When I resigned from the board, right after my bonus was approved, there were hugs all around and cries of "We're leaving too!"
By Garrison Keillor Mar 18, 2009
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Senior women's correspondent Kristen Schaal on Islamic garb, the torture of high heels and the joys of mayonnaise
By Sarah Hepola
July 2, 2009
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The lolcats, the Internet's most famous felines, may be hilarious. But in their yearning, I see nothing less than the tragedy of the human condition.
By Jay Dixit
November 15, 2008
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For the past eight years, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey and other comedians have had us laughing through our tears. If Obama wins, will the laughter die?
By Thomas Schaller
November 4, 2008
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Is David Alan Grier's flava-ful new sketch comedy show a black version of "The Daily Show"?
By James Hannaham
October 15, 2008
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A satiric clip pokes fun at women who think motherhood turns them into Mother Earth.
By Sarah Hepola
April 27, 2009
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Our YouTube satire of the day likens those "real" Americans' undying love of country to the behavior of an abusive boyfriend. In a funny way!
By Sarah Hepola
November 4, 2008
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The Onion offers a bizarre and hilarious spoof on the potential first lady: "She loves her kids with both her hearts."
By Sarah Hepola
October 27, 2008
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Broadsheet writers discuss "SNL" comedian Maya Rudolph's return to the show as Michelle Obama.
By Sarah Hepola
October 26, 2008
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Tastes bad! Less filling! Brad Pitt's quasi-closeted gym boy and George Clooney's beard star in the Coen brothers' bizarre, coldblooded spy farce, "Burn After Reading."
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 12, 2008
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Attention, reality-TV programmers: "I'm From Sky Mall" and "Hangover CSI" -- you're gonna love them!
By Sarah Hepola
September 5, 2008
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Filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass and their cast talk about "Baghead," their delightful and totally unclassifiable indie-satire-horror breakout.
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 25, 2008
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The blogosphere's reaction to the New Yorker cover proves that the Bush era has killed a lot of liberals' sense of humor. And that's not funny.
By Gary Kamiya
July 15, 2008
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The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
July 5, 2008
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Sarah Haskins' hilarious new video satire takes on the wicked world of Botox.
By Kate Harding
June 30, 2008
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From Darth Vader to Pete Doherty, Salon presents a lighthearted list of the 10 worst fathers ever and the presents they deserve.
By Steve Almond
June 14, 2008
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How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 12, 2008
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How did Stephen Colbert become a progressive political force? Theodore Hamm discusses "The New Blue Media," the rise of netroots and their role in the next administration.
By Charly Wilder
May 30, 2008
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He might be the star of "OSS 117," a deadpan, borderline-brilliant satire of postwar spy movies and preening Euro-idiocy in the Middle East.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 9, 2008
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Think of Britain's John Bird and John Fortune as an older, posher Stewart and Colbert. And then start laughing.
By Andrew Leonard
November 30, 2007
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At the home for retired advertising icons, not everyone's happy to see the Geico Cavemen hit the big time.
By King Kaufman
September 13, 2007
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Baptists for Brownback get their Swift on.
By Lynn Harris
July 25, 2007
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From the author of "White Teeth" and "The Autograph Man" comes an extraordinary academic comic novel in the tradition of "Howards End" that bursts with imagination.
By Laura Miller
October 1, 2005
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Crazed right-wing moralists, take note: Before SpongeBob, there was Snagglepuss ... and Huckleberry Hound ... and even Popeye.
By Liz Larocca
February 5, 2005
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Nader (NAY-dur) n. Low point, as of a celestial body that has declined from an exalted height.
By Evan Eisenberg
October 12, 2004