“We saw this guy acting entirely bizarre, and we decided we had to have him in our circus,” the proprietor said. “It’s hard to find a sideshow attraction with that much potential.”
By Andy Borowitz
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Giuliani Claims He Has Evidence Linking Biden to Obama
“This isn’t a case of the two men sharing an occasional phone call or meeting,” the former New York mayor charged. “For eight years, they were basically joined at the hip.”
By Andy Borowitz
Satire from The Borowitz Report
nato Leaders Challenge Trump to Spell nato
Afer handing Trump a pencil and a yellow legal pad, Angela Merkel watched as the President struggled to spell the word correctly, crumpling page after page in the effort.
By Andy Borowitz
More Humor from The New Yorker
Daily Shouts
This Poem’s Gonna Be a Hit!
It’s like the Iliad knocked up the Odyssey and they had a kid that wasn’t about war but was still a great poem.
By Evan Waite and River Clegg
Daily Shouts
Comedy = Tragedy + Time, and Other Equations
P.C. culture = the only reason a man might bomb on stage night after night, year after year.
By Riane Konc
Daily Shouts
Some Other Trees in the Garden of Eden
The Peach Tree of False Confidence, the Persimmon Tree of Ironic Detachment, and other arboreal varieties.
By Lily Feinn
Back to the Real News . . .
Daily Comment
Amid the Impeachment Inquiry, a Bad Day for Facts
The procedures and norms that govern two of the most serious processes carried out by government—impeaching a President and reviewing a federal investigation—were shredded.
By David Rohde
Puzzles and Games Dept.
Quiz: How Much of the Decade Do You Actually Remember?
Sift through the cultural rubble of the past ten years, and see if any of it looks familiar.
By The New Yorker
2019 in Review
The Best Television of 2019
From Best Dressed to Most Likely to Succeed, the superlative TV series, sketches, personalities, and video art—and notable runners-up—of the past year.
By Troy Patterson
Profiles
How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to a strange new world: the present.
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