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GIRLS POWER

Lena Dunham teams up with UCBT for a fundraiser

What's Happening: Questlove at Pork Slope and Let's Brisket!

Ed Lefkowitz/BAM Monday, December 17 Beagle and Governor Dinner: East Village's the Beagle will team up with Governor, the Dumbo restaurant that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, for a three-course sherry-paired dinner. Tickets are $85 or $125 depending on your drink selections. Half of the procee ... More >>

FUNNY PEOPLE

It’s ok to laugh at this Sandy fundraiser

Mirman & the Barnacle Boys

Satirizing Presidential Politics Is Nothing New

It existed way before The Daily Show and even before Saturday Night Live! In fact, a 1962 comedy album starring comedian/impersonator Vaughn Meader was a cultural phenomenon and ended up winning the Grammy for Album of the Year. And 50 years later, it's back and bigger than ever. Bob Booker, who ... More >>

Palling Around

The gang's all 
at the bellhouse

'George Carlin Street': It Could Happen!

​Legendary comic George Carlin, recently and beautifully memorialized by Louis C.K., started out his life in Morningside Heights. He lived on 121st Street between Amsterdam and Broadway for pretty much the entirety of his childhood, starting in the '40s, and now his fans are pushing for the ci ... More >>

Jon Stewart Questions New York's Priorities: Sweet Corn Before Same-Sex Marriage?

Yesterday we questioned just what the New York State Senate was doing addressing issues like horse racing, tightrope walking and the Miss Chinese New York pageant during their extended summer session, while leaving important issues like rent control and, oh, marriage equality for the very, very end. ... More >>

How To Throw a Party in 2011: Get Naked!

I dance, I chat with Brooke Shields, I learn about female private parts

Aasif Mandvi Forced to Cook Indian Food in Today's Special

Aasif Mandvi's 'Tandoori Comedy,' Today's Special, Premieres Next Week

Hot stuff.​The so-called tandoori comedy by The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi premieres next Friday, November 19, at select theaters in the city. See Today's Special, starring Mandvi, Bollywood star Naseeruddin Shah, and Indian cookbook legend Madhur Jaffey, at the Sunshine Cinema on Houston Stree ... More >>

The Village Voice Guide to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Via​If there's a possibility that you care, then you already know: today is Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington D.C. A bunch of liberals and reporters are currently making their way to our nation's capital by any means necess ... More >>

Who Cares How Many People Attended the Rally to Restore Sanity?

The Million Man March​Because it is difficult to form and articulate intelligent thoughts, in general, but specifically about an event that blurs the lines between sincerity, irony, comedy and politics, much of the conversation surrounding Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore San ... More >>

Morning Links: Charlie Sheen's "Hooker" Was a Porn Star; D.C. Metro Bomb Plotter Arrested; Kidnapping Attempt in the East Village

​• Charlie Sheen's mystery "hooker" was actually a porn star, "Capri Anderson," who's "adamant she's not a working girl," according to TMZ, and was very upset to be identified as such. Her dad, of course, had no idea what she did for a living. [NYP]

CUTIE PIE

Kristen Schaal makes us laugh

ChatRoulette Made Relevant Possibly for the Last Time by Genius, Hysterical Marketing Campaign (Video)

​Yes, if you can see that headline, you read it correctly: "Genius," and "Hysterical." Two things people haven't thought about ChatRoulette being since, well, everyone got over the initial excitement of ChatRoulette. Destined to be, at most, the Standard-Bearer for Sleepover Amusement (Compute ... More >>

Cloned Meat & Milk May Have Hit the Shelves; Rare Yellow Lobster Found

​Although no vendor has publicly acknowledged it, meat and dairy products originating from cloned animals may already be on supermarket shelves in Europe. [NY Times] Gordon Ramsay reportedly owes some $2 million in taxes. The celebrity chef now has three TV shows in the U.S.: Hell's Kitchen, ... More >>

Barack Obama, on ChatRoulette: "I'm Just Trying to Reach Out to Americans, But They Just Keep Reaching for Themselves"

Via The Daily What and Metafilter, singer Ben Folds has masterfully done it, the staff of Newsweek has done it to embarrassing and hysterical effect, The Daily Show did it, so naturally, it's now time for President Barack Obama to hit up the social freak experiment known as ChatRoulette. Of course ... More >>

Rick Lazio's History of Fearmongering with 'Misinformation' on Health-Care Reform. We Dig Up a Memo.

