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I Was the Wedding Planner for the Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” Ceremony and Reception

How We’re Beating the Heat

Wednesday, 1:35 P.M. (Excerpt from Slouchers)

Netflix Documentaries We Watched While Under Quarantine

Date Ideas for a Post-Quarantine World

Events We Are Actually Glad Were Cancelled

Saw You On the Q Train

Introducing Yelp for Sex Positions

Ikea Instructions

Like It or Unfriend It

My Name Is Smokey

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NPR FAN FICTION: Escape from the Zombies in the Village by the Potomac

The Donald Trump Presidential Library

Jennifer Benson’s UFO Abductee Blog

Justin Bieber’s Life for the Next 35 Years!

Just a Friendly Robocall

Bootleg Mike’s “Rare-Shit Forgotten Video Boots”!

2012 Summer Music Festival Guide!

Condo President-for-Life

Occupy the North Pole: Stand Athwart the Jolly One Percent!

It Is Party Time at Club Seacrets!

Memorable Senior Pranks

Things a Man MUST Do Before the Age of 30!

WHERE’S SKITTLES?!!!

Dear Family and Estate of John Updike

Famous Philosophers and How They Were First Discovered

Geoff Sarkin is Using Twitter!

Dear Mr. Don DeLillo

Dear Mr. Thomas Pynchon

My Parents, Enid and Sal, Used to Be Famous Porn Stars

A Sixteenth-Century Shakespearean Actor Suffers a Meltdown at London’s Globe Theatre

Jimmy Jam Johnson, the Classic-Rock DJ Sufferin’ a Nervous Breakdown!

119 Ways to Survive a Recession

When Making Love to Me: What Every Woman Needs to Know

Signs Your College is Not Very Prestigious

Rules for My Cuddle Party

Great Works of Literature as Text Messages

Bootleg Mike’s “Forgotten Boots”

147 Signs You’re in the Wrong Relationship

Physical-Therapy Exercises for Other Injurious Situations

109 Things Not to Say at a Job Interview

125 Reasons We Can’t Sleep

130 Secret-Santa Gifts to Avoid

102 Self-Help Books You Can Do Without

100 Icebreakers to Avoid

142 Reasons You’re Still Single

Funny Letters from Summer Camp and Their Not-So-Funny Responses

Wrong Exit: 117 Worst Places to Die

The Top 10 Best Sellers of 2027

The 2008 American Auto Show

Kama Sutra: The Corrections

New Emoticons for 2007

Two Previously Known and Fifteen Brand-New Closing Signatures, to be Inserted at the End of Your Love Letters For Valentine’s or Any Other Day

A Leaflet Dropped Over Amy Weller’s House

Sex-A-Day Positions

“Rockin’ It, Frat-Party Style!” A Short Story Geared to College Students, Written by a Thirty-Something Author

A Web Log or “Blog” Started in an Attempt for Me, Gary Kimball, To Get Closer to My Fifteen-Year-Old Son, Marcus

Better in Theory . . .

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Have You Heard The One About President Bush?

21 Lists

Outsourcing My Love

The Three Laws of Robotics According to Isaac Asimov, Plus Twenty-Four According to Me

74 Things That Aren’t “Better Than Nothing”

Jesus’ Bar Mitzvah

Game Show Catchphrases That Never Quite Caught On

Today’s Most Funniest Movie Bloopers

THE ZAPRUDER FILM: THE NOVELIZATION

Loved the Following Jokes And Thought You’d Love Them As Well! Pass Them On!

Community College Buddha Master

Everyday Tantric-Sex Positions

Short Monologues for the Struggling Actor

Krazy Kris!

Happiness Is . . .

Things a Man Should Never Do Past the Age of 30

Remember When? A Collection of 1980s References Without Context or Meaning

Article Found in the Handbill for “Let’s Combat Hunger! A Fashion Industry Charity Soiree,” February 21, 2006, Los Angeles, California

My Family Home Movie (Starring Janeane Garofalo)

Personalized Stories for Adults

HI, EVERYBODY!!! A Paid Advertisement from Your Good Friend “Wild Child Tony”

Note For The Cat Sitter

The On-Going, Insanely Exciting Adventures of the Apple Valley High Gang (Co-Starring Tobi, the Wondrous Sleuth Dog) Volume 1 (of 36): Free Mumia! The On-Going, Insanely Exciting Adventures of the Apple Valley High Gang (Co-Starring Tobi, the Wondrous Sleuth Dog) Volume 1 (of 36): Free Mumia!

Scared Straight: The Home Detention Speech

Rejection Fantasies

Today, June 17th, is “You Day”! Do Something Utterly Self-Indulgent (“Just For You!”)

The Grand Master of Slime

Kevin Nealon Is Hiking and Laughing and Drawing

Why My Favorite Character in The Breakfast Club Is the Janitor

Mike Judge’s Secret Art of Satire

‘We Weren’t Concerned With Making Anyone But Ourselves Laugh’ Monty Python’s Terry Jones on how the legendary group’s work was almost lost to history.

A Comedy Education From Late Legend Buck Henry

John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”

Bruce Jay Friedman: An Interview

Justine Bateman Has Some Thoughts on the Fame Cycle… and Geoffrey Owens Working at Trader Joe’s

O.C.D. in N.Y.C.

Bill Hader and Fred Armisen’s Fake