Pity the Poor Christmas Cookies
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The Christmas story told through social media, web and mobile:
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thanks Erin
Submitted by Marco Ceglie:
This just in from The Other 98%: Hillary Clinton’s original draft of her statement denouncing WikiLeak’s release of Diplomatic cables
thanks Erin
Christine O’Donnell And The Tea Party Explained
With Crazy Taiwanese Animation
Huffington Post
September 18, 2010
It was inevitable that Christine O’Donnell’s republican primary win in Delaware would get the Taiwanese animation treatment, and here it is! NMA News does what they do best and CGI’s the heck out of O’Donnell’s extremist views, Karl Rove’s anger, and the Democrats’ disbelief that any Tea Party member could win a general election. But are the Democrats underestimating the populist movement? Watch the video:
Not to be outdone by Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive both planned simultaneously for October 30 on the National Mall in Washington DC, masturbators took to the streets in Delaware to protest Republican senatorial nominee Christine O’Donnell’s anti-whacking position:
Delaware Masturbators March Against O’Donnell
The Borowitz Report
September 17, 2010
Largest Pro-wanking Demonstration in History
Wilmington (The Borowitz Report) – Galvanized by Republican senatorial nominee Christine O’Donnell’s anti-masturbation stance, masturbators from across the state converged on Wilmington today in what some are calling the largest pro-wanking protest in American history.
Carrying signs reading, “O’Donnell: Hands Off Our Masturbation,” the angry masturbators clogged downtown Wilmington, stopping traffic for blocks.
Harley Farger, a leading Delaware masturbator and planner of the Million Masturbators March, said it was difficult to organize masturbators “because they’re used to acting alone.” (more…)
Watch the hilarious video of Cee Lo Green’s new single ‘Fuck You!’:
thanks Norman
Submitted by Peter Maloney:
A Niche of the Unreal in a World of Credulity
by Mark Oppenheimer
The New York Times
September 3, 2010
Since 2008, ChristWire.org has emerged as the leading Internet site for ultraconservative Christian news, commentary and weather reportage.
“Hurricane Earl Projected Path, Gay East Coast of America,” ChristWire opined on Monday. One headline in late August proclaimed, “Warning! Black Music Infiltrates the Minds of Future Homemaking White Women.” Last week, referring to Ken Mehlman, the former Republican Party chairman who came out of the closet last month, ChristWire asked, “Why does Ken Mehlman think that choosing the homosexual lifestyle is more important to him than the Republican values he once held so dear?”
ChristWire has lately reached new levels of popularity, in part thanks to an Aug. 14 column, “Is My Husband Gay?” Written by Stephenson Billings, the piece is a 15-point checklist to help wives detect possibly closeted husbands. “Gym membership but no interest in sports” is one warning sign. So is “Sassy, sarcastic and ironic around his friends” and “Love of pop culture.”
“Is My Husband Gay?” was picked up on The Huffington Post and mentioned by Ryan Seacrest on his radio show; so far it has been viewed 8.3 million times.
Oh, by the way: ChristWire is all one big joke. (more…)
OMG WWII on FACEBOOK! from CollegeHumor, by Matthew Leeb:
A modern adaptation of world war II for the american teenager
Roman Danylo, star of “Comedy Inc.” on CTV and the Comedy Network, in the Tantric Sex Seminar sketch
thanks Linda
John Callahan, Cartoonist, Dies at 59
by Bruce Weber
The New York Times
July 28, 2010
John Callahan, a quadriplegic, alcoholic cartoonist whose work in newspapers and magazines made irreverent, impolitic sport of both people with disabilities and diseases and those who would pity and condescend to them, died Saturday in Portland, Ore. He was 59 and lived in Portland.
The causes were complications of quadriplegia and respiratory problems, said his brother Tom.
Like his friend Gary Larson, the creator of “The Far Side,” Mr. Callahan made drawings with a gleeful appreciation of the macabre as it exists in everyday life. He was, however, a man who lived his whole life with disadvantages, some of them self-wrought, and he viewed the world through a dark and wicked lens.
“This is John, I’m a little too depressed to take your call today,” the message on his answering machine said. “Please leave your message at the gunshot.”
Bemused by the culture of confession and self-help fostered by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera and others, he was uninclined, in his work, to be outwardly sympathetic to the afflicted or to respect the boundaries of racial and ethnic stereotyping, and his cartoons were often polarizing: some found them outrageously funny, others outrageously offensive.