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Friday Humor Break: Hockey Moms For Truth

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 10th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Humor, Politics, Sarah Palin

H/T: Stephen Littau

SNL Takes On The Bailout Deal

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 6th, 2008. Filed under Economics, Humor, Politics

In addition to yet another Sarah Palin skit, last weekend’s Saturday Night Live also took on the recently passed bailout package:

Heh
Update: For reasons I have yet to figure out, the video has been pulled from Hulu and NBC.com. Michelle Malkin has the details.

SNL Does The Vice-Presidential Debate

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, October 5th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Humor, Joe Biden, Politics, Sarah Palin, Television

Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live again to spoof Sarah Palin and Thursday’s VP debate:
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president.
Fey again returned to “Saturday Night Live” to play Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as the sketch comedy show continued to pull out all [...]

Homer Simpson Tries To Vote For Obama

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 3rd, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Humor, Politics, Television, The Simpsons

Those darn Diebold machines !

U.S. Mint To Unveil New Dollar Bill

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, September 30th, 2008. Filed under Humor

H/T: Professor Bainbridge

SNL & The Election: The Debate Skit

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, September 28th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Humor, John McCain, Politics

In addition to the spot-on Palin/Couric parody, Saturday Night Live also did a fairly good bit on Friday night’s debate:

The bits about McCain’s suspension gambit were pretty funny, although I’m fairly certain that nobody in America would attend a nude candidate’s town hall that included John McCain.

SNL & The Election: Tina Fey Nails Sarah Palin, Again

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, September 28th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Humor, Politics, Sarah Palin

Last night’s Saturday Night Live kicked off with another Tina Fey-Amy Poehler skit, this one parodying Palin’s interviews with CBS’s Katie Couric earlier this week (see here, here, and here):

The funniest moment for me came when Fay/Palin tells Couric/Poehler that she wants to “phone a friend.” Frankly, there were several times during last week’s interview [...]

Another Suspended Campaign

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 25th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Baseball, Humor, John McCain, New York Yankees, Politics, Sports

Taking their cue no doubt from John McCain, the New York Yankees have made the ultimate sacrifice:
The Yankees announced yesterday that they were suspending their campaign for the American League pennant due to the dire state of the economy. “This is not the time for partisan attempts to win baseball games,” said Hank Steinbrenner. “I [...]

Coming To An E-Mail InBox Near You

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 25th, 2008. Filed under Economics, Humor

When you think about it, it’s sort of inevitable:
Dear sir or madam,
I must need to ask your support an urgent secret business relationship concerning transfer of funds with great magnitude.
I am being the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had recent crisis urgently requiring the need for large transfer [...]

SNL Does Palin And Hillary

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, September 14th, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Humor, Politics, Sarah Palin

SNL may not be funny anymore, but it had it’s moments during the Obama/Clinton primary and it looks like we’ll be in for some of the same over the next six weeks:

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