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NEW YORK (AP) -- Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" is off the air and it's a mystery why. An expected live version of the show was replaced by a repeat on Wednesday. Comedy Central said Thursday's live show will be off, too. The network said it was airing the repeats "due to unforeseen circumstances," but offered no other explanation.

This is just too dang funny. Nazis from the dark side of the moon, the world in chaos, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad writing.....sounds like a guilty pleasure on the same level as "Plan 9 from outer space" or "Mars Attacks!". Oh yeah, a poorly impersonated Palin (as president) with southern voice mannerisms?

Silly........Random........Stuff.........   And here is a new product from the Democrats...

esident Barack Obama spoke at Saturday night's Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington poking fun at himself and fellow leaders. The annual black-tie banquet is an exclusive gathering of many of Washington's business and political elite. "You've heard it from the pundits: 'Obama is cloistered in the White House.' 'He's aloof.' 'He's in the bubble.' He's not connecting,'" said Obama. "And that’s why one of my big goals this year was to get out and be among every day, ordinary Americans -- like the men and women of the Alfalfa Club." The president, who broke into song at a recent fundraiser...

[This is the entire article:] According to a movie and book that came out in 2010, everyone is Waiting For Superman. That would be the heroic, miraculous, too-good-to-be-true school that will swoop down into even the worst neighborhoods and rescue all those bad-luck kids. Me, I’m not counting on Superman. Public schools are too weird. The Man of Steel will look foolish fighting to the death against silly putty. To speak truth about this demented demimonde, we need a voice, a mind, a way of thinking as deranged as the system itself. We need Lewis Black. You know him, of...

Hours after Mitt Romney eked out a win in the Iowa caucuses over former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Gov. Deval Patrick called the victory for the former Bay State governor a win for the Tea Party. Appearing on the CBS Early Show on Wednesday, Patrick defended President Barack Obama and called the Republican cast of challengers “interchangeable.” “It’s a win last night for the Tea Party agenda. That was really the big winner. I mean the candidates in many respects are interchangeable because they’re all offering exactly the same plan, and that’s a plan that says that everybody in America...

Ex-Sen. Specter’s new career is comedyBy Joshua Altman - 12/28/11 12:11 PM ET Former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) found an open mic and performed Tuesday at a Philadelphia comedy club to tell “some of the inside stories” of Washington. Specter spun tales of former President Clinton and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D), and just the mention of former presidential candidate Herman Cain elicited some of the biggest laughs of the act. “I should have started with Herman Cain, he gets a helluva laugh just by being identified,” Specter said with a shrug. Comedy is not just a hobby Specter...

Reboots: The Fugitive, Batman Begins/Dark Knight, Casino Royale, Check. And now... (Read the comments too.)

NEW YORK (AP) — On "Saturday Night Live," even the devil was offended by the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. "SNL" cast member Jason Sudeikis reprised his role as Satan, appearing with red horns and pitchfork. The devil was informed by "Weekend Update" host Seth Meyers of sex charges against a former defensive coordinator and allegations that university officials failed to report the abuse. Even he was disturbed by the news. Addressing Penn State students who protested football coach Joe Paterno's firing, the devil spoke directly into the camera, asking, "Do you know how bad that made you look?"...

<p>“Obama insults Sarkozy,” blared headline on French websites, taking umbrage at Mr. Obama’s wayward remark at the G-20 summit about the physical appearance of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.</p> <p>Mr. Obama thought he was making a joke about Mr. Sarkozy, host of the summit, when he congratulated him and wife Carla on the birth of their daughter. Instead, Mr. Obama caused a minor international incident.</p>

"Groundbreaking." "Memorable." "Big." "Remarkable." "Intimate." [?] "Wonderful." "Great." "History-making." "Go Coco!" The above statements were made by various media outlets upon learning of Conan O'Brien's intention to preside over the wedding of a gay couple during the taping of his show "Conan" in New York this week. O'Brien, who is celebrating his first year at TBS, is back in New York this week (for 16 years his previous show, "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" was filmed in New York City). He announced last week that he was going to officiate a gay wedding because same-sex marriages are now legal in...

