Humor

2009

• Jon Stewart's Brilliant Beck Parody

  The Daily Show

  Jon Stweart says there's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs.

• 'U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid'

  Calvin Trillin

  The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.

• China Policy

  Calvin Trillin

  Going along when China's rotten...

• The Return of 'The Rock' Obama

  Saturday Night Live

  President Obama gets really tough with Senators McConnell, Baucus and Snowe in this Incredible Hulk-inspired sketch.

• Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee

  Calvin Trillin

  They have some justifying to do.

• What Whoopi Goldberg ('Not a Rape-Rape'), Harvey Weinstein ('So-Called Crime') et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski

  Calvin Trillin

  He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!

• Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi's Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half

  Calvin Trillin

  This Muammar is truly loony.

• Jon Stewart Defends Kids From the GOP

  The Daily Show

  Stewart takes on the crazy conspiracy theories of the right, starting with the recent Fox News coverage of ACORN.

• Glenn Beck's Madness Mocked in Prime-Time

  Saturday Night Live

  The inevitable Glenn Beck impression makes its debut, complete with a trembling voice, blatant factual inaccuracies and Hitler salutes.

• A Grand Jury Investigates John Edwards

  Calvin Trillin

  He's got some explaining to do.

• PSA Parody: Protect Insurance Companies

  Funny or Die

  Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and other popular entertainers speak out in defense of greedy health insurance execs backed by an ominous soundtrack.

• Lewis Black Takes on Angry Outbursts

  The Daily Show

  Has 2009 been the year of the angry outburst? Lewis Black breaks down recent bad behavior from Joe Wilson, Kanye West and Serena Williams as only he can.

• Anatomy of Wilson's 'You Lie' Outburst

  Saturday Night Live

  What if all the GOP congressmen were supposed to yell 'you lie' but changed their minds at the last minute while Joe Wilson was in the bathroom?

• A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

  Calvin Trillin

  Ode to a bailout.

• Stewart Slams Beck, Tea Party Protesters

  The Daily Show

  Jon Stewart reveals the not-so-subtle hypocrisy of Fox News' laudatory coverage of the so-called '9-12 movement' and tea party events held in the nation's capital.

• The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women

  Calvin Trillin

  This just in...

• Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics

  Calvin Trillin

  Again, Dick says that torture's good.