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Evan Sayet’s “Right To Laugh” — Tuesday, August 19th Posted by Dirty Harry on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Evan Sayet is not only a terrific comedian, his brilliant deconstruction of liberalism, which you can watch above, is the only time I’ve ever watched anything on my computer that was longer than four minutes.

Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor childhood to stardom as a standup comedian, in films including the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and his acclaimed sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show." Mac died Saturday morning of complications from pneumonia. "The world just got a little less funny," said "Oceans" co-star George Clooney.

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Comedian Bernie Mac died at Northwestern Memorial hospital early Saturday morning, according to Sun-Times Columnist, Stella Foster. He was 50. Though the cause of death has not been confirmed, Mac had been hospitalized recently for pneumonia. Foster said that she received calls early Saturday morning from a close friend of the Mac family, confirming the reports of Mac's death. On Friday, a spokeswoman for the actor, whose real name is, Bernard McCullough, said that he had been responding well to treatment for the illness. Mac made waves last month with off-color jokes during a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack...

JULY 16--Comedian Andy Dick was arrested this morning by California cops on drug and sexual battery charges. Dick, 42, was nabbed around 2 AM in a Riverside County parking lot after he allegedly groped the breasts of a 17-year-old girl and then pulled the teen's tank top and bra down, exposing her breasts (the incident occurred outside the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant). During a search of Dick, police discovered a small amount of marijuana in his pants pocket and a single Xanax pill for which he did not have a prescription. An "extremely intoxicated" Dick was booked into the Southwest...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Jeni, a regular on NBC's "The Tonight Show," has died in an apparent suicide, police said on Sunday. Los Angeles police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman said a woman called police on Saturday morning from the West Hollywood area and said: "My boyfriend just shot himself in the face."

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen killed a veteran Iraqi actor and comedian known for his stage portrayal of the lighter side of life in Baghdad during Ottoman rule in the early 1900s, police said Wednesday. Mitashar al-Sudani, 60, was killed as he drove to theater offices on Haifa Street in Baghdad on Tuesday, a police officer and an official at Iraq's Theater and Cinema Ministry said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. Al-Sudani was shot multiple times, suggesting that the gunmen had singled him out. Armed groups have often killed prominent figures in politics, sports, the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen shot and killed a television comedian Monday who was famous for mocking everyone from the Iraqi government to U.S. forces to Shiite militias to Sunni insurgents. Walid Hassan's slaying came as the Iraqi death toll rose to more than 1,300 for the first 20 days of November — the highest for any month since The Associated Press began tracking the figure in April 2005. In all, 22 Iraqis were killed Monday in a series of attacks in Baghdad, Ramadi and Baqouba, police said. The bodies of 26 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured also were...

Josh Blue isn't going to let his cerebral palsy get in the way of his chance at becoming the "Last Comic Standing." The 27-year-old, who was born in the African country of Cameroon and raised in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood, scored a spot on the fourth season of the NBC reality show and is already a fan favorite thanks to lines like, "You guys better laugh because this is my make-a-wish" and "You're all going to hell for laughing at me." On a recent episode of "Last Comic Standing," he won the audience choice award. "Not to sound cocky, but...

Comedian Jerry Lewis postponed a July engagement to perform live after suffering a heart attack Sunday that a casino spokeswoman described as "mild." "At present, he is under hospital care and is expected to make a full recovery," said Candi Cazau, spokeswoman for the Orleans hotel-casino in Las Vegas, where Lewis was to perform July 13-16. Lewis, 80, is also suffering from "a touch of pneumonia," Cazau said in a statement. A call to Lewis' manager, Claudia Marghilano, was not returned Tuesday. Last week, a wise-cracking Lewis appeared healthy at a news conference in Las Vegas when he announced his...

John Lennon once wrote that "All you need is love." If that's the case, former presidential candidate Al Gore is a happy man. He is in the middle of a media lovefest celebrating his work, his career - even his efforts as actor, author, dancer and comedian. The former vice president has both a movie and a book about global warming debuting under the title "An Inconvenient Truth." He has gone from media darling to "the summer's most unlikely movie star," as NBC's Katie Couric called him in a May 24 interview. Gore, who Couric also called "funny, vulnerable, disarming,...

