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Gary Johnson's Big Joke Keeps Getting Older

John Johnson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:14:33 CDT

He still gets points for delivery, but Gary Johnson's well-received joke at last night's debate—"My neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this president"—goes back even further than thought, notes Daily Intel . For starters, Rush Limbaugh used it before the debate on his show. "I guess...

Dalai Lama Pizza Joke Goes Splat

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:40:00 CDT

A goofy Aussie news anchor did not find eternal satisfaction when his lame pizza joke fell flat with a confused Dalai Lama. "So the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop," begins anchor Karl Stevanovic (confused look from Dalai Lama, who turns to his translator for clarification). "Then he says,...

Glenn Beck to MSNBC: Bend Over

Kevin Spak — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:17:28 CDT

The right has been having a field day with MSNBC's new "Lean Forward" campaign, but Glenn Beck got in perhaps the best dig on it yet on his radio show. "By the way, MSNBC, why don't you just make your slogan 'Bend Over?'" he teased, in this clip spotted by...

Jones Puts Foot in Mouth With Jewish Joke

Kevin Spak — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:25:00 CDT

Jim Jones gave a major speech at a top Middle East think tank last week, but the information he imparted has been drowned out by the kerfluffle over the joke he opened his remarks with—in which a Jewish merchant fleeces a thirsty Taliban fighter. It's tame stuff, and the...

Duluth One-Ups Topeka in Google Wars

Harry Kimball — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:17:28 CST

From this day forth, all-first born children of Duluth, Minnesota, shall be named Google or Googlette Fiber. Well, that’s not true, but the city has produced a parody video saying so in a rejoinder to Topeka. That city changed its name to Google in an effort to secure the search...

The Worst Pop Music Puns

Nick McMaster — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:17:36 CST

Hate puns? Consider this stinker from Robbie Williams' latest record: " What's so great about the great depression/Is it a blast for you?/Because it's blas-phe-my." Ouch. Puns are uniformly terrible in pop and rock. NME cobbles together some of the worst pun song titles: Salt N Pepa: "A Salt With A...

Chavez Supporters Can't Take Moore's Joke

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:33:00 CDT

So Michael Moore and Hugo Chavez walk into a hotel, split a bottle and a half of tequila, and ... what's the punchline? There isn't one for Chavistas torqued over the filmmaker's joke to Jimmy Kimmel that the two partied down at the Venice Film Festival, and Moore's claim that he...

Palin Ignored Leno's Crack on Bristol

Katherine Thompson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:45:00 CDT

A late-night comic cracking a joke about an adult man getting an underage Palin daughter pregnant? Sounds like perfect fodder for the former vice-presidential candidate's outrage... except there was no outcry, points out Alan Colmes' Liberaland. Back in September, Jay Leno joked that the philandering John Edwards had something to...

Washington Can't Take a Joke

Matt Cantor — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:44:00 CDT

Sure, Wanda Sykes’ controversial jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner were “over the top,” and they weren’t all that funny, writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post . But the uproar they sparked just shows “we take ourselves far too seriously—and literally.” Sykes is a comedian; of course...