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You need a laugh? I know you do...
The new issue of The American Bystander is here! The finest satire, weirdest cartoons and sharpest writing this side of a heavenly Algonquin Table. Get a quick pdf or the sumptuous paper copy today!
online.americanbystander.org/issue-31/
The new issue of The American Bystander is here! The finest satire, weirdest cartoons and sharpest writing this side of a heavenly Algonquin Table. Get a quick pdf or the sumptuous paper copy today!
online.americanbystander.org/issue-31/
Issue #31
The Last Great Humor Magazine
online.americanbystander.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You need a laugh? I know you do...
The new issue of The American Bystander is here! The finest satire, weirdest cartoons and sharpest writing this side of a heavenly Algonquin Table. Get a quick pdf or the sumptuous paper copy today!
online.americanbystander.org/issue-31/
The new issue of The American Bystander is here! The finest satire, weirdest cartoons and sharpest writing this side of a heavenly Algonquin Table. Get a quick pdf or the sumptuous paper copy today!
online.americanbystander.org/issue-31/
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“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” is the best wall of sound production, because it doesn’t go all out during the verses but when it does, wow. The piano hammering its way to the front of the mix at the end? Sometimes more is more.
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love on Apple Music
Song · 1963 · Duration 2:50
music.apple.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” is the best wall of sound production, because it doesn’t go all out during the verses but when it does, wow. The piano hammering its way to the front of the mix at the end? Sometimes more is more.
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Westminster Colorado's mayoral race may say more than just how one city voted. David DeMott, linked to the Three Percenters, lost in a city with a long conservative history. The result raises a broader question about whether voters are rejecting far-right movements.
tinyurl.com/3msysehb
tinyurl.com/3msysehb
Westminster mayoral race highlights broader debate on extremism
What are recent Colorado election results revealing about how voters are responding to candidates linked to far-right extremism.
yellowscene.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Westminster Colorado's mayoral race may say more than just how one city voted. David DeMott, linked to the Three Percenters, lost in a city with a long conservative history. The result raises a broader question about whether voters are rejecting far-right movements.
tinyurl.com/3msysehb
tinyurl.com/3msysehb
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I said roughly ten percent of the things I could have said about Rob Reiner.
Remembering Rob Reiner, who made movies for people who love them
The movies Reiner directed, from A Few Good Men to The Princess Bride, weren't just good — they were people's favorites, the types of films people come back to again and again.
www.npr.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I said roughly ten percent of the things I could have said about Rob Reiner.
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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Walt Disney's 🇺🇲 American animated black & white short film "STEAMBOAT WILLIE" one of the first cartoons with sound and notable for being the official debut of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, premiered at Universal's Colony Theatre in New York City #OnThisDay in 1928
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Walt Disney's 🇺🇲 American animated black & white short film "STEAMBOAT WILLIE" one of the first cartoons with sound and notable for being the official debut of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, premiered at Universal's Colony Theatre in New York City #OnThisDay in 1928
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RIP Lenny Wilkens. Coach during the era that turned me and all my friends into lifelong cavs super-fans. He seemed to be both a consummate gentleman and a fierce competitor. Photo from the 1989–1990 Cavaliers Media Guide located in the Cleveland Public Library Sports Center.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
RIP Lenny Wilkens. Coach during the era that turned me and all my friends into lifelong cavs super-fans. He seemed to be both a consummate gentleman and a fierce competitor. Photo from the 1989–1990 Cavaliers Media Guide located in the Cleveland Public Library Sports Center.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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It’s so rare that you can read something and go “No one has ever used that word better than that sentence.” But surely no one has ever used the word “unwittingly” better than the poster for the movie The Day of the Dolphin.
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s so rare that you can read something and go “No one has ever used that word better than that sentence.” But surely no one has ever used the word “unwittingly” better than the poster for the movie The Day of the Dolphin.
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just thinking about the first time i met Dr. Goodall. I was at the Dallas Zoo and ran into her out of the blue. I told her I was a huge fan and I'll never forget her response: "I am not Jane Goodall. I'm not even a woman. Please stop shaking my hand."
that's just how Jane was, incredibly humble.
that's just how Jane was, incredibly humble.
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
just thinking about the first time i met Dr. Goodall. I was at the Dallas Zoo and ran into her out of the blue. I told her I was a huge fan and I'll never forget her response: "I am not Jane Goodall. I'm not even a woman. Please stop shaking my hand."
that's just how Jane was, incredibly humble.
that's just how Jane was, incredibly humble.
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A wild finish to clinch during a roller coaster run.
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A wild finish to clinch during a roller coaster run.
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Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"Noo-nee-noo-nee-noo"
@ani-obsessive.bsky.social has a fantastic post celebrating the indie animation to air on decades of SESAME STREET, typically as educational "ads."
Like any catchy Madison Avenue jingle, they've stayed with us for decades more.
