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  • "The Daily Show" on the burqa ban

    Senior women's correspondent Kristen Schaal on Islamic garb, the torture of high heels and the joys of mayonnaise
  • Are pregnant women smug?

    A satiric clip pokes fun at women who think motherhood turns them into Mother Earth.
  • At AIG, we're all about people

    When I resigned from the board, right after my bonus was approved, there were hugs all around and cries of "We're leaving too!"
  • I can has cheezburger ... and pathos?

    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.
  • Who's your Founding Father, bitch?

    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!
  • The end of the satirical industrial complex?

    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?
  • Cindy McCain: "Just like any other female human"

    The Onion offers a bizarre and hilarious spoof on the potential first lady: "She loves her kids with both her hearts."
  • Saturday night limp?

    Broadsheet writers discuss "SNL" comedian Maya Rudolph's return to the show as Michelle Obama.
  • Semisweet "Chocolate News"

    Is David Alan Grier's flava-ful new sketch comedy show a black version of "The Daily Show"?
  • No country for human beings

    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."
  • Reality shows we'd like to see

    Attention, reality-TV programmers: "I'm From Sky Mall" and "Hangover CSI" -- you're gonna love them!
  • Four clueless actors, a dream and a paper bag

    Filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass and their cast talk about "Baghead," their delightful and totally unclassifiable indie-satire-horror breakout.
  • Rush Limbaugh was right

    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.
  • The unbearable whiteness of being

    The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris.
  • The true price of beauty is needles in your face

    Sarah Haskins' hilarious new video satire takes on the wicked world of Botox.
  • Bad Dad Gift Guide

    From Darth Vader to Pete Doherty, Salon presents a lighthearted list of the 10 worst fathers ever and the presents they deserve.
  • The Little Tramp's killer comedy

    How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
  • Did humor save the left at its darkest hour?

    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.
  • If Austin Powers were French -- and funny

    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.
  • Once more unto the subprime satire breach

    Think of Britain's John Bird and John Fortune as an older, posher Stewart and Colbert. And then start laughing.
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