Humor

Late-Period Limbaugh (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

6 Jul 2008

Bush is wildly unpopular. McCain is nobody’s idea of a movement guy. Conservatism is cracking up. What’s the king of talk radio to do?

'Family Guy': A funny but oh-so-wrong view of life (The Pantagraph)

6 Jul 2008

NEW YORK -- All 13-year-old boys are on board with “Family Guy.� They love this show and no wonder. It’s silly, subversive and caters to a 13-year-old boy’s endless craving for humor about bodily emissions.

Inside Jokes: Science Writer Jim Holt Explores Why We Laugh (Wired News)

6 Jul 2008

What do you get when you cross scholarly research and dick jokes? Nothing to laugh at, normally. But science writer Jim Holt defies the Heisenberg principle of humor — you can't study it without killing it — in his book Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes . We caught up with him walking into a bar. Wired: One question you tackle is who invented the joke. ...