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joke stories: 10 news summaries
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 Chavez Supporters 
 Can't Take Moore's Joke 

Filmmaker's Jimmy Kimmel interview irks Chavistas

Oct 26, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - So Michael Moore and Hugo Chavez walk into a hotel, split a bottle and a half of tequila, and ... what's the punchline? There isn't one for Chavistas torqued over the filmmaker's joke to Jimmy Kimmel that the two partied down at the Venice Film Festival, and Moore's claim that he... More »

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Venezuela • joke • Jimmy Kimmel • Michael Moore • tequila • Hugo Chavez

Palin Ignored Leno's Crack
on Bristol

Comic joked that
John Edwards was babydaddy; no ruckus

Jun 14, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A late-night comic cracking a joke about an adult man getting an underage Palin daughter pregnant? Sounds like perfect fodder for the former vice-presidential candidate's outrage... except there was no outcry, points out Alan Colmes' Liberaland. Back in September, Jay Leno joked that the philandering John Edwards had something to... More »

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John Edwards • pregnancy • joke • Jay Leno • David Letterman • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin

OPINION

 Washington Can't Take a Joke 

Uproar over Sykes' routine shows we take things too literally

May 13, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, Wanda Sykes’ controversial jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner were “over the top,” and they weren’t all that funny, writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. But the uproar they sparked just shows “we take ourselves far too seriously—and literally.” Sykes... More »

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media • Rush Limbaugh • comedy • joke • punditry • Kathleen Parker • President Obama • Wanda Sykes

Education Law in Dire
Need of New Name

Ridicule of No Child Left Behind prompts search

Feb 23, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - No Child Left Behind has become “the most negative brand in America,” says a congressman, and new Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s time for a new name for the law. Educators and jokesters alike are trying their hand at rebranding, the New York Times reports. Proposals... More »

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Bush administration • education • parody • joke • No Child Left Behind • George W. Bush • rebranding • Obama administration

Jokey Bush Applies for, Turns Down Job

Former prez could have had free parking, discount in greeter gig

Feb 22, 09 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - George W Bush made a surprise visit to the hardware store that published a job offer for him in a Dallas paper, joking that he was "looking for a job." The owner provided him with a jacket and nametag ("W"), and the former president spent... More »

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Dallas • joke • hardware • part-time jobs • job • George W. Bush

 Etta 'Just Kidding' 
 About Beyoncé Diss 

'Big-eared' prez 'might not ever like me,' James laments

Feb 6, 09 9:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Etta James was just trying to be funny when she vowed to whup Beyoncé’s ass for singing "her song" at the inauguration, the Daily News reports. “I've always had that comedian kind of attitude,” James said, insisting she only kept up the insults because her... More »

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Barack Obama • music • joke • celebrity • concert • Beyonce • rants • Etta James

  Dirty Jokes of the Ancients Unearthed

Academics discover 3,000-year-old Sumerian fart joke

Aug 1, 08 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Academics studying ancient texts have discovered bawdy jokes that wouldn't be out of place in a Farrelly brothers movie, the Daily Telegraph reports. "What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before?" asks a thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon manuscript.  "... More »

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humor • joke • history • ancient Egypt • ancient customs

McCain: Skip the Bombs, Send Smokes to Iran

Mac jokes about
killing Iranians
with cigarettes

Jul 9, 08 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Told that cigarette exports to Iran rose tenfold under President Bush’s reign, McCain pondered aloud:“Maybe that's a way of killing 'em." When his wife nudged him, he quickly clarified to Reuters: "I meant that as a joke—as a person who hasn't had a cigarette... More »

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Iran • John McCain • presidential campaign • humor • joke • presidential candidates

Letterman, McCain Trade Comic Riffs

GOP hopeful shows up and gives as good as he gets with Dave

Apr 1, 08 8:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Letterman had his routine McCain-is-old shtick interrupted today with comebacks from the Arizona senator himself, the New York Times notes. In the Late Show monologue that airs tonight, Letterman fired off comments such as, “He looks like the guy at the hardware store who makes the keys”—... More »

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John McCain • humor • joke • David Letterman • insult

No Last Laugh for Killer

Con drops the jokes and tells witnesses instead: 'I deserve this'

Jun 27, 07 4:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condemned killer Patrick Knight backed off on his boast that he'd tell a joke before execution, even after receiving over 1300 suggestions for one-liners through mail and a web site. Knight was executed late yesterday for murdering a married couple who lived in the trailer next to his just outside... More »

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death penalty • prison • murder • humor • joke • Patrick Knight • killer

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