I was doing some research last night into the 1950s variety programs “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour” when I came across this incredible sketch by Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray. Amazing to think that Caesar performed original comedy every week in front of a studio audience with no cue cards and no second takes.
Sid Caesar (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
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Kick Ass Insurance & Income Tax
Spotted in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, this weekend.
UPDATE: I think I ought to explain that when I cycled past this shop at the weekend, I first thought that it was offering “Kung Fu Insurance.”
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With all the fuss over the New Yorker front cover and the McCain cartoon it’s refreshing to see something that sends up all of the candidates so effectively…and without causing offense.
Interesting though that while JibJab riffs on McCain as a warmongering, cancer-ridden geriatric, liable to have a heart attack any minute, the best it can come up with for Obama is a Disneyfied, unicorn-riding wuss.
(Via Ben Smith)
Time for Some Campaignin’ (Jib Jab)
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Ben Smith is gathering a small, but growing, compilation of Obama jokes:
A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, “This joke isn’t going to work because there’s no Muslim in this boat.”
Obama Jokes (Politico)
Obama Jokes
While I was at Coney Island this weekend, I got off a couple of lucky shots of an NYPD chopper sweeping low along the beach. At first I thought this was the best photo.
Until I looked back at this one and, even with my lousy eyesight, noticed someone hanging out the door.
What better way to spend a hot summer Sunday at work?
Coney Island
A Completely Distorted View of the Obamas
How Ta-Nehisi Coates could think that infamous New Yorker cover is not overstated enough to qualify as a piece of satire is beyond me.
Everyone knows Obama would have a portrait of Sayyid Qutb over the fireplace before he even thought of bin Laden.
Michelle Obama with a Kalashnikov? Puh-lease. According to the last completely true anonymous viral email I read, Michelle packs an Uzi under her clothes. (Besides, D.C. gun laws, while moving in the right direction, have not not yet matured enough to allow the carrying of automatic weapons in the home or office.)
And an American flag in the fireplace when it could be put to much better and more eco-friendly use in the bathroom?
Come on, that cover is a complete caricature.
Maybe white folks shouldn’t draw pictures of Michelle Obama… (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
