How stupid/bigoted/ignorant (circle all that apply) people like Wanda Brown ever get elected to office is beyond me.
(This clip appeared on May 3, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
A new game show Break That Medium! that would be terrific if the people who purport to communicate with dead people really could. (via Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy)
From the 1999 film Dogma. (Thanks to Norm)
There is something richly ironic about casting the late George Carlin, an atheist whose tirades against religion in his comedy routine were legendary, as a Catholic bishop.
Here’s one such performance with some brilliant theological insights. (Language advisory)
Or so this photo seems to suggest.
No one on The Daily Show is as convincing in caricaturing clueless sexism as Jason Jones.
(This clip appeared on April 17, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
It seems like we are moving into an era where basic rights and freedoms are valued not as abstract principles but situationally, depending on the conditions under which the rights are threatened. Equal treatment under the law has always been an imperfectly applied ideal and in the past was violated with impunity but at least in the post-civil rights era, such selectivity was much more discreet. We are entering an era in which there is no longer even any pretense that the laws will be equally applied. [Read more…]
A couple of days ago, The Daily Show had a bit on the ‘war on women’ topic and in the process outraged Bill Donahue of The Catholic League, not that hard to do because he seems to be in a state of eternal apoplexy. In fact, going on TV and screaming that his finely tuned Catholic feelings are hurt seems to be his full-time occupation. [Read more…]
Men can be reassured that it looks like the Y-chromosome is not going extinct after all.
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(This clip appeared on March 26, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
The Vicar of Dibley was a popular British TV show which had a running gag in which each episode would end with vicar telling her somewhat dim and humor-impaired assistant a joke which the latter would totally fail to get.
Here are five of those endings.