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Humor & Satire | A Meta Calendar
The Miscellany News
If you've been reading the Humor & Satire section for any length of time, you'll have noticed that there's an eerily similar formula from week to week, (In some circles they refer to this as "unbridled laziness" or "self-plagiarism.

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Rebuffed by mainstream, Black turns humor inward
San Francisco Chronicle
It's Black's fourth book following two children's books and the collection of humorous essays "My Custom Van" (sample essay: "What I Would Be Thinking If I Were Billy Joel Driving to a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano").

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Morris besieged; leadership uses humor
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Bosma, meanwhile, spent the day trying to defuse the controversy with humor. He walked around the Statehouse with a box of Girl Scout cookies at all times, offering them to anyone he passed. He also joked from the podium that he had bought 278 cases of ...

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'Urinetown' tackles usual Broadway themes with humor, satire
Post-Tribune
“It has a quirky kind of humor that isn't in most shows,” says Kristen De Boer, the director. “It is very smart and intelligent and will offer the actors and the audience something that they haven't experienced before.” “Urinetown” premiered in 2001, ...
'Urinetown' lowers anchor at the Portage Yacht Clubnwitimes.com

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Humor & Satire | This second-semester senior's Vassar bucket list
The Miscellany News
My senior year is almost over. I am less than three months from a terrifying future of unemployment, living in a tenement in Brooklyn with eight other liberal-arts graduates to a bedroom, surrounded by albino rodents and using shredded pages of ...


Sun-Sentinel

'Roast and Toast' to celebrate Maestro Kula in good humor
Sun-Sentinel
Scholar Henry (Hillel) Abramson will dish up some of the humor and KCO musicians and special guests will also add their funny anecdotes. The dinner will follow the "Roots, Rhythm and Soul" concert, which sets the stage for KCO's 15th season, ...

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The beauty and humor of Minnesota
Albert Lea Tribune
Anyone who doubts that God has a sense of humor needs to come to Minnesota in the winter. I was walking with a lifelong Floridian. She was here because her husband, an avid birder, wanted to look at some northern Minnesota birds.


Rebuffed By Mainstream, Black Turns Humor Inward
Huffington Post (satire)
It's Black's fourth book following two children's books and the collection of humorous essays "My Custom Van" (sample essay: "What I Would Be Thinking If I Were Billy Joel Driving to a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano").


In the Tastes of Young Men, Humor Is Most Prized, a Survey Finds
New York Times
And now research it commissioned about how young men view humor has provided the cable channel with some encouraging conclusions about the preferences of its most important demographic group. More than music, more than sports, more than “personal style ...
Your sense of humor is going to make Comedy Central a ton of moneyMetro.us
'Tosh.0′ Review: Repulsive, Offensive, Politically Incorrect and Undeniably ...Big Hollywood

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Alabama immigration law target of Comic Cowboys' humor on Mardi Gras
al.com
(Press-Register/Mike Kittrell) MOBILE, Alabama -- Alabama's new immigration law, House Bill 56, provided an unintended benefit on Fat Tuesday — grist for the humor mill in the Comic Cowboys' Mardi Gras parade. As muscled and hairy Queen Eva led the ...
Comic Cowboys add humor to paradesWALA-TV FOX10

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