Jason P. Lorber, the show's producer, has performed improv locally with Kamikaze Comics. He's also done his own shows at Nectar's and Radio Bean, as well as at the Punchline in Atlanta, Georgia. When he's not making jokes, he's a wannabe politician, campaigning for Steve Hintgen's seat in the Vermont State House. Now that's funny. DADDY: Well, my mom is crazy. I don't make anything up. You know when a crazy person tells you something, I think they must really believe it. So I do a lot of visuals. I say all right, let's visualize that. Let's imagine me at the school. I'm looking like a drug dealer. And I'm selling Tupperware. To make a set list, I think OK what would be a good story to go with that? Do I have enough material? Because I have to hang out with my mother to get the material,...
This just in: The men of the square table, in an extraordinary decision, have expanded their jurisdiction beyond simply dictating Man Law to now include Politician Law, or Pol Law, for short. We obtained a copy of the first Pol Law issued by this august group. It states: A politician running against John Gard shall be free to make politically incorrect jokes about Indians without fear of harsh reprisal from Wisconsin tribes.
(1948/1996/1939) (Shown on DVD): A night spent in jazz clubs and vaudeville halls, the latest AVV makes as its centerpiece Robert Altman's virtually ignored Kansas City, a '30s-era panorama whose mellow vibe didn't help the director rebound after the disaster that was Ready to Wear. It's true the film's numerous threads never quite coalesce, but at least that's by design. Rather than do the usual spread deal, Altman upends his own shtick, separating the threads-which involve the intractable relationship among crime, politics, racial relations and music-into their own self-contained stories. It's an interesting move, even if it winds up stressing why Altman's stylistic gimmick so suits him. The film is only as good as its partitioned-off sections, which range from the almost criminally u...
... Leigh kidnaps Miranda Richardson's politician's wife-to among his most absorbing, as whenever Al... nursing a drink, Holliday laughs and cracks jokes through his turbulent life story. When he finally ...
My dad was a German immigrant who loved to tell jokes that sometimes got lost in translation. One of his favorites was about a politician in the "old country" who solicited votes by promising to build bridges. Not Barack Obama's figurative kind, but literal infrastructure - iron and steel spans. One day a local constituent protested: "But we don't even have a river." Without missing a beat, the politician responded, "Well, then I'll build you one of those, too." Growing up, I always thought the story was kind of corny or that it must have been funnier in the original language, but my dad always laughed harder than anyone when he told it. His hoots covered a multitude of sins in the comedy shtick.
The holiday season is a "kind, forgiving, charitable, rather pleasant time," said Charles Dickens in "A Christmas Carol." Recent events in national and local politics are testing Americans' and Utahns' willingness to forgive the peccadilloes of leaders and candidates. At the risk of being labeled Scrooges, we explore the "forgiveness factor" in politics. GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain ended his campaign after accusations of sexual harassment and an extramarital affair. Conservative voters remain upset with Mitt Romney for decade-old "flip flops." Yet Newt Gingrich is topping the polls because voters are forgiving his adulterous past and numerous policy reversals. Why the inconsistency?
... illustrating in a clear manner how a politician should NOT respond to controversy. If the pizza ma... high-profile wife and intense late night TV jokes. A lesser politician would have been destroyed. Cl...
The unexpected death of former educator and local Democratic politician Rick Borries at age 66 hit Ed Ziemer like a heavy, leaden blow to the gut. Ziemer, director of the city's Department of Transportation and Services, had been close to Borries since they were grade schoolers at St. Benedict Cathedral School. The pair stayed fast friends at Memorial High School and throughout adulthood, spending countless hours golfing, ice skating and playing practical jokes
Ohio voters restored the bargaining rights of public employees, and in Mississippi they rejected an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at conception. Supporters of the Mississippi measure had hoped to use it to mount a legal attack on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion. In Kentucky, a Democratic governor won another term Tuesday, and Mississippi voters kept their governor's office in GOP hands - decisions that suggested many Americans were not ready to abandon incumbent parties, despite the nation's economic woes.
...And comic-turned-politician Robert Farmer lost his bid to become Kentucky's ag...Farmer told hillbilly jokes that upset some people, and he had no farming expe...
It's the dream of every small town to have an attraction that will bring regional traffic and cash to its coffers. Interstate travelers are a bonus, and international visitors are little more than a pipedream for most chambers of commerce. Punxsutawney has hit this marketing trifecta.
... issue -- " I guess that's just like a politician," he jokes -- but says he would not be opposed to ...
In the fall of 1973, in his book Economics and the Public Purpose, (in describing which I am following [Richard Parker]'s biography), Galbraith shocked the conventional wisdom with what in a different history could have become the second New Deal, carrying forward the spirit and thought of the 30 "Young Turks" in the U.S. House in the 1930s, who were led by Maury Maverick of San Antonio. Galbraith advocated five kinds of limited socialism that variously were (and are) already safely and beneficially in use in Western Europe and Japan: "public service socialism," direct public authority over health care, transportation, and housing; "defense socialism," making military contractors publicly-owned enterprises to curb wasteful weapons systems and military adventurism; "technostructure socia...
...He was as essentially a politician as he was a professor. One reason I was enthusiast... the wry and self-mocking, always original jokes with which he opened his speeches. Many decades la...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Votes on immigration, union rights and President Obama's health care law could hold hints of the American public's mindset, four years into an economic downturn and one year from the presidential election. Today's elections also include governors' races in Mississippi and Kentucky that will point to political prospects for 2012, when an additional 10 governorships will be contested. In both states, the governors' offices are expected to stay in the hands of incumbent parties, perhaps indicating that voters aren't ready to abandon their loyalties.
...* In Kentucky, comic-turned-politician Robert Farmer upset local residents with some hilllbilly jokes, but he could ride name recognition to a new job a...
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