entire campaign, ha ha ha. It’s pretty funny! Especially near the end when McCain takes the floor out from under Palin’s 2012 chances. Awkward! And after the jump, another clip from Weekend Update with John McCain, because he was just bumming around that studio all night long. They probably offered him a hot meal. MORE »


SERVICE JOURNALISM

Cancel Out The Vote Of Your Paint-Huffing Neighbor!

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Here is a cute little GOTV video out of North Carolina. North Carolina is wonderful place full of halibut fishermen, drug addicts, and anti-same-sex hog coupling activists. [News & Observer]


METAPHYSICS

Sarah Palin Delivers Hilarious Sarah Palin Impersonation On ‘SNL’

Monday, October 20th, 2008

You will probably all want to see this Sarah Palin bit if you want to have something to talk about over Monday Morning Bagels with Lindsay from accounting. Here it is, for your cultural betterment: Sarah Palin palling around with liberal comedy terrorists at SNL. The funnier skit is the rap, after the jump. MORE »


THAT'S NOT FUNNY

Barack Obama Is Killing Comedy

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Comedy is not PrettyWhy does Barack Obama hate the nation’s hard-working comedians, satirists and cartoonists? That’s the important question teevee-industry reporter Bill Carter is asking today, in a New York Times piece complaining that nobody can make fun of Hopey because of hope, change, and racial transcendence. Yet the rednecks and racists are free to peck out their ALL CAPS emails and blog comments about how Barack Hussein Osama and his wife Angela Davis the Black Terrorist will turn America into some unimaginable place where black people aren’t slaves. MORE »