Not certain if Warner would dare release something like this nowadays in our PC world for fear of being dealt the race card. Indeed, since Allan Sherman was Jewish it would almost certainly be tagged as a Zionist plot.

Doug Hertle grew up wanting to do clean comedy. This is a great example of his style and humor. I think he has captured the Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus paradigm.

Comedian Katt Williams isn’t really sorry for an anti-Mexican rant he made during a performance, he said on CNN on Saturday morning. In fact, despite an apology attributed to him released by his publicist earlier this week, Williams said he “meant what I said and said what I meant." The controversial comments were caught in a video posted online. Williams, who was performing at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, asked a man in the crowd if he was a Mexican. "It appears to me y'all like it over here a lot," he said. "Do you remember when white people used...

When Glenn Beck heard the following rant by comedian Felonious Munk, he couldn’t believe it. You probably won’t either. Munk is known for recording wild, profanity-laced YouTube rants as part of a series he calls “Stop It B!” Sometimes it’s hard to tell what he really believes and what is part of his routine. But we’ll let you make up your mind regarding his latest rant — a stern message to Obama about the debt ceiling and America paying its bills. There’s now way to really sum it up, except for that it has a lot of GRAPHIC LANGUAGE and...

Unless they get so angry at us that they send terminators from the future to kill us.Wow, that whole debt-ceiling debate was scary. For a while there, it looked like a few radical extremists were going to keep the country from going further into debt. And then where would we be? Without all the free stuff we like, because some people are stuck on the primitive notion that a budget should balance? I think you can say without hyperbole that people who think like that are literally terrorists, except a million times worse. What makes people think the government should...

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Pee-wee Herman hopes to take his act back on the road for a new big-screen adventure. Paul Reubens told an audience at the Comic-Con fan convention Thursday that he's working with Hollywood comedy powerhouse Judd Apatow to produce a new movie. Reubens appeared in character as Pee-wee, with his bow-tie and gray suit. He played the oddball man-child on television and in two feature films, including Tim Burton's 1985 comedy "Pee-wee's Big Adventure." Reubens says Apatow felt strongly that the new film should return the character to his life on the road in the first movie

Created by Frank Peppiatt and John Ayleswoth, the first HEE HAW show aired on the CBS Television Network on June 15, 1969, as a summer replacement series for the SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR. HEE HAW was such a resounding success CBS slated the series for mid-season debut and as they say, the rest is history. From December 17, 1969 thorough December 27, 1997, HEE HAW shows were a weekly event in American households. A total of 585 one-hour shows were taped in Nashville, Tennessee, initially in 1969 at the CBS affiliate WLAC-TV (now WTVF-TV) and then moving to the Opryland...

Near the end of Dean Martin's variety show in 1973-74, the formula evolved into a series of celebrity roasts. The show was cancelled in '74, but NBC decided to go with the 'Dean Martin Celebrity Roast' for a series of TV specials from 1974-84. Martin and a panel of longtime celeb buds roasted: Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O'Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan...

Bin Laden was killed by the US Navy Seal on Sunday. While most part of the world is celebrating, NMA has made an animation to portray what had happened during the siege and what happens to him after his death. Donald Trump was kicked off the air on Sunday to make way for some important news from President Barack Obama. Obama announced that US Navy Seals had located 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden at a large residential compound in a Pakistan neighborhood. Pakistan claimed its intelligence agents were involved in the operation. Bin Laden reportedly resisted capture. US forces recovered...

To cleanse the palate, via the MacIver Institute and Breitbart, count it off yourself. The fateful question is posed at around 1:40; not until 1:53 does the deafening silence finally end. Good lord. I almost feel sorry for her. Almost. In a concession to the inevitability of the outcome, the Kloppenburg camp compromised late this afternoon and agreed with Prosser’s team to hold a hand recount in only 31 counties, where the voting machines are older and therefore theoretically more prone to error. It won’t matter, but they’re deep into face-saving mode here so let’s get on with it.