I just got an email from someone saying that Will Ferrell died in a paragliding accident. It sounds like something Will would have made up. The above link is not working for me but it was the only Google News link that says he is dead.

WASHINGTON -- A congressman says comedian Bill Maher's comment that the U.S. military has already recruited all the "low-lying fruit" is possibly treasonous and at least grounds to cancel the show. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., takes issue with remarks on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, first aired May 13, in which Maher points out the Army missed its recruiting goal by 42 percent in April. "More people joined the Michael Jackson fan club," Maher said. "We've done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit, and now we need warm bodies." Army Reserve Pfc. England was accused of abusing prisoners...

In Afghanistan, comedians joke their way to civic renewal In a country that had been stung by violent regimes, humor has long been a trusted coping mechanism. By Lane Hartill, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - Mubariz Bidar would give Robin Williams a run for his money. He's an Afghan comic who has this city - once ruled by severe Taliban - howling at their former oppressors. His spot-on impressions of everyone from a Taliban soldier to an Afghan drug addict would have even Mullah Omar giggling into his turban. At a recent impromptu performance, Mubariz wraps...

He's not wrapped too tightly, but Larry the Cable Guy knows comedy Larry the Cable Guy doesn't care who you are, he's going to make you laugh. Proud-to-be-a-redneck funny man Larry is bringing his latest joke-telling tour to Wachovia Arena Thursday, Jan. 27 for a night of political incorrectness. He checked in with the Weekender recently, just a few days after the tour kicked off in Houston. Tracing back to his livestock-raising roots in southern Nebraska, Larry and his cohorts had just stopped off at a cattle auction. He admitted spending a good part of the day explaining to the...

Comedian Soupy Sales, who once said a pie in the eye was worth two in the sky, saw his proclivity for pie-tossing pay off with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. “I appreciate this from the bottom of my heart and I appreciate you all coming here in the rain,” Sales, who was seated in a wheelchair, said Friday. The rain forced the ceremony to be held inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with Hollywood's honorary mayor, Johnny Grant, setting up the 79-year-old comic's classic schtick. “Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. had pies thrown in their face by Soupy Sales...

1. CHEVY CHASE Have you heard the one about the garbage-mouthed left-wing comedian who hosted a fancy mid-December awards ceremony in Washington and managed to gross out even the Hollywood liberal socialites in the audience with a string of hysterical anti-Bush obscenities? The distinguished speaker was Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase, the distinguished venue was the toney Kennedy Center on the banks of the Potomac, and the distinguished audience consisted largely of well-dressed members and supporters of "People for the American Way" -- a grotesquely misnamed leftist advocacy group that had engaged the 61-year-old washed-up comic to host its annual fundraiser...

I just got in the door from seeing comedian Ralphie May at the Orlando Improv. He did 3 huge shows tonight. Folks...this guy is without question a new breed of talent and comedy. He was if you don't remember the really really fat kid on the NBC show Last Comic Standing...and has been on a bunch of specials and the Tonight Show. He does about 2 hrs each show and he has all new material. He just got back from Iraq a few weeks ago performing for the troops with his fiancee Lahna Turner who opened his show...she is a...

Andy Kaufman Returns After 20 Years Wed May 19, 9:00 AM ET New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 19, 2004 -- Twenty years ago, on May 16, 1984, most of the world believed that we had lost a comedic legend forever. This has turned out to be what will inevitably be known as the greatest comic prank ever conceived. Andy Kaufman, by all accounts, is alive and well at age 55 and is now living in New York City on the upper west side. To his loyal supporters and fans, Andy says "sorry about faking my death," in a...

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A Paris theater had canceled a show by the comedian known as Dieudonne over a skit in which he had given a Nazi salute and said `Israel heil' Hundreds of demonstrators protested outside the Paris Olympia concert venue Friday in support of a French comedian whose show was canceled after he performed a "Nazi Jew" skit on national television. The Olympia announced Wednesday it was giving refunds for the 1,500 tickets sold for the comic Dieudonne's show, which was to have taken place Friday, because of an apparently organized campaign of telephone calls and faxes opposing the performance. Some were...

I heard that Norm McDonald is becoming a citizen due to Canada not supporting the USA in the Iraq war. He also purportedly said that Ronald Reagan was the best president of the USA. Anyone watch this or hear this too? I'm posting this 2nd hand as I've read it elsewhere online. He espoused these views on The View today.