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
@ani-obsessive.bsky.social has a fantastic post celebrating the indie animation to air on decades of SESAME STREET, typically as educational "ads."
Like any catchy Madison Avenue jingle, they've stayed with us for decades more.
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
The Golden Age of 'Sesame Street' Animation
Plus: news.
animationobsessive.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Noo-nee-noo-nee-noo"
@ani-obsessive.bsky.social has a fantastic post celebrating the indie animation to air on decades of SESAME STREET, typically as educational "ads."
Like any catchy Madison Avenue jingle, they've stayed with us for decades more.
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
@ani-obsessive.bsky.social has a fantastic post celebrating the indie animation to air on decades of SESAME STREET, typically as educational "ads."
Like any catchy Madison Avenue jingle, they've stayed with us for decades more.
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
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He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
www.nbcnews.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
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3 GALAXIES CAPTURED FROM ORBIT!!!
YOU CAN SEE THE MILKY WAY AND BOTH MAGELLANIC CLOUDS!! 🌌🌌
yet ANOTHER banger from astronaut don pettit
YOU CAN SEE THE MILKY WAY AND BOTH MAGELLANIC CLOUDS!! 🌌🌌
yet ANOTHER banger from astronaut don pettit
August 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
3 GALAXIES CAPTURED FROM ORBIT!!!
YOU CAN SEE THE MILKY WAY AND BOTH MAGELLANIC CLOUDS!! 🌌🌌
yet ANOTHER banger from astronaut don pettit
YOU CAN SEE THE MILKY WAY AND BOTH MAGELLANIC CLOUDS!! 🌌🌌
yet ANOTHER banger from astronaut don pettit
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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#nw Shaw's Mr. Blue, Shire's brassy '70s DRAGNET score, shadowy Fun City cinematography, overlapping dialogue, an ensemble that looks like America, political/corporate bullshit, the downfall of a nasty cold, & Matthau's face in 1 of the greatest final shots ever in THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
June 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#nw Shaw's Mr. Blue, Shire's brassy '70s DRAGNET score, shadowy Fun City cinematography, overlapping dialogue, an ensemble that looks like America, political/corporate bullshit, the downfall of a nasty cold, & Matthau's face in 1 of the greatest final shots ever in THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
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Marc Maron says in the latest episode of WTF that he's ending the podcast sometime later this year. www.wtfpod.com
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
www.wtfpod.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Marc Maron says in the latest episode of WTF that he's ending the podcast sometime later this year. www.wtfpod.com
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In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I round up great writing by Eric Bressman, Lindsey Smith, Madeline Goetz & @mckayleygourley.bsky.social, and @timplatt.bsky.social!
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A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
by Luke Burns & James Folta A weekly newsletter dedicated to humorous writing and humorous writers. We round up the best short humor pieces and funny articles every week, and have some fun extras ever...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I round up great writing by Eric Bressman, Lindsey Smith, Madeline Goetz & @mckayleygourley.bsky.social, and @timplatt.bsky.social!
Check it out, along with our full archives, and subscribe below 👇
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Pluto TV is once again sponsoring free movie weekends at independent theaters across the country this summer, but this time we are getting an assist from Oscar-winning ANORA director Sean Baker: www.thewrap.com/pluto-tv-fre...
Pluto TV Brings Back Free Movie Weekend to Support Independent Theaters, With Help From Sean Baker | Exclusive
Pluto TV, the free streaming service, is bringing back its free movie weekend program this summer with help from an Oscar-winning indie filmmaker – Sean Baker.
www.thewrap.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Pluto TV is once again sponsoring free movie weekends at independent theaters across the country this summer, but this time we are getting an assist from Oscar-winning ANORA director Sean Baker: www.thewrap.com/pluto-tv-fre...
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The Jim Henson-produced “Numerosity” segments for Sesame Street began airing in the show’s first season. This segment, for the number 9, features Henson in his recurring cameo as the voice of the baker at the end (the baker was a stunt performer), a young Brian Henson, and even Rowlf The Dog.
May 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The Jim Henson-produced “Numerosity” segments for Sesame Street began airing in the show’s first season. This segment, for the number 9, features Henson in his recurring cameo as the voice of the baker at the end (the baker was a stunt performer), a young Brian Henson, and even Rowlf The Dog.
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It's Friday - engage hips, disengage dignity.
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It's Friday - engage hips, disengage dignity.
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Order up! The new episode of The Dana Gould Hour podcast is here! With author Jane Borden (Cults Like Us) and writer Mike Reiss (The Simpsons) & part 2 of our True Tales From Weirdsville essay on the late great David Lynch. Don’t thank me, YOU! Please listen. You’re why we made it!
May 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Order up! The new episode of The Dana Gould Hour podcast is here! With author Jane Borden (Cults Like Us) and writer Mike Reiss (The Simpsons) & part 2 of our True Tales From Weirdsville essay on the late great David Lynch. Don’t thank me, YOU! Please listen. You’re why we made it!