http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/comedy/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:32:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284286/posts In early May, National Public Radio, a supposed bastion of liberal media bias, found itself in the cross hairs of the lesbian and gay community over an online review of "Outrage," a documentary chronicling the hypocrisy of prominent, purportedly closeted politicians with staunchly anti-gay voting records. What sparked the controversy was not the documentary itself, but the fact that NPR's review failed to name names. In fact, while Nathan Lee, the review's initial author, had included the identities of those fingered in the film, NPR editors took it upon themselves to censor the review prior to publication. Would a review... http://www.nydailynews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284286/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:32:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279823/posts See video here. The Hope for America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279823/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:55:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278631/posts JERUSALEM — "Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander told a crowd in Jerusalem Wednesday that the search for an Israeli-Palestinian solution and the "show about nothing" that launched him to fame have one thing in common — neither seemed destined to succeed. But just as the show managed to bounce back with comedy, Alexander said, a solution might be found for Mideast troubles if people write and laugh with one another. "We were canceled, we were gone, we were a distant memory and somehow we came back and eventually everybody caught on and started paying attention," he said. "Other than that, we... Tha Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278631/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:40:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277824/posts Offense must play 50% of the time and Defense must play 50% of the time. Anything over those percentages is considered overtime and will not be allowed. However, ACLU attorneys will be provided free of charge to settle any grievances over work hours. THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277824/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:24:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275740/posts At the Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner TOTUS gave a stumbling monologue that was supposed to be funny. One time it was funny was when he made some pointed jabs at st hillary. Everyone knows that Obama has effectively cordoned off Hillary from any substantive duties at the State Dept. by assigning various "special envoys" to key areas, like Amb. Holbrooke (Afghanistan/Pakistan) cited below. But, it seems to me TOTUS made a special point of noting how Hillary stumbled on her way to the WH, but "fortunately...Hillary's ready to settle." This seems to be a thinly veiled jab at Hillary's... Obama at Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275740/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:59:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273300/posts The feud between late-night talk show host David Letterman and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is no laughing matter. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telelphone survey finds that nearly two-thirds of American adults (64%) say it’s inappropriate for comedians like Letterman to joke about the children of public figures. Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273300/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:46:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271233/posts Has President Barack Obama inadvertently killed off presidential satire? Is this American art form, once practiced expertly by late night television comedians, now dead? All signs point to "yes." It's not that he did it on purpose. Obama has a fine sense of humor and can take a joke and tell jokes on himself. And he's got a magnetic smile. But according to one theory, he came home exhausted after a long day in the Oval Office, tired from transcending the politics of our past, and from appointing another couple of dozen czars to run things. So he sat down... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271233/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:24:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270218/posts See the video. The Hope for America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270218/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269782/posts Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" reversed its ratings decline and showed growth for the 1st time Wednesday night. Also, new ratings for O'Brien's 1st wk behind the "Tonight" desk gives NBC a record-setting lead over CBS' "Late Show" among adults 18-49. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269782/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:17:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269307/posts "Last Show" host David Letterman responded to letters from Sarah and Todd Palin concerning dirty jokes he made about the Governor and her 14-year-old daughter. Letterman took the whole thing as a joke and made the Palins out to be buffoons. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269307/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:10:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269234/posts A sneak preview of tonight’s monologue from EW. He wasn’t joking about her 14-year-old daughter being a prostitute, silly. He was joking about her 18-year-old daughter being a prostitute. Perfectly legal. Whew! Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269234/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:33:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265713/posts Glenn Beck is doing the job documented comedians refuse to do: making people laugh about liberalism. Beck, the radio titan and Fox News commentator, kicked off his six-city “Common Sense” comedy tour June 1 at Denver’s Ellie Caulkins Opera House. It’s an odd venue for the populist broadcaster — a man who talks up tater tots one minute, then belittles opera the next — but fitting for someone with his power base. Beck is the first one to laugh at his third chin and Bowflex-free physique, but the broadcaster is as polarizing as he is potent in today’s media world.... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265713/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:06:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263162/posts General Motors is demoted to Private First Class Motors, and a great graphic showing how the nominee fits in with the other great judges of our time! Uncle Jay explains it all! Uncle Jay Explains the News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263162/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262950/posts The wife and I saw Glenn Beck live last night. It was the first show of his summer comedy tour, and it sold out in less than a week. The guy is awesome live. It's the same Glenn from radio and TV, just at a zanier pace (if you thought that were possible) and without the Viagra and gold commercials. The expansive stage allows him freedom that the camera does not. He went out on a limb, selecting three people from the audience to illustrate the Freedom -vs- Tyranny continuum. The sweet spot was a cute young blond gal. Coincidence?... Nietzsche is Dead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262950/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:33:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262065/posts When Newsweek called the Republican Party "newly energized" earlier this week, it was spot-on. The GOP's wounded-victim status has morphed into a motivated anger — a sense driven by omnipresent media personalities like Glenn Beck. The DJ turned talk-show host joins ideological kin Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly in hammering away at what they see as the wastefulness and idiocy of the Obama administration, and millions are listening. But critics of Beck have a harder time pinning him down than the others. His mixture of history, humor, apocalyptic warnings and breezy dismissals paints a more complex character. And since jumping... