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Current Satire and Commentary

• Bongo News
• Borowitz Report
• McSweeney’s
• The Onion
• MAD spoof of The Onion
• Political Irony – Humor and Hypocrisy From the World of Politics
• Private Eye (UK)
• The Washington Fancy

Funny Stuff

• The Big Waste of Space
• BlowTheDotOutYourAss.com
• Chickenhead – warped humour from John A Wooden of MAXIM Magazine
• Colonblow – as seen on SNL
• The Dialectizer– Allows you to convert English text to “Swedish Chef”, “Redneck”, “Elmer Fudd”, and more…
• Doug Anderson’s Web Parody
  

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• dumbentia – the parody place – Chris Condon, Parody God – brilliant poster parodies in pdf
• Goyk.com – videos, sound clips, jokes
• Liebography
• Joe & Lorie’s Comedy-O-Rama
• Laughnet
• Mark’s Very Large National Lampoon Site – Golden Age of National Lampoon Magazine (1970-1975)
• Museum of Quackery
• Rinkworks – includes Book-A-Minute, Movie-A-Minute, and more.
• Scant Sanity – check out “Waste Time” and see if you’re offended!
• 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library
• Welcome to Glen Lachart – kind of a Scottish Onion?

People

• FrankenWeb – The Al Franken Web Page

Minnesota Humour (Humor?)

I was raised in St Boniface, Manitoba (now officially part of Winnipeg), some 65 miles north of Minnesota. My dad’s sister, Caroline, and her husband Paul, moved to Thief River Falls MN in the 1950s. Growing up, we went to TRF dozens of times. Now three of my cousins and their families live in metro Minneapolis. There you have my Minnesota connections. They’re not too bad, you betcha, oh fer dumb…
• How to Talk Minnesotan
• You Might Be A Minnesotan If…

Firesign Theatre, Stan Freberg, Jean Shepherd

• LodesTone Media – Firesign Theatre products available here
• Firesign Theatre
  • Firesign Theatre FAQ
  • Planet Proctor – Phil Proctor of FS
  • Radio Free Oz – Peter Bergman of FS
  • The Firesign Theater’s “I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus” Commentary
  • Firezine – Official Digital Magazine of the Firesign Theatre
  • It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here
• Stan Freberg “The World’s Most Official Unofficial Stan Freberg Page”
• FLICK LIVES! – The Jean Shepherd Web Site – the man who created the characters Ralph, Randy, Mom and The Old Man – if you’ve seen the Movies “A Christmas Story” or “My Summer Story”, then you’ve seen the work of Jean Shepherd.

• Jean Shepherd Archive

Cartoon, Funny Pages and Animation

• Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County
• Cartoonbank.com – from the New Yorker
• Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists’ Index
• For Better or For Worse
  

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• Comics.com – United Features
• uComics – daily newspaper and editorial comics

Animation

• Chuck Jones Official Site
• In Appreciation of Chuck Jones – written by Kevin McCorry
• >Tribute to Chuck Jones – by the top cartoonists
• The Unofficial Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page
• Warner Bros Cartoons Filmography and Title Card Gallery
• Coal Black and De Sebben Swarfs – absolute classic WB cartoon, no longer shown anywhere.
• Looney Tunes Lyrics
• Hidden Gags in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons
• The Big Cartoon Database
• Stick Figure Death Theatre
• Tripping the Rift
• Rustboy