The trouble with John Kerry is that he is clearly in love with his own voice and does not know when to stop talking. While in the senate, he was notorious for long droning speeches at committee hearings that often resulted in him running out his allotted time before he could ask questions of the people before the panel. The Daily Show lampooned his performances back in 2009. [Read more…]
There is a new web comedy series Ask A Slave where actress Azie Mira Dungey, who used to work as a ‘living history’ character at George Washington’s plantation in Mount Vernon, re-enacts some of the questions she was asked by tourists.
You know how people say that there are no stupid questions? We might want to rethink that. [Read more…]
He talks about the impending war against Syria and, unlike most news outlets, in just a few minutes manages to remind us of the similarity of the drive of this latest war to wars of the past, the hypocrisy of US policy, and the absurd arguments being given in favor of this latest war. [Read more…]
Jesus and Mo disagree as to whether it can be done.
Sometimes, we need a bit of dark humor to get through periods of political darkness. Humorist Andy Borowitz has the scoop on the reasons that Obama is considering bombing Syria.
Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have “no objective whatsoever.” [Read more…]
President Obama’s defenses of the NSA programs are becoming increasingly risible. Cartoonists Tom Tomorrow and Ted Rall get in their licks on this tempting target, while in this clip Stephen Colbert takes his turn at mocking him. [Read more…]
There is something about Jason Jones’s goofy oblivious shtick that I find funny. Here he plays it to the hilt.
(This clip aired on August 13, 2013. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
Joseph Smith explains to Mr. Deity how the wrote the Book of Mormon.