Archive for Humor

Political Humor

John McCain and Barack Obama roasted each other at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner tonight. Some of the best television I’ve watched all year.

McCain’s Roast

Obama’s Roast

**UPDATE** I think it’s hilarious that the clips I grabbed for McCain are from Fox News, and the clip for Obama is from MSNBC.

Calvin & Hobbes Wisdom

This made me laugh recently while in the library.

Bill Watterson was a genius. And my son is a spitting image of Calvin—in both wit and wisdom.

Random Links

I usually like to save up random links for a post such as this. Most of the time others blog on the topics before I get a chance to gather enough to make a full post. Some times I just get bored of the topic. Today, however, was a rare instance where I landed on enough cool random links in a single day that I just couldn’t pass it up. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

The Chris Farley Show — The Chris Farley Show is the official, authorized biography of the late actor and comedian Chris Farley. Fans knew Chris as Saturday Night Live’s sweaty, swaggering, motivational speaker; as the irresistible Chippendales stripper; and as Tommy Callahan, the underdog hero of Tommy Boy. His family knew him as sensitive and passionate, deeply religious, and devoted to bringing laughter into others’ lives.

How I Spent My Stimulus — In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. We hope this website helps shed some light on where the stimulus money is going.

Free Dunkin Donuts Coffee — Dunkin’ Donuts is celebrating Free Iced Coffee Day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. next Thursday, May 15. Customers can walk into any participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant throughout the country and receive a free 16 oz. cup of Dunkin’ Donuts’ premium regular, Berry Berry Iced Coffee, which combines the seasonal tastes of blueberry and raspberry with Dunkin’ Donuts’ award-winning coffee, or many other delicious flavors.

First Look at Oliver Stones ‘W’ — Entertainment Weekly goes inside the director’s dark, comic, and already controversial movie about George W. Bush’s rise to power, starring Josh Brolin.

Britain’s War On Chewing Gum — Every year, 935 million packs of gum are chewed by 28 million Britons, leaving millions of sticky, inconvenient lumps in their wake. The globs can only be removed with high pressure steam hoses, expensive freezing machines, or corrosive, environmentally unfriendly chemicals, costing taxpayers £150 ($300) million per year. The desperate state of affairs has attracted millions of dollars of research into non-stick chewing gum, but the country is desperate for a quicker solution.

Barack Obama Podcast — Barack’s greatest hits and most significant policy speeches on iTunes in both video and audio-only formats.

23-6 — 236.com is a co-production between the gigantic, vaguely Death Star-like IAC, and The Huffington Post, a progressive news hub where outraged people go in order to get more outraged before going to have dinner at Nobu.

Marblehead Blog — Marblehead, a marketing and design company that my buddy works for, created this blog to show off their work, share their opinions, and pass on industry news.

Jesus The Entertainer

Rowan Atkinson is great.

Debt Free Living

The New Adjective

Tanner, who turned 4 in July, has been really using his new adjective a lot lately. Tonia and I both love it too much to correct his usage, so everyday is another opportunity to see it used in a new way.

The adjective? Soakin’.

Apparently he took soakin’ (from soakin’ wet) and made it a universal adjective meaning ‘extremely.’

So this morning he told me it was soakin’ dark in the room. A couple days ago while trying to pick up a dumbell, he told me it was soakin’ heavy. Of course, it’s soakin’ cold outside most mornings.

My son is soakin’ funny!

Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing

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Mindless Entertainment

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Here are two sites I ran into yesterday that are tons of fun.

Cereal Killers — A spooky, kooky coffin table cartoon art book featuring terrorfying takes on some of your favorite breakfast cereal’s.

Sweet World PEZ — PEZ dispensers hand transformed by ATYPYK.

Frank TV

So last night while watching some MLB playoff games on TBS, I saw no less than 32 ads for their new show coming this Fall—Frank TV.

Frank TV is a new comedy starring the modern master of impersonation, Frank Caliendo. It will be shot in front of a live audience, but will also include segments filmed at a variety of locations. Everything from current events to icons of the past will be fair game for this comic chameleon.

I’ve always loved his Madden impersonation, and his George W. Bush impersonation is the best I’ve ever seen. This show will definitely be worth catching. It premieres November 20 on TBS.

Watch some clips of the show here.

Oreo Mustache

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