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The 50 funniest American writers* : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David Sedaris, Roy Blount, and Bernie Mac, this book is an exclusive collection of the very best American comic writing.
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CAT STEVENS STRIKES BACK, For some, singing badly is the best revenge
On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry blasted President George W. Bush for the Cat Stevens incident, saying Bush's reckless actions had resuscitated an irritating singer's long-dormant recording career. \"When George Bush took office, Cat Stevens was not a threat,\" Kerry told a rally in Akron, Ohio. \"Through a successful policy of containment, his music had mainly been limited to classic rock stations. But now, thanks to George Bush's misguided decision to provoke Cat Stevens, we may be subjected to renditions of 'Morning Has Broken' and 'Moonshadow' and 'Wild World' for years to come.\"
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Humor, rage and growing up on Mr. Shteyngart's planet
The shutki continue to fly in Mr. [Gary Shteyngart]'s direction even after -- or maybe especially after -- he becomes a successful novelist (\"The Russian Debutante's Handbook,\" \"Absurdistan,\" \"Super Sad True Love Story\"). Treating his parents to dinner at the revolving restaurant atop the Marriott Marquis to celebrate his mother's birthday, Mr. Shteyngart is a sitting duck as his father fires off this one: \"I read on the Russian Internet that you and your novels will soon be forgotten.\" While that may not sound exactly like a joke, it's riotous compared with what he tells his son at another dinner: \"I burn with a black envy toward you. I should have been an artist as well.\" Yet, for all his Chekhovian gloom, Mr. Shteyngart's dad is still capable of enlivening Gary's childhood by telling him outlandish, funny stories, like \"The Planet of the Yids,\" a sci-fi saga about a Jewish planet under constant attack by volleys of pork. Mr. Shteyngart summarizes his father's duality -- and his own -- by referring to \"the rage and humor that are our chief inheritance.\" After graduation, he moves to New York and falls for Pamela, a woman who has everything, including another boyfriend. \"I love Pamela,\" he writes. \"She is what I've been waiting for all my life. A chance to lower myself into complete abasement, a chance to beg for someone's love over and over again, knowing I will never get it.\" Pamela later serves a jail term for following a man into a public bathroom and hitting him in the head repeatedly with the claw end of a hammer. (\"How quickly the term 'Pamma Hamma Slamma' would be coined.\")
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CASE OF SPY VS. CLUELESS SPIES
\"I guess we were so busy monitoring the everyday communications of every man, woman and child in the nation that we didn't notice that a contractor working for us was downloading tons of classified documents,\" the spokesman said. \"It's definitely embarrassing, for sure.\"
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The Scotsman
CRAIG FERGUSON isn't kidding. That's what struck me as I turned the pages of the Scottish late-night comedian's memoir, \"American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot.\" Almost every time Ferguson has a chance to go for a cheap, easy laugh-- the mother's milk of late-night...
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A comic's memoir devoid of wisecracks
[Craig Ferguson] isn't kidding. That's what struck me as I turned the pages of the Scottish late-night comedian's memoir, \"American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot.\" Almost every time Mr. Ferguson has a chance to go for a cheap, easy laugh -- the mother's milk of late-night comedy -- he runs in the opposite direction. The fact that Mr. Ferguson has the Scottish version of chutzpah shouldn't come as a surprise to regular viewers of his U.S. TV program, \"The Late Late Show,\" on CBS. Since his debut as host in 2005, he has evolved into something of an anti-Jay Leno, trading the rapid-fire delivery of canned topical jokes cooked up in a writers' room for something more idiosyncratic and risky: a loopy, seemingly ad-libbed monologue in which he talks with, not at, the audience. (I say \"seemingly\" because Mr. Ferguson, of course, has a roomful of writers and is working from bullet points, but his performance skills are such that he makes his monologues sound like they're something daft that just occurred to him.) There's some irony in the spectacle of a man who jump-started his comedy career by lampooning a Scottish uber-patriot becoming an American uber-patriot, but Mr. Ferguson doesn't acknowledge it. A book that begins with him sharing a toast to America with President [George W. Bush] ends with a chapter full of heartfelt declarations of love for his chosen country. Speaking of his on-air campaign for citizenship, he writes, \"I wanted ... native-born Americans to understand the thrill and exhilaration that comes from joining the land of the free.\" Once again, Mr. Ferguson isn't kidding. To be an American this patriotic, it probably helps to be Scottish.
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BUSH TOYING WITH NEW WAR STRATEGY
\"I'd like to see what would happen if al-Qaida tried to attack one of our tanks, and instead the tank got up on its legs and turned out to be a robot and started shooting at them,\" Mr. [George W. Bush] said. \"That would be so cool.\" \"A tank that can turn into a giant robot is awesome, but it's not an exit strategy,\" said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. \"She has experience at ending things,\" Mr. Bush said.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
\"According to projections, if members of the Cabinet actually paid their taxes, we could wind up with a budget surplus in excess of $18.2 billion,\" said Obama economic adviser Paul Volcker.
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Millions of Americans who watched Obama's appearance on CBS' \"60 Minutes\" last Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tic, which had Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.
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