The TV show Seinfeld takes a look at the oft-discussed puzzle of the strange humor of some of the cartoons that appear in the New Yorker magazine and how they get selected.
Here are a couple of jokes (not from the magazine) that are not nearly as obscure but they took me a little while to get them. (The first one via reader Norm.)
You may recall that I wrote about the craziness in the Texas GOP education platform. Well, Stephen Colbert has noticed it too. [Read more…]
Now that they are back from a two-week hiatus, you could be sure that they would pick on the juiciest of political topics, the one with the most comedic potential, that took place during their absence and they did not disappoint. [Read more…]
… it would make politics much more interesting.
The 1998 comedy Bulworth stars Warren Beatty and Halle Berry, with the former as a politician having some sort of breakdown that rids him of all his inhibitions and allows him to speak his mind. [Read more…]
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had their fun with the hyperventilating reactions to the health care verdict. [Read more…]
The fact that CNN and Fox News initially reported the wrong verdict was, in my opinion, a trivial matter that merely told us something about the absurd premium placed on being first with news by even a few minutes, as if news was some kind of Olympics event where only the first place finisher got the coveted gold medal. [Read more…]
The political cartoonist has the knack of telling uncomfortable truths by putting things in stark contrast.
On Monday, the US Supreme Court struck down most of the provisions of the Arizona law SB 1070. As NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports, the sections that were struck down were “provisions that made it a state crime for illegal immigrants to seek or engage in work or to fail to carry documents proving they are in the country legally. Also struck down was the provision that authorized state and local law enforcement officers to arrest anyone based solely on the suspicion that the individual is in the country illegally.” [Read more…]
As envisaged by The Family Guy