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Video from the UCB: “BP Spills Coffee”

This very funny video from UCB.com wrings laughs out of the Gulf oil spill by portraying BP as a bunch of gibbering subnormals. Is it funny? Unquestionably. But they should've taken that next step.

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“Black Water” parody song

Here’s a pretty good parody of the Doobie Brothers’ “Black Water” by Steve Goodie. The topic? Take a guess. By the way, I looked at several “Downfall” parodies related to the BP oil spill in the Gulf, but none of them seemed quite up to snuff. As well-crafted as Steve’s parody song is, it makes [...]

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Jeremy Hornik, Quizmaster

This, from il mio amico hystericalissimo Jeremy Hornik: Jeremy Hornik just took the “What kind of giant green thing in New York Harbor are you?” quiz and got the result: Statue of Liberty. Statue of Liberty: you came from France to signify America. You like spiky hats. Who will you burn with that torch? If [...]

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I love postwar Italian cinema…

…so it made sense that I adored Martin Scorsese’s A Trip to Italy, a multi-hour documentary celebrating the films of Rosselini, De Sica, Antonioni, Fellini, and the guy who did “Senso,” whose name I can’t remember. Fellini is the BEST. When I grow up, I want to be played by Marcello Mastroianni.

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P.J. O’Rourke in The Onion…

The Onion recently ran this interview with P.J. O’Rourke, timed (I suppose) to the recent rerelease of the National Lampoon High School Yearbook Parody, which PJ co-edited with Doug Kenney back in 1974. While we’re on the subject, and sorry to fulfill everybody’s expectations by saying so (“Ahh, nobody knows how to do print humor [...]

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Just read an interesting interview with the head of The Onion’s excellent A/V section. Combining serious coverage with comedy content was a new idea in 1993 when they started doing it. (And was a primary feature of the “comedy Rolling Stone” I was pitching to magazine companies in Manhattan.) But the interesting thing would be to [...]

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A new National Lampoon magazine?

In something scientifically designed to drive me insane, the New York Observer has an article about Rugged Land publishing’s recent attempts to resurrect National Lampoon as a print magazine. (Previous to this, they were planning to do everything BUT a magazine.) I’m dubious that Harvard Lampoon (which forced the 1998 shuttering of J2′s dreadful version, [...]

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