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262065/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:40:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2260106/posts I recently took my kids to the movies to see "Night at the Museum 2", which wasn't too bad a movie by the way. One of the previews was for Glen Becks Common Sense Comedy Tour. My theater here will have a simulcast of his show. The dates are June 4th with an encore show June 11th. Click the link to see more details. You can enter your zip code to see if a theater near you will be showing it. www.glenbeck.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2260106/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 21:13:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259050/posts Lonewolf Diaries: All Christians are Serial KillersPosted By Steven Crowder On May 26, 2009 @ 5:46 pm In Entertainment, Lone Wolf Diaries, Political Humor, Religion | No Comments I’m tired of ignoring the elephant in the room, so I’ll just come out and say it. Christians are corny, out of touch, lonely creepers who generally end up becoming murderers or rapists…. At least that’s what Hollywood’s taught me.Not to mention they’re all a bunch of minority-bashing fear mongers. Why does anyone continue to allow this hateful, extremist group to exist? Am I the only one who feels that they could... BigHollywood.breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259050/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:56:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255122/posts The sniping starts at around 1:54. Michelle Obama that is a big dude. When Barack plays pick up games at the White House, you know he picks Michelle as his forward, maybe his (center) depending on who’s in Congress that day. “That has to be like being married to Elton Brand. She is a big dude. That's NBA forward Elton Brand. Supermodel Iman, by the way, said of Michelle Obama, she's "no great beauty. From gossip site The Frisky, which finds all of this horrible and grossly disrespectful and all that. The problem is this: When the MSM and tabloids... AceOfSpades http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255122/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 00:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2254747/posts In the end, what mars the Arab-American Comedy Festival is…a splendid, merciless anatomy of the Arab-American experience, so unsparingly self-critical that it goes beyond the politically incorrect to a species of comedy that often shucks off all conventions and nears pure anarchy. Mr. Obeidallah… talked about performing around the Middle East -- in Kuwait, he was told "sir, you may not talk about sex, drugs, religion, and no bad language." He illustrated his reaction with a frozen grimace. "What the f- was I supposed to talk about?" "Any Palestinian-Mormons in the audience?" he asked, sighing knowingly at the ensuing silence.... WSJ On-line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2254747/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 16:14:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254138/posts Dennis Miller: Capitalist Hero Posted By Matt Patterson On May 19, 2009 @ 11:11 am In Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics, Reviews | No Comments [1] [2] Dennis Miller started out on the political left and, as he matured (helped along considerably by the shock of 9/11), he migrated to the political right.In this wayward sojourn, he is in fine intellectual company: To name but a few, David Horowitz (former campus radical), Irving Kristol (one time Trotskyite), and Ronald Reagan (early FDR-New Dealer).  And as is usually the case with someone who has viewed the world through both left and... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254138/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 20:10:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249537/posts Buried at the end of Chris Rovzar and Jada Yuan's fantastic White House Correspondents' Association Dinner party report is an incendiary quote from Christopher Hitchens about the evening's entertainment, comedienne Wanda Sykes: "The president should be squirming in his seat. Not smiling," he said. "The black dyke got it wrong. No one told her the rules." Rovzar and Yuan note that Hitchens was the "last man (barely) standing" of the evening. Other highlights of the always amusing NYMag writers' report include Jada Pinkett's face to face interaction with Tom Cruise, a shoe-less Meghan McCain, an allergy-stricken Elizabeth Banks, and several... The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249537/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 21:18:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248994/posts Isn’t it this guy’s job to convey Obama’s thinking to the media? Then how to explain this answer when we have video proof of The One merrily yukking it up during Sykes’s offending bit? Good lord, even Keith Olbermann thought it was “probably” in bad taste, which, coming from him about a fellow lefty, is tantamount to nuclear-hot outrage. Ben Shapiro said all that needs to be said about the fundamental cowardice of dumping on Republicans at Obama’s big debutante ball: Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248994/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 02:38:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248530/posts IS Stephen Colbert faking it? It seems that way to liberals who watch his late-night show, "The Colbert Report," according to a new study. Seems that left-leaning viewers believe "Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said" on his show, says an Ohio State University study entitled "The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want" just published in The International Journal of Press/Politics. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248530/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 15:22:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248069/posts NewsBuster Tim Graham asked Saturday if comedienne Wanda Sykes, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, would really make fun of President Barack Obama or go all gentle. Well, the answer is likely worse than any of us could have imagined, for Sykes used this platform to attack conservatives rather than the person who is historically roasted at this event. In fact, her only real knocks on Obama were that he's constantly being photographed with his shirt off, and that if he screws up, everybody will blame it on "the half white guy!" After some respectful and largely... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248069/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 17:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248080/posts Vermin-In-Chief Obama: "Dick Cheney was supposed to be here..." C-SPAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248080/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 17:44:06 GMT