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Archives for August 2009

Federal Reserve Chairman Sees His Shadow, Letterman Sees His Target

by Jane Wangersky August 31st, 2009 | Humor, Late Night TV
David Letterman found plenty of ways to make fun of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
Today, the Federal Reserve Chairman saw his shadow, so that means six more weeks of recession . . . He will serve four more years, or until the United States becomes a colony of China.

He looks like a guy who ran a Madoff feeder fund. He looks like a personal physician to a pop star. He looks like a medical examiner on Kojak. Kojak? How old is this guy?

He looks like a dry cleaner who can't find your suit pants.
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Famous in England, but . . .

by Jane Wangersky August 28th, 2009 | Humor, Late Night TV
British comedian Russell Brand recently asked if there were any English people in his audience.
I'm never sure, when I ask that question, what manner of response I'll receive. Sometimes an Englishman will just demurely raise a handkerchief. "Yes, I'm English, what of it?"

English people present will be able to testify that I’m famous in England. Admittedly,  fame does lose a little of its cachet when you have to tell people that you have it.

He doesn’t like being non-famous in the U.S. because:
My personality doesn’t work without fame. Without fame, this haircut just looks like mental illness.
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The Lego Giraffe Lost What?!

by Michele August 27th, 2009 | Humor
Mistakes happen, but some mistakes are more humorous than others.

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that the Lego giraffe at Legoland Discovery Center in Berlin, Germany, had a body part stolen.

This body part was noted as a part of the male anatomy.

However, the aforementioned giraffe is neither male nor female, so it was not an organ of sexual nature that was stolen.  Rather, it was the giraffe's tail.

Reuters quickly corrected their error and  noted that the giraffe had lost its tail.  The error seems to have occurred when translating the German word "schwanz", which can mean either of the aforementioned
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Scottish Humo(u)r

by Jane Wangersky August 26th, 2009 | Humor
The BBC has some of the best jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:
Paddy Lennox - "I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'."

Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) - "I started so many fights at my school - I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn't finish a lot of them."

And one of the worst:
Alistair McGowan - "I've just split up from my girlfriend, which is a shame, because it was a long-standing arrangement. Perhaps if we'd sat down a
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More Election Humor from Afghanistan

by Michele August 25th, 2009 | Humor, Late Night TV
David Letterman had thoughts on several different election topics:

Results:
. . .I got some early results from the Afghanistanian election. And this just in, apparently Al Franken is ahead.

Voting issues:
You folks excited about the Afghanistan election? Well, don’t get too excited because there’s already reports of irregularities in Broward and Dade County.

Campaigning:
You think campaigning is difficult here in the United States. You try campaigning in Afghanistan. You ever try to put a bumper sticker on a camel? I mean, come on.
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