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  • July 2008

    • VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Jul 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT

      VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker

      Vanity Fair has taken a jab at the New Yorker , posting a spoof of the magazine’s controversial Barack Obama cover on its website. VF ’s "cover" shows a doddering John McCain gripping a walker and fist-bumping his wife, Cindy, who cradles a pile of prescription drugs. In the background, the Constitution burns in the fireplace under a portrait of President Bush. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Michelle Obama  • Vanity Fair  • satire  • New Yorker magazine

    • Obama Cover Misses Point of Satire

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 20, 08 6:28 PM CDT

      Obama Cover Misses Point of Satire

      The now-infamous New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim extremists rankled readers because it is not satire, Lee Siegel argues in the New York Times . Satire tackles "social rottenness once it has become a visible and established part of life," writes Siegel. But the New Yorker gave mainstream credence to a notion of the lunatic fringe. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Michelle Obama  • satire  • New Yorker magazine

    • Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap

      newser  |  Salon  |  Jul 15, 08 1:28 PM CDT

      Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap

      Many writers are scratching their heads at the incensed reactions provoked by the New Yorker ’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. Here’s some rebuttal: Liberals “have come to regard all images or texts that contain negative stereotypes as too politically dangerous to run,” Gary Kamiya writes in Salon. “Not a single work of satire could ever pass this paranoid test” in which merely acknowledging racism “is to be racist.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • racism  • satire  • cartoon  • New Yorker magazine

    • Obama Camp Rips New Yorker Caricature

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jul 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      Obama Camp Rips New Yorker Caricature

      Barack Obama's campaign has ripped an "offensive" New Yorker cover illustration depicting the candidate in a turban, fist-bumping his afro-sporting, AK-47-toting wife, Politico reports. The cover, intended by the magazine to lampoon the cartoonish image of Obama propagated by some of his right-wing critics, has sparked a flurry of denunciations. More »

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      Barack Obama  • satire  • New Yorker magazine  • turbans

  • June 2008

    • Choose Your Own Adventure, This American Life Style

      newser  |  Radar  |  Jun 29, 08 8:50 AM CDT

      Choose Your Own Adventure, This American Life Style

      This American Life , providing "a valuable census of liberal America's cultural consciousness since 1996," comes in for a little ribbing from Walker Boyd in Radar . Boyd  spoofs Ira Glass's radio and TV narratives with a Mad Libs-type story generator. Now "your dreams of Ira narrating some touching yet inoffensive slice of your middle- to upper-class existence can become a reality," he writes. Some slices thereof: More »

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      satire  • Ira Glass  • This American Life

    • Is Franken Too Vulgar for Politics?

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 18, 08 6:51 AM CDT

      Is Franken Too Vulgar for Politics?

      Al Franken was cracking tasteless jokes for decades before entering politics, but it may be his opponent in the Minnesota Senate race who'll be accused of coarsening debate if he dares to brings them up, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post . Franken calls his work "provocative, touching, and funny" satire—but Gerson doesn't think it's worthy of the name. More »

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      Senate  • comedy  • Minnesota  • satire  • Al Franken  • Norm Coleman

  • May 2008

    • SNL Launches Political Satire Site

      newser  |  Broadcasting & Cable  |  May 9, 08 8:09 PM CDT

      SNL Launches Political Satire Site

      Saturday Night Live has unveiled a new website to showcase the program’s political humor, Broadcasting and Cable reports. Visitors can check out clips of the show’s political sketches and candidate appearances at http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/politics, or vote for their favorite president/candidate impersonator—dating back from Dana Carvey's elder Bush to Phil Hartman's Reagan.  More »

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      television  • politics  • Saturday Night Live  • satire  • humor

    • Study: Viewers Get News From Daily Show... Not

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 9, 08 9:03 AM CDT

      Study: Viewers Get News From Daily Show... Not

      Claims that young people get more news from Jon Stewart's Daily Show than from traditional sources are bunk, a journalism think-tank has concluded after examining a year's worth of episodes. The Project for Excellence in Journalism found that while the comedy show had much of the same content as new shows, the satire would sail over the heads of anybody not already up-to-date on current affairs. More »

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      journalism  • news  • Jon Stewart  • satire  • Daily Show  • Hardball

  • March 2008
  • January 2008

    • Ferrell to Stump This Fall, But Only Onstage

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jan 19, 08 10:45 AM CST

      Ferrell to Stump This Fall, But Only Onstage

      Will Ferrell is working on a one-man show that could hit Broadway this fall, and he may focus the routine on an interactive bit starring a mock presidential candidate, Politico reports. The onetime "Saturday Night Live" George Bush doppelganger plans to incorporate a stump speech, question-and-answer session, and political ads into his script. More »

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      theater  • Broadway  • satire  • Will Ferrell  • fringe candidates

  • September 2007

    • Paris Sues Hallmark Over Card

      newser  |  CNN  |  Sep 8, 07 6:00 PM CDT

      Paris Sues Hallmark Over Card

      Perhaps losing her cool, Paris Hilton is suing Hallmark for swiping her registered 'that's hot' catchphrase and plopping it, along with her face and name, on a greeting card. The heiress is demanding at least $100,000 in damages for the heist without her consent, CNNMoney reports, but Hallmark says the $2.49 card is a legal parody of a public figure. More »

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      lawsuit  • Paris Hilton  • satire  • trademark

    • Aussie Comics Penetrate Tight Sydney Security

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Sep 6, 07 2:00 PM CDT

      Aussie Comics Penetrate Tight Sydney Security

      Only one was dressed as Osama bin Laden, but all 11 eleven members of an Australian comedy troupe were arrested in Sydney today after they posed as a Canadian delegation and drove through two security checkpoints near President Bush’s hotel. The stunt was an embarrassment to Sydney police, who have tightened security drastically for the APEC summit, the AP reports. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Australia  • Canada  • Osama bin Laden  • Asia  • satire  • Sydney  • comics

  • August 2007

    • Fake Steve Jobs Blogger Outed

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Aug 6, 07 6:12 AM CDT

      Fake Steve Jobs Blogger Outed

      The New York Times has tracked down the identity of the mystery writer behind a popular satirical site posing as the personal blog of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The musings of "Fake Steve" have lampooned Silicon Valley, industry bigwigs and Jobs himself. “I’m stunned that it’s taken this long," said blog mastermind Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes. More »

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      Apple  • Steve Jobs  • blog  • satire

  • May 2007

    • Satire Finds a Stage in Baghdad

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 21, 07 3:41 PM CDT

      Satire Finds a Stage in Baghdad

      At least someone is laughing: At Iraq's National Theater a one-act play called "The Intensive Care Unit" satirizes the country's bombed-out chaos. The prevailing mood, the Washington Post reports, is jovial and non-sectarian; performances are all matinees because no one dares venture out at night. More »

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      Iraq  • actor  • censorship  • theater  • satire  • play

  • April 2007

    • Dylan, Dr.Seuss Can't Mix

      newser  |  Salon  |  Apr 13, 07 11:57 AM CDT

      Dylan, Dr.Seuss Can't Mix

      Dr. Seuss's estate has knocked down a website by artist/jokerman Kevin Ryan, featuring the fantasist's verses set to fake Bob Dylan music. The loss of the brilliant mash-up prompts Salon 's Dan Brekke to explore how the times are a' changin' for copyright law, particularly in the murky and amorphous area of parody. More »

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      satire  • intellectual property  • Bob Dylan  • copyright law  • Dr. Seuss  • parody

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