<p>Listening to pundits on the left, it's hard to know who is more evil--George W. Bush or Rupert Murdoch. The president, some passionately believe, tricked us into war, which is of course bad. But Mr. Murdoch gave us the Fox News Channel. You decide.</p>

 SHORENSTEIN CENTERFELLOWSHIP PROGRAMWHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP?             The Joan Shorenstein Fellowship on the Press, Politics and Public Policy is a one-semester research fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Fellows are domestic or international journalists, scholars, and/or policymakers who are interested in the influence of the press on public policy and politics.            The fellowship offers a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise in a collegial and intellectually stimulating environment. Fellows participate in weekly seminars with scholars, a luncheon speakers series with invited journalists or policymakers, and in other organized programs of the...

Gallagher's top ten campaign slogans 1. Finally a Governor you can get drunk with. 2. Gallagher, the other white meat. 3. Why settle for amateurs? California deserves a Professional comedian. 4. Hate politicians? Elect Gallagher. Screw em up. Screw em back. 5. I couldn't do worse and I'm only half as crooked. 6. No wonder tourism is down, if Gray Davis pitched a party would you go? California, the party state with the boring host. 7. Together we can screw the state. 8. California is a six pack. Lets finish it off. 9. Incompetence... Corruption... Selfishness... Continue the California tradition....

Bob Hope: 1903-200307/28/2003By PHILIP WUNTCH / The Dallas Morning News Bob Hope, the vaudeville jokester turned pop-culture giant whose ski-slope profile cast a wry shadow over the 20th century and into the 21st, died late Sunday night, just two months after his 100th birthday. He died late Sunday of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, with his family at his bedside, longtime publicist Ward Grant told the Associated Press on Monday. From vaudeville venues to wartime USO stages, from big-screen Road tales opposite Bing Crosby to small-screen holiday specials opposite Brooke Shields, he kept America chuckling for nearly...

MIDI - I ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOU When I'm in need of news I run to my TV There really is just one guy that I want to see The man is a pro and is so prepared He tells his nation that there is no need to be scared For autographs he's mobbed…you've got to love that Baghdad Bob He says the war is going just as they had planned The USA will find that it is undermanned The man is a pro and is so prepared He tells his nation that there is no need to...

President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac may not be phone pals anymore, but that didn't stop Chirac from discussing Saddam Hussein, the war in Iraq, and other serious issues with another famous American: Jerry Lewis. Except it turns out that the man who had a five-minute phone conversation with Chirac last week wasn't Lewis, but rather a Los Angeles DJ impersonating the comedian. A source at KROQ 106.7 confirms that ''Kevin and Bean Show'' entertainment reporter Ralph Garman got through to Chirac by claiming to be France's most loved American funnyman -- a prank that has the real Lewis...

<p>BERLIN - The slight young woman wearing a black head scarf and loose gray pants and shirt bounded on stage. She scanned the audience, patted her scarf in place, and launched into her act.</p> <p>''Hello, my name is Shazia Mirza ... at least that's what it says on my pilot's license.'' Her delivery was deadpan, and for a second the audience seemed stunned.</p>

Just a heads up. If you missed the first run of Hardball tonight, catch it in the later hour (9:00 p.m. for Californians). Comedian Dennis Miller (once a democrat, but no more) hits some hard ones at the lefties. Funny stuff. Catch it if you can! Debate on Iraq, UN resolution and using nukes follows Miller's segement.

Comedian Allegedly Has Tantrum Over Rental Car Joan Rivers Could Lose Gun Permits POSTED: 11:15 a.m. EST December 28, 2002 Comedian Joan Rivers may lose her permit to carry guns because of a recent incident at a rental car counter, according to a recent report in the New York Post. Rivers, 69, allegedly threw a marker at a Dollar Rent-A-Car clerk after what the newspaper calls a "foul-mouthed tantrum." The report said that Rivers' driver had to wait in line at the rental car business, although the location was not revealed. Griselda Santana, 38, allegedly was the recipient of Rivers'...

BREAKING NEWS Milton Berle, vaudeville comedian and television pioneer, dead. Details soon. Reported on CNN