Archive for December, 2008

THE GREAT MAD-OFF

Humor Piece: Madoff Was a Friend by Sarah Walker

ChanukahOVERHEARD

“Most Texans think Chanukah is some sort of duck call.” — Richard Lewis

DAILY PRESENTS

TV Clip: The Daily’s Show’s Best Chanukah Moments

NOT SO FUNUKKAH

by shap on December 22, 2008. [Stand Up]

Standup Clip: Lewis Black on Chanukah vs. Christmas (from Comedy Central Presents)

THE SPIRIT OF OY!

Web Video: All I Want For Christmas Is… Jews (by Hot Box Comedy)

SHOEGATE

TV Clip: Keith Olbermann, Joel McHale, and the Bush Shoe Fiasco (from The Countdown)

JimMendrinosDrinking

“You always dread a phone call the morning after you get too drunk. Because nobody ever calls you up to tell you something good you did when you were drunk. Nobody’s ever called me and said, Jim, you got shitfaced last night and painted the orphanage.”

–comic Jim Mendrinos

STANDING UP TO HALLMARK

Standup Clip: Jim Gaffigan: Holiday Traditions (from FunnyorDie.com)

BINGING NOSTALGIC

Humor Piece: Bush’s Lame Duck Christmas Dinners: The White House Menus (by David Friend and David Moore)

ArjBarkerRainForestOVERHEARD

“I’ve had trouble sleeping since I moved to New York, so I bought a “Sounds of the Rainforest” CD. Which, of course, these days is just the sound of chainsaws and gibbons screaming as they die.”

Arj Barker, The Laugh Lounge