[These jokes are all about the ongoing feud between David Letterman and Sarah Palin.] “Thank you very much. Welcome to the ‘Late Show’, ladies and gentlemen. Now, when I call your name, please come forward and pick up your apology.” – David Letterman “Hi, everyone. I’m Jimmy, I’m the host of the show. Before we […]
Imagine that you are diagnosed with lymphoma (a form of cancer) and need expensive treatments. Good thing you have been paying your health insurance premiums for all those years, right? But then, your health insurance company assigns someone to go over your health records in detail, looking for a reason to cancel your coverage. And […]
© Steve Benson See Obama swat a real fly:
“It’s been reported Marvel Comics is getting set to bring back Captain America. They’re going to do this as soon as they get a loan from Captain China.” – Conan O’Brien “Tough times all over. Amusement park company Six Flags is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Experts say it’s due in large part to […]
John Hodgman at the Radio and Television Correspondent’s Dinner, with Barack Obama. Part 1: Part 2: Here’s Obama’s joke-filled speech. UPDATE: The untravel blog has a good posting about Hodgman’s speech. Here’s some of it: on one level, it’s just a bunch of silly, obscure jokes. On another level, the jokes mock their own obscurity. […]
Wing-nut lawmaker Michele Bachmann has come out against the census, saying that she “won’t be answering any information beyond” how many people live in her home. She claims that ACORN will be part of the Census Bureau’s efforts “They will be in charge of going door to door and collecting data from the American public. […]
“Television, tonight, has finally gone completely digital in the United States of America … Analog TV signals are no longer being beamed through the air, and yet monologue jokes will still be flying over Sarah Palin’s head.” – Bill Maher “Tonight’s the night of the big television digital switchover. According to some estimates, when the […]
Conservative ire is still being thrown at David Letterman for an off-color joke he made earlier this month about Sarah Palin and her daughter. Watch the video here. Without defending Letterman, who has apologized for the joke, Media Matters points out that protesting sexist jokes from a comedian is hypocritical when right-wing spokespeople and pundits […]
“A top Republican is angry that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor belongs to an elite private group. The top Republican’s angry, and so is everyone at his country club.” – Conan O’Brien “Karl Rove called Maureen Dowd of The New York Times a ‘bitter, twisted, deranged columnist’ and a ‘dour, downbeat liberal’ and – more […]
The recent murder of a doctor who performed abortions, after right-wing pundits such as Bill O’Reilly called him a “baby killer” on the air, and said that people who didn’t do anything to stop him had “blood on their hands”, has started a conversation about the ethics of the news profession. First, I have to […]
© Keith Knight This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media.