Tina Fey may have been the darling of the left for her Emmy-winning impersonations of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live.” But the comedic actress-director is now expressing regrets about her Palin pokes in her new book, “Bossypants.” As a matter of fact, Fey suspects that mimicking the former Alaska governor may have hurt the ratings of her NBC sitcom, “30 Rock.” “Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show,” Fey writes in an excerpt published in USA Today. “I am proud to say you are wrong. My TV show...

With R-rated romantic comedies featuring such wholesome themes as casual sex among acquaintances, marital infidelity, oral sex jokes, friends with benefits, and random hooking up, the Hollywood assault on America's traditional values is alive and well. 2011 is the unofficial year of the raunchy Hollywood movie in which loyalty, sexual self-control, and marital commitment are fodder for comedy and where the idea of f**k buddies reigns supreme. "Love and Other Drugs," "No Strings Attached," "Hall Pass," and "Friends with Benefits" are four Hollywood creations in late 2010 and early 2011 in which attractive 20-somethings were cast as glorified sluts and...

TCM at 9am Starring Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson A burlesque queen goes to college, charms a professor and livens up the class play. www.tcm.com

5. Tootsie 4. Young Frankenstein 3. Some Like It Hot 2. Monty Python and The Holy Grail 1. Airplane!

Roast of Donald Trump Donald Trump faces a gauntlet of celebrity insulters including Whitney Cummings, Lisa Lampanelli, Seth MacFarlane, Jeffrey Ross, Snoop Dogg, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Larry King, Marlee Matlin, Anthony Jeselnik and more.

"Sold my last house for $85,000... my landlord was real upset about that" Garry Shandling (11.29.1949) is an American comedian, actor and writer best known for his work in It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Larry Sanders Show. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Chicago, Shandling was then raised in Tuscon, AZ. Later as a young adult he moved-on to LA, starting out a creative career at an ad agency, writing scripts.  Garry soon broke into TV by successfully submitting an unsolicited script for a Sanford and Son episode (this became the one where Fred turns his junkyard into a Japanese restaurant lol). He came...

"This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills...I'm not about to screw with it now!" Bob Newhart (Oak Park, Illinois 9.25.1929) is an American comedian, author, and TV/film actor known for a deadpan style and trademark stammering and hesitant delivery. His hugely successful career spans over four decades, and the man is nothing less than an American comedy legend... Bob Newhart's career was launched by his 1960 comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart -which acutally went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains to this day the 20th best-selling LP of any kind... in history.  Not...

Teachers unions have been blocking efforts to improve the failing school system for years. Now, with government pensions bankrupting state governments, the unions have been resisting any attempt to salvage the economy. The situation in Wisconsin makes this video a timely one indeed. Teachers Unions explained. Here's a direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxc6kzH-uI

Climate change could rob Melbourne of its beloved comedy festival, one of Australia's best-known stand-up comedians says. Rod Quantock says the art of making people laugh is part of Melbourne's identity, but global warming could see off the fun. "Because of climate change, in 25 years, we won't have a comedy festival," Quantock said. "The money that we need for comedy festival will be needed for solving the problems of the next cyclone or the next bushfire or the next flood." Quantock was joined by 24 other comedians for the launch of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's 25th anniversary at...

2002’s Undercover Brother looked primed to make comic and consummate scene-stealer Eddie Griffin a bona fide movie star. The film was a commercial and critical success, but the expected sequels have not been forthcoming and Griffin has spent the ensuing years alternating between stand-up comedy and small but memorable roles in flashy fare like Norbit. Griffin is no stranger to bit parts: He made his film debut as “Gas Station Attendent” in manager/mentor Andrew “Dice” Clay’s concert film Dice Rules before playing characters like “Ventriloquist” in The Five Heartbeats, “Messenger” in Brain Donors and, of course, “Guest at Kid’s Bachelor...

