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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.
Continue reading...“Black Water” parody song
Friday, June 11, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Devastator Did It!
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Devastator, a new quarterly book of comics and satire, has reached its Kickstarter goal of $4,500! What this means is that the editors, Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows, will receive the pledges and can produce 2,000 copies of their first issue. I met with Geoffrey and Amanda last Monday, and can’t wait to see [...]
Continue reading...The Realist Archive Project
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
In 1958, Paul Krassner founded a “magazine of freethought and satire” called The Realist. Around four decades—and lots of unlikely adventures—later, Krassner closed up shop. Though Krassner’s probably better known for his activities as a Yippie, The Realist is his true legacy and, I would argue, infinitely more substantial. The lovechild of Harvey Kurtzman and [...]
Continue reading...Weird Al biopic
Thursday, March 25, 2010
I had a girlfriend once who loved Weird Al Yankovic. I mean, like, saw him in concert. Several times. Of course it didn’t work out. What does it say when we all know the hackneyed forms of media so well we can parody them exactly, but stop there? This is a key problem with much [...]
Continue reading...What Malcolm X Knew That We Need To Learn
Monday, March 1, 2010
Forty-five years ago last month, Malcolm X was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Moments after he was introduced to speak, someone yelled, “Nigger, get your hand outta my pocket!” Malcolm stepped forward to quell the altercation, then a smoke bomb went off and five assassins opened fire with pistols and a shotgun. [...]
Continue reading...Michael Jackson died for our sins
Sunday, June 28, 2009
When I heard that pop singer Michael Jackson had died, I could not help but remember what a staple he was in the late-night monologues. What would all the hacks, myself included, do now? Crypto-queer GOPers and philandering family-values types can only get you so far. Perhaps Roseanne Barr could be coaxed out of retirement [...]
Continue reading...Judging a “book” by its cover
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I’m taking a break from writing (blogging in particular) for the summer and maybe longer. But there is a controversy afoot, a tiny little tornado in a teacup that, like the ringing of Pavlov’s bell, has wrung an inevitable response from me. I’m just as God made me, folks, a simple satirist and ex-magazine person [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks for Thursday
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Podcast now available! Fox News has hired Joel Surnow, the creator of terror-porn smash ’24′ to create a right-wing version of The Daily Show. Says Surnow, “You can turn on any comedy satire show on TV and you’re going to hear 10 Bush jokes, 10 Cheney jokes, but you’ll never hear a Hillary Clinton.” Yep, [...]
Continue reading...Spy and Kong
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Here’s my friend Dave Etkin’s e-Christmas card. Always a treat. Todd Jackson has an in-depth interview with Kurt Andersen here. Fascinating, for the seven or eight of us who like that sort of thing. There’s a puzzling insistence on Mad Magazine as Spy‘s forebear, when Spy‘s lineage is obvious: Private Eye filtered through the graphic [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
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