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The Second Thanksgiving

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

"I thought we asked you to bring the cranberry sauce."

Every American knows the story of the First Thanksgiving, when the Wampanoag Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvation and the two peoples celebrated with a feast. Lesser known is the "Second Thanksgiving." Like most Holidays, there was a lot of aggression..

GOVERNOR BRADFORD: (raising a glass) ...And so I'd like to propose a toast to another feast of Thanksgiving, and to our good neighbors, the Wampanoag.

CHIEF MASSASOIT: We are happy to see you have prospered these last 12 months. In fact, we've noticed there are more of you this year. A lot more.

GOVERNOR: Indeed, new boats from the Old World are landing every day.

CHIEF: So then you're all here to stay? Or...?

GOVERNOR: Of course! Come now, what foods have your people brought?

CHIEF: Nothing. You guys built a city where we used to grow our crops, remember?

GOVERNOR: (under his breath) I thought we weren't going to get into this at dinner.

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Every Part of the Buffalo

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

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The Wisdom of King Solomon

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:00:00 -0500

KING SOLOMON: We will cut the baby in half!

MOTHER: No, don't harm the child! I'd rather lose it than see the baby killed.

GUARD: Surely, she must be the true mother to care for the baby so! (to King) You are wise, King Solomon! (calling) Have the next subject come forward with his case.

A Farmer enters.

FARMER: Your Highness, I cannot feed my family. My cow is sick.

KING SOLOMON: (thinks) We will cut the cow in half!

FARMER: Forgive me, your Highness. But how would that help, exactly?

GUARD: Do not question the King's wisdom. Next case!

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Classic Titles Made Sarcastic With Quotation Marks

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0500

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Is it George Costanza? Is it Kevin from The Office? Is it a pedophile? NOBODY KNOWS

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:55:06 -0500

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Mike Sacks: A Very Unfunny Talk About Very Funny People

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:00 -0400

In these bleak modern times, even a book devoted to comedy isn't without it's dark side. Mike Sacks's And Here's the Kicker, in which the Vanity Fair writer interviews 21 humorists (including Bob Odenkirk, Harold Ramis and David Sedaris) is decidedly serious, dissecting not only comedians' work and lives as pro joke-tellers, but their fears and anxieties, too. Mr. Sacks spoke with CollegeHumor about these grimmer aspects of comedy, including serial killers, chronic loneliness, and how telling a joke can be a lot like a diagnosing a disease.

Even though you talked to dozens of funny writers in researching this book, it aggressively favors analysis over jokes. Was there a lot of goofing around on either end of the interviews?
Definitely not. They were all serious. And they appreciated the fact that I didn't want them to be clowns. You know, just because you can write funny doesn't mean you're "on." In fact, usually it means just the opposite.

What determined the kinds of questions you did wind up asking?
It was just basically avoiding the questions they'd been asked a million times. In a lot of cases I'd come across one reference to something [in my research] and it was never mentioned again, but it was fascinating. When I interviewed Marshall Brickman, who co-wrote Annie Hall and Manhattan, I read close to 30 interviews, and in this one interview he mentioned that he almost attended Sharon Tate's house the night of the Manson Murders.

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Horse Scare

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:51:00 -0400

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Pig Slop Disaster

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:07:00 -0400

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iPod Ads Through History

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:00:00 -0400

<table border=0 width="360px"> <tr> <td colspan=2> Apple's famous, minimalist mp3 player ads have proven so effective, one wonders how the music playing devices of yesteryear managed to get sold. If only Mozart had thought to use these ads -- then he'd be TRULY important. (Illustrations by Breanna Goodrow.)

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Benny Hill's Bobby Cops File Their Police Reports

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:00 -0400

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Kung-Fu Mega Screams

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:11:05 -0400

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Insane Movie Teaser

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:28:00 -0500

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Kevin Smith: An X-Rated Primer

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:10:12 -0400

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Long before The 40-Year-Old Virgin made films about horny underachievers an acceptable cinematic genre, Kevin Smith was the immature American movie-going male's primary source of highbrow dick jokes. Smith's latest film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, may seem like a grand experiment of Smith's in X-rated transgression, but an overview of the director's long and delightfully vulgar career shows us that Kevin Smith has been making audiences cringe for as long as he's been making them laugh.