"Most states don't end in the letter 'A'..." Surrealist comedian Emo Phillips (dob 2.08.56) is an entertainer and comedian originating from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, Illinois. The highly unique brand of self-deprecating stand up comedy that made him famous is often built upon the paraprosdokians and garden path sentences spoken in a wandering falsetto tone. It's been said that the wide-eyed, confused, and childlike delivery is employed to invoke the 'wisdom of children' or the idiot savant... Philips has recorded three comedy albums, including E=mo², which won the 1985 New Music Award for best comedy album. It was...

"Yeah, it's a small world... but I wouldn't want to paint it" Steven Wright -dob 12.06.55- is an American comedian, actor and writer. Widely known for a distinct lethargic voice and deadpan delivery in a droning monotone, the highly-original style of humor centers on ironic, philosophical, and even nonsensical jokes and one-liners with often bizarre, contrived situations. His early career as a Boston-area stand up comedian working primarily two clubs eventually landed him appearances on both the Carson and Letterman shows by 1982.  Wright's unique act went over huge in the new-wave 80s, and he was repeatedly asked back on. By 1985,...

This video contains the best counter-argument I've seen to the liberals' claim that "there has never been a ticking timebomb scenario in real life," something they always say when the subject of interrogation comes up. Seeing that argument torn down in a humorous fashion, along with other liberal fallacies about diplomacy, makes it well worth seeing. Watch the video

William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (dob 7.12.1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, philosopher, and musician. Cosby got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the situation comedy The Bill Cosby Show in 1969. He was one of the major characters on the children's television series The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city.  Bill Cosby has...

Ricky Gervais Was Only as Mean as We’d Hoped He'd Be It was such a refreshing treat watching Ricky Gervais go knives out during last year's Golden Globes, attacking the likes of Mel Gibson, Angelina Jolie and Sir Paul McCartney. Honestly, he didn’t say anything any worse then what is said by millions of viewers on their couches, but Ricky was in the room, looking right at his victims. It was a rush. So when it was announced that Gervais would be coming back for more, the conversation naturally turned to, “Can he top last year’s performance?” The press (guilty)...

"I warned them." Returning Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais did indeed let it be known that he wasn't going to hold back in skewering Hollywood's most famous celebrities. And, in what will undoubtedly be his last hosting gig for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (and, who knows, maybe any Stateside awards) he didn't disappoint. But in the process of making searingly funny jokes at more than just the obvious targets (Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, the HFPA itself), the heat he put into the punch lines might have made him more of the story than the actual winners. And yet, it...

While recently watching the Coen brothers' new movie, "True Grit," I thought of how the story of a 14-year-old girl functioning in a world of rough and ruthless men conforms to the longstanding American myth of the pioneer woman - a myth that is especially relevant today, in the wake of congressional legislation that would have perished without a woman's strong leadership. American women were central to pushing the country westward and managing frontier towns of men who would've been happy drinking, shooting and killing each other if the female desire for order and tranquility had not been imposed upon...

Phil Hendrie on KFI in Los Angeles at 7pm Pacific. This is the funniest and most creative host you will ever hear. He does multiple voices and his able to interrupt himself in mid sentence. PHIL HENDRIE ON KFI

Apparently some lies are good, and some are bad. The trick is to know which is which. Dogs and other “less than human” critters probably don’t lie. People are different. They can and do lie, frequently. It is said that George “Cherry Tree” Washington never told a lie. If so, he must have been a disagreeable chap with few friends. “Do you think I’m fat, George?” “Yes, dear.” Polite people generally don’t say that sort of thing, even if they have to lie (or fake a coughing fit) to avoid it. In recent years, the concept of polite lies has...

President Obama will make the fusion of politics and comedy official tonight by becoming the first sitting president to appear on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” just days before crucial midterm elections that could reshape his presidency. Mr. Obama will sit down this afternoon with Jon Stewart, the comedian-turned-activist who hosts the show, in what White House officials concede is a blatant attempt to seek out young Democratic voters wherever they spend the most time. “The President hasn’t been shy about going to the places where people are getting their information and trying to make his case,” White House press secretary...

