Daniel Okrent, Peter Gethers yuk it up with their off-Broadway show 'Old Jews

May 18th, 2012

“Without being pretentious, without turning it into anything major, we wanted it to be a show that was not just jokes but a show that was partly about jokes and about humor.” It's inspired by the website OldJewsTellingJokes.com and Okrent and Gethers
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With '1600 Penn,' Jason Winer goes from 'Modern Family' to political humor

May 18th, 2012
By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun Talk about instant success. Baltimore native Jason Winer doesn't even have a name yet for his Hollywood production company. But he and his two co-creators, "The Book of Mormon" Broadway star Josh Gad and former White
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Humor & Satire: Mr. Bouchard's Guide to Graduating

May 18th, 2012

By Jean-Luc Bouchard As a rising junior and non-empathic sociopath, it's difficult for me to place myself in a senior's soon-to-be-graduating shoes. But according to the roughly eight thousand Facebook and SayAnything posts I've read, graduation is
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Ellen DeGeneres named Mark Twain Prize recipient

May 18th, 2012

Ellen DeGeneres, the award-winning comedian and talk show host, has been selected by the Kennedy Center to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Ellen, as she is known to the millions who watch her syndicated talk show,
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Friday Humor: Final Chance For Fed Flight Lessons | ZeroHedge

May 18th, 2012

The social bubble may be on the verge of popping, but that doesn't mean that various soon to be extinct offshots can't provide cheap bang for the taxpayer buck .
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Consult 'The Human Resources Manager' for dark humor, satire

May 18th, 2012

It's a picaresque tale that is as full of gallows humor as it is rife with unexpectedly poignant moments. "The Human Resources Manager," which was directed by Eran Riklis ("The Lemon Tree") and based on the novel "A Woman in Jerusalem," never blossoms
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Reggie Watts finds 'perfect blend' of humor and music

May 18th, 2012

Watts delivers music and humor with a number of accents and a thought process that comes straight out of left field. He creates strange soundscapes and hits the mike with twisted and, at times, inscrutable humor. Much of his act is improvised.
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Some French Economic Humor « International Liberty

May 18th, 2012

Having written several times about crazy French statism, you will understand why I like this cartoon. Though, to be fair, France hasn't gotten to the point where it's
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Humor in Design

May 18th, 2012

Humor is a funny thing (puns!). It manifests differently in every person and culture and yet it elicits the same emotional reaction within all of us: laughter and
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