IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

JOE FRANKLIN SHOULD KISS HER FEET



Sam Anderson on Sarah Silverman in THE ARISTOCRATS: “Silverman was the only comic in the film who met the challenge of the joke: She pushed it too far…”




LENNON LIFE




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SAFE AS MILK



Alex Beam’s piece on
samizdat includes one of my favorite George Meyer jokes, “They can kill the Kennedys. Why can’t they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?” A joke that could only have been written in Boulder. Somehow it’s a relief to learn that while Tina Brown commissioned that Meyer profile from David Owen, she killed it by dubbing the Simpsons “passé”…. As far as I know, nobody has reprinted or even posted Tom Carson’s crowning achievement in this vein, which Kit Rachlis actually published at the LA WEEKLY: the George Bush (41) as dog-fucker profile during the Republican convention of 1992. Track that down, make sure you tell me about it…




LET’S GET LOST


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