Lazio needed health care in 2000 when he fell and busted his lip in front of everyone on the first day of his futile Senate campaign. See Jon Stewart's clip.By Scott Greenberg Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's "Stop Obamacare" campaign sounds suspiciously like one of his fearmongering strategies ... More >>

Hey, Barack Obama Made a Notorious B.I.G. Joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Word is, the president's routine from this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner--which killed, by the way--was put together in consultation with writers from the Daily Show. But anyone who knows anything about Barack Obama's musical tastes knows that he probably didn't need any help using B ... More >>

Exclusive: Further Legal Troubles Rumored For Gawker

​The battle between New York-based blog network Gawker Media and Apple over an exposed iPhone prototype is far from over, having made The Daily Show last night. Looks like they're going to have more legal troubles on their hands, however, though not from Apple this time. We hear that there are ... More >>

Furry Vengeance, a Movie with a Message-and Not Much Else

Barack Obama Is "Black, African Am., or Negro" and Other Fun Census Facts

​According to the Times, Barack Obama thinks he's "African-American," he's actually 'Black,' and "some older blacks" anachronistically think he's a "Negro." What we know for sure, because a White House spokesman confirmed it on Friday, is that the President checked "Black, African Am., or Negr ... More >>

Another Clinton Promise Betrayed

Bill Clinton recently taped a Daily Show segment in New York, and the autograph hounds of TopPix lay in wait. When he arrived, they begged for a signing; the former President said, "I gotta go do this first, I'm late" -- clearly implying consent. But when he left the studio, the famously prevarica ... More >>

STAND-UP COMEDIANS

Jokes for a good cause

The Blogroll Gazette--Top Chef Masters Reactions & Food Inc. Reviews Abound

This week in food blogs... The Feedbag and Eat Me Daily weighed in on the discussion presented at "Gender Confusion: Unraveling the Myths of Gender in the Restaurant Kitchen," a panel discussion held at the Astor Center this week. Ed Levine of Serious Eats sat on the panel. Conclusion? Not really b ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

Empire State Building Cuts Power for Earth Day

There's more to Earth Day than anti-Communist ravings and deposits on water bottles. Nick Cannon, actor-DJ-Mr. Mariah Carey, and Spongebob Squarepants, fresh from his Earth Day appearance on the Daily Show, are here to tell you that the Empire State Building will power down for 60 seconds tonight ... More >>

I'm Gonna Be On Match Game Live!

I just got a press release saying I'm a celebrity panelist on a live game show, so I guess it's really happening. In fact, I'm pulling together my best Brett Somers wig and Charles Nelson Reilly pants suit (or vice versa) as we speak! Here's the release:

Pulp Fictions: Jeff Smith's RASL: The Drift, House of Mystery, and Dan Goldman's "Yes We Will"

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. RASL: The Drift Jeff Smith Cartoon Books You could zip through RASL: The Drift, which collects the first three issues of Jeff Smith's self-published book, in less than an hour, or you could linger on his carefully composed p ... More >>

NO LAUGHING MATTER

Your favorite comics raise money for autism

Dirty Blonde: Book Eaters, CMJ, and Studio B's Demise

That infamous festival is back, though chicks may happily dominate this year

DAILY ZINGERS

Jon Stewart should really thank her

TUNE IN

EVR celebrates five years of eclectic listening

REALITY REALLY DOES BITE

The truth about Janeane Garofalo

Nervous Exploding Arabs

And meet Mr. Hoptoit McNegropants—a Daily Show writer offers A Practical Guide to Racism

Evan Can Wait

Why in God's name did Steve Carell take the paycheck?

Music

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

That '70s Show

'Saturday Night Live' in the post-Tina Fey, YouTube unknown

Mon+Tue 7/24-25

Emo-Rapper Plays Mulititude of Roles, Tries Not to Lose Grip

Jesus Christ! Jews Joke Around and Tell Tales at Joe's Pub

The Interpreter

The Rise of Fareed Zakaria: Muslim, Heartthrob, Super-Pundit

Horoscope

Booked Solid This Weekend: Celebrating the Indie Spirit

American Way, Naked Supremes in Daily Show's Faux Textbook

Liberal Comforters

Jon and Bill: The hosts who make us laugh when we'd rather cry

Shovin' It

Democrats and hardballing pundits, pleasantly embedded in the economic elite

Machine Age