Feb 12 Comedy legend Sid Caesar dies at 91 By Ellen Rolfes Before there was Saturday Night Live, there was "Your Show of Shows," and Sid Caesar was its featured star. With writers such as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Carl Reiner, Caesar had the best material to entertain American television audiences… Continue reading
Feb 10 Parody coffee shop ‘Dumb Starbucks’ is a prank By Colleen Shalby A coffee shop using the Starbucks logo and has managed to stay open in Los Angeles for three days before getting shut down. Continue reading
Dec 01 WATCH: Ron Burgundy reads the news Credit: Paramount Pictures If you're in Bismarck or Dickinson, North Dakota, you may have tuned into local CBS affiliate, KXNews, last night for the local goings-on in the central and western regions of the state. Continue reading
Dec 01 Ron Burgundy guest anchors at North Dakota news station Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy, second from left, co-anchored the news with KXNews' Amber Schatz, second from right. Meteorologist Jared Piepenburg, right, and sports anchor Jon Schaeffer, left, rounded out the newscast. Photo from KXNews video Viewers in western North… Continue reading
Nov 25 Watch Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau pokes fun of American politics in a new medium Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau pokes fun of American politics in a new medium… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Comic Legend Jonathan Winters Dies at 87 Pioneering comic Jonathan Winters brought his own brand of wild, improvisational stand-up to television in the 1950s, and continued to perform for nearly five decades. Winters died Thursday at the age of 87. Jeffrey Brown remembers the comedian with a… Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch D.C.’s Funniest Celebrity: More Economics Comedy Routines D.C.’s Funniest Celebrity: More Economics Comedy Routines… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch Economics Comedy in Beijing: Part Two Standup economist Yoram Bauman does economic jokes in front of a Chinese audience. Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch China and the U.S., Economically: Like Teenagers Having Sex Yoram Bauman tests just how far you can apply the First Amendment in modern-day China. Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Chinese Housing Bubble: A Troubling Update from Beijing Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman explores the possibility of a Beijing housing bubble. Continue watching