Stand-up Ahmed Ahmed on taking stand-up to the Arab world Comedian Ahmed Ahmed is a man with a mission. As an American-Egyptian, he wanted to bring the Western idea of stand-up to the Middle East. Not the military bases or the corporate, expat gigs comics usually play, but genuine Arab people, often in regimes where such entertainment was strictly prohibited. Putting together a roster of like-minded acts, including Britain’s Omid Djalili, he toured the region, committing his efforts to film. The ensuing movie, Just Like Us, is currently doing the rounds of international festivals, and during a recent stopover in...

Director Ron Howard’s upcoming comedy “The Dilemma” came under fire after a trailer was released featuring the film's star Vince Vaughn’s character referring to electric cars as “gay.” CNN host Anderson Cooper appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and denounced the language, the joke soon disappeared from the film’s trailer. But an insider tells Pop Tarts it wasn’t Anderson-on-"Ellen" that initiated the change. “The decision to change the trailer came two to three weeks prior to Anderson Cooper’s appearance on ‘Ellen’ after learning some people were offended, as well corresponding with GLAAD (The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,)" said...

Thgere was a movie a few years back...IO can only remember parts of the plotline from it's commercials. i was too busy at the time to go to the theatres/rental at the time but here goes: I seem to remember about it being some kind of new "brat pack" crime type movie, based in the Hollywood party scene, and one of the big jokes of the movie, was one chatacter complaining about being fed up with drinking a certain brand of wine that "was all the rage" at all the "in crowd" parties they were going to in the movie.......

So iOwnTheWorld ran a contest of who could come up with the best one-liners about liberals that could go into a roast. The top 20 picks were selected. Check out the original post here for the full list. I had to remove the ones that were a little too R-rated (which was practically half of them) to post at Free Republic. Below are my submissions to their contest: When Pelosi goes to Disneyland does everyone ask her why she hates dalmatians? Barack bashes Bush so much he should date Barney Frank Is it just me or would Biden sound a...

I'm an American comedian who is originally Palestinian. I don't deny that, after 9/11, I've been discriminated against, but only by Airport Security officials. And yes, I’ve missed some connecting flights because I could not run through the airport. If I tried, I would be tackled by well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom. When I plan a vacation with my family, instead of checking the Weather Channel I check the Homeland Security Colors. “Sorry, kids, it’s Orange out. No vacation this year. Too hot for Palestinian-Americans to travel!” I have lived in this Country since 1984. I’m immensely proud...

Just days before millions of Americans vote in the midterm elections, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are encouraging their viewers to gather on the National Mall in Washington D.C. but organizers have yet to secure the necessary permit giving them access to the site. The duo made the announcement on their respective Comedy Central shows Thursday night with "The Daily Show" host Stewart calling his event a “Rally to Restore Sanity.” "The Colbert Report" host is calling his event "March to Keep Fear Alive." In introducing the event, scheduled for October 30, Stewart through his humor made clear the...

A role reversal comedy shown on Saudi television in which a woman marries four husbands has hit the very nerve it satirised - male pride and double standards.The comedy was an episode in Saudi Arabia’s most celebrated satirical series, Tash Ma Tash or No Big Deal, a take-off of social prejudices shown annually during the holy month of Ramadan. The central character takes four husbands, explaining herself using the conventional arguments Saudi men use to exercise their legal and religious privilege of marrying four times. When she remarries for the first time she complains that her existing husband has...

The Australian comedy team of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe present a hilarious and yet informative take on the European and American debt crisis. While unfamiliar to most Americans, these two Australians have been appearing together on Australian television since 1989 when they began doing satirical interviews since on a show called, "A Current Affair". Then in 1997 they began a show called, "The 7:30 Report" which gave them a larger audience and thus more acclaim. Several times they have won the ARIA award for, "Best Australian Comedy". They take their conservative leaning views and routinely destroy the left...

In this episode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program we play a classic re-aring of "Ibbetson Theatre" with Insanity Island, We also play our popular Men's and Women's dating guide. We hear from Victoria Jackson and Jacki and Dunlap from RedState Update. Its a fun holiday show!