Just about every week, I send a message to my e-mail list with career updates, general silliness and what I call “momentary jokes” — current events-based humor. I’m going to experiment with sharing some of that with the wider blog audience. So enjoy! And if you do, head over to baratunde.com to join the list.
Continue reading ‘Momentary Jokes: Week Ending August 29, 2004′
Thanks to all who rolled to see me perform at the Improv in New York City. Now I can say I killed during the RNC! I’m just sad I missed the protests, but it’s moving time in Boston 
Tomorrow night I’m performing comedy at the NY Improv, just in time for the RNC, yall.
I need to have 10 reservations by 2pm today, and I need yall to show up!
If not, no performing for me. They’ve invited me back cause I did so well the last time, and if I keep doing well, I don’t have to put up with this beggar bullshit anymore (at least not at this club).
Continue reading ‘I’m performing political humor in NYC tomorrow night!’
Tonight, John Kerry will appear on the Daily Show. Check out this article over at my former employer, and see how the Daily show producers “frame” the debate.
Daily Show producer: If you just want to pinpoint the success of the Republican Party and Bush, this is a perfect case study,” Karlin continued, “because George W. Bush has put a moratorium on talk about his behavior under the age of 40 and everyone [in the press] is abiding by it. ‘Were you or were you not an alcoholic or did you just have a drinking problem?,’ ‘Were you or were you not a drug abuser?’ Meanwhile they’re debating whether [Kerry's war] wounds drew blood or were they superficial, or occurred in the same day, or whether he shot a guy wearing a toga. . . . How is that possible?
First, as Jon Stewart so eloquently put it last night, “they are neither swift, nor truthful.” Second, and perhaps more importantly, can’t anyone see the hypocrisy sitting in the middle of the room??? By claiming that Kerry got these medals erroneously, these veterans and their conservative backers (so called friends of the military) are straight up dissing the military! They’re saying the military can’t even figure out who shot who and if there were bullets flying!
Continue reading ‘Here’s my problem with the Swift Boat Biatches’
Real quick: I just found out that the forces of evil have lost in their attempt to hold P2P software developers liable for the copyright infringement of their users. Basically, the court upheld the Betamax decision. Read more here
Wow, campaign season really brings out the creativity in folks. Many of you may have heard about Russel Simmon’s Hip Hip Summit Action Network, and back in June there was a Hip Hop Political Convention, but given the president’s troubles with the english language and rappers’ extreme facility, the folks over at SlamBush are giving you an opportunity to battle the president, lyrically. The video is hot!
This photo is courtesy of the Portland Tribune in Oregon. Caption reads: An unidentified supporter of President Bush tries to silence protester Kendra Lloyd-Knox (right) outside Southridge High School in Beaverton. Elsewhere in Portland, supporters of Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., rallied on the waterfront
Addendum: I’ve found a great compilation of writings on this topic as well as the most hilarious rant ever
A few weeks ago, RealNetworks announced that it had created a method (unsanctioned by Apple) for users to put their music downloaded from Real onto their iPods. This has created a lot of hubbub in the mainstream and blogger media, but I have found the best article out there on Real’s decision to enable its music store downloads to work on the Apple iPod. The author provides an impressive set of historical information and high quality analysis. He also rips the mainstream media, particularly USA TODAY, a new one.
These are the words of an elderly black voter in Florida. According to NY Times columnist Frank Herbert, there’s something rotten in the state of Florida, and it has nothing to do with the Hurricane Charley.
Continue reading ‘Am I going to go to jail now because I voted by absentee ballot?’
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