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To Simulate the Experience of Attending the Gridiron Dinner, We Suggest Strapping Yourself to a Chair and Playing a Capitol Steps Album On Repeat

Monday, March 13th, 2006

friarsclub.JPGWe were going to go to the Gridiron Dinner, but it was such a nice night out, we decided to give it a miss and drink on a rooftop instead. Oh, and it turns out bloggers aren’t invited. But we don’t feel too slighted to have missed the dinner, a glorified office Christmas party in which every year they rouse the surviving members of Carson’s writing staff and put them to work retrofitting hundred-year-old punchlines with torn-from-the-headlines topical references. MORE »