• Poundstone lends humor, support to Westport fight against homelessness When stand-up comedienne Paula Poundstone hits the stage of Westport's Levitt Pavilion next week, she will offer a dose of dry wit, political observations, family-based humor and audience interaction.
• Bloggers Deride Dentist-Funded Hillary 2012 Campaign Ad A 2012 presidential campaign ad is out--and it's for Hillary Clinton, funded by a dentist from Chicago. Though, as The Washington Post's Emi Kolawole points out, "this could make for awkward chatter at the White House," the blogosphere seems to be dismissing the ad breezily. A Clinton candidacy is barely even a remote possibility, say political observers. The combination of the ad's ...
• Movie review: 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop' makes for quirky treat Zhang Yimou uses Chinese operatic humor to great effect in re-imagining the Coen brothers' 'Blood Simple.' Zhang Yimou uses Chinese operatic humor to great effect in re-imagining the Coen brothers' 'Blood Simple.'
• 'Machete': The Reviews Are In! Most critics give high marks to Robert Rodriguez's mix of exaggerated violence and political satire.
• A Life In Dark Humor Bite, wit & mayhem make Bill Plympton a funny guy Almost from the time he started drawing, Bill Plympton has been making light of mankind's heaviest, darkest moments. Like Jules Feiffer and Edward Gorey before him, this Oscar-nominated artist is drawn to angst, murder, mayhem and satire.
• Rodriguez's 'Machete' tears it up as grindhouse fare By all rights, even gore hounds should be perturbed by the sheer level of gut-churning mayhem, sexual depravity, tasteless slapstick humor - and gallons of blood - hurled at the screen in Robert Rodriguez's post-cheez-ee retro grindhouse spectacle, Machete.
• Artist draws inspiration from Bosnia's turmoil Ethnic tension and the haunting memory of war vex Bosnia 15 years after Europe's worst fighting since World War Two, but artist Mladen Miljanovic draws inspiration from such turmoil.
• Political Memoirs: Peter Mandelson Peter Mandelson released 'The Third Man' after Labour lost the 2010 general election, at the time of writing it has been in the Amazon top 100 for 55 days.
• 'Hot Tub Time Machine': A blast of laughs from the past John Cusack and his buds travel back to 1986 to find politically incorrect jokes and nonstop humor. Who doesn't have fun in a hot tub? Or hasn't tested, at least once, the more-bodies-more-fun principle?
• What Evangelicals Really Think of Glenn Beck Glenn Beck's revival may appear to forecast him as less of a leader for America's evangelical base than one might think.

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• Poll: One out of Five Americans Do Not Believe Obama Exists WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In what might be the most serious challenge to Barack Obama’s legitimacy as President, a new poll shows that one out of five Americans are not convinced that Mr. Obama exists. The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, reveals that 23 percent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” [...]
• All U.S. Workplaces to be Fitted with Inflatable Slides WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – Effective immediately, all workplaces in the United States will be fitted with inflatable slides to enable disgruntled employees to quit as dramatically as possible. According to a new study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor, workers are less likely to suffer from stress and “go off” at the workplace if [...]
• In Month Before Labor Day, Pointless ?Filler? Columns Abound NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In a phenomenon that occurs every year in the month before Labor Day, national columnists across America file pointless, content-free “filler” columns, enabling the lazy scribes to hit the beach earlier, according to observers who have been following this trend. The “filler” columns are churned out in a matter of [...]
• BP Replaces Tony Hayward with Startled Deer LONDON (The Borowitz Report) – Carrying through on its pledge to install fresh leadership at the top of the company, BP today replaced embattled CEO Tony Hayward with a startled deer. Bucky, the red deer selected to take the helm at BP, is believed to be the first woodland creature ever to run a multinational corporation. In [...]
• Right Wing Attacks Borowitz; Please Refudiate Dear Friends, I must be doing something right. My latest PBS segment on Sarah Palin’s inventive language, Palinese, has inspired an avalanche of right-wing comments, orchestrated by a right-wing website.  They accuse me of everything but being born in Kenya. Please go to the link below and if you feel so inclined, fight the haters with your own [...]

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