Clerks

Smith's notoriously cheap black-and-white debut may be visually low-key, but the director's pornographic sensibilities were well under way from the moment he yelled his first "action." In the clip below, 14 years before Smith would devote an entire film to the adult entertainment industry, a sex-obsessed video store proprietor named Randall places the most vulgar order of VHS cassettes in home video history:

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Back-to-School: A Video Primer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:49:15 -0400

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Late Registration

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:58:30 -0400

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James Curtis, PhD.
Dept. of Humanities

Dear Prof. Curtis,

It has come to my attention that your English 212 course, "Mark Twain and the American Spirit," has been filled for the Fall 2008 semester. Unfortunately, I require your class in order to graduate before the Spring, and (through NO fault of my own) failed to register in time. Would it be possible to fit me in at this point? As a father of 3 soon-to-be high school graduates, I'm sure you can understand the seriousness of this situation.

I understand the necessity of strict deadlines in a busy college system. However, failure to graduate by May would force me to enroll in a summer course and move into an off-campus apartment, such as old Ms. Garrett's basement room on 330 Hibiscus Lane. While this room would of course be less than the mortgage you pay on your house on that very same street, you can respect the financial strain high rents would place on a part-time student -- even one without three lovely daughters to raise. And protect.

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Lou Bega Doesn't Mind If You Illegally Download His Music

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:31:04 -0400

Buenos dias, my legions of young fans. It is I, Lou Bega, the Latin sensation that set the music charts en fuego in 1999 with "Mambo No. 5." Back then, there wasn't a station in all of America that wouldn't spin my Calypso rhythms at least 3 times each hour, BURNING the lyrics into your brains like so much habenero sauce on your virgin tongues. Now, I have made my triumphant return to support my fans in their revolucion against the record companies over this, how you say, "file-sharing," and to say that I, Lou Bega, give America my blessing to download my music all it wants.

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Your Guide to Fictional Little People

Thu, 22 May 2008 18:17:55 -0400

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God, According to Indiana Jones

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:21 -0400

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

GOD: Moses, you will take these 10 Holy Commandments down to the Israelites, so that my laws may be obeyed.

MOSES: Thank you, my Lord.

GOD: You will then seal my Commandments in a sacred ark, where they will be protected.

MOSES: But what if someone should try and open it?

GOD: Then I shall melt their faces.

MOSES: I'm... I'm sorry, my Lord. What was that?

GOD: Scary ghosts shall pop out, and I shall melt their faces. Just melt them right off, my son.

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Jack Handey

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:04:39 -0400

As the name behind Saturday Night Live's short-but-hilarious "Deep Thoughts," writer Jack Handey has become synonymous with the art of the bizarre one liner. Since leaving SNL (where he also wrote several memorable sketches, including "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer") in 2002, Handey has contributed humorous essays to The New Yorker, and in April, published What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats, a collection of his writing. Below, he talks with CollegeHumor about comedy and car-driving felines.

What I'd Say To The Martians includes both essays and Saturday Night Live scripts. Are either of these formats more difficult than the other?
Both are hard. To me, the best humor pieces are written from the point of view of a specific character. So when you're thinking of ideas, you think about what your character would be interested in, what he could pontificate about. In TV, you're just trying to come up with a funny ideas. Also, in TV you're thinking visually. I do, anyway. I try to think of a funny image, and then what might explain that funny image.

For sheer writing, doing a humor piece is probably more difficult. But physically, TV really wears you out. Saturday Night Live, anyway. There the writers produce their own pieces, so you have to make sure the sets, props, sound effects, etc., are right. By the after-show party, you're ready for that beer.

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10 Two-logies That Should Have Been Trilogies

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:43:36 -0400

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Meat Loaf once said that "two out of three ain't bad." But if Hollywood can have the audacity to give us three "Shrek"s, four "Lethal Weapon"s, and "Police Academy: Mission to Moscow," they can certainly complete the following uncompleted trilogies.

"Escape from New York" and "Escape From L.A."

There are over 15 thousand cities in the United States. Why has Kurt Russel's one-eyed convict "Snake" Plissken only escaped from two of them? Why not "Escape from Pittsburgh?" "Escape from Bismark, North Dakota?" Or "Escape from Newark" (which is already the primary goal of anyone who lives in New Jersey anyway)? Certainly Kurt Russel would be game to dawn the black eye patch once again: "Escape from L.A." is about the closest he's been to Hollywood in the last 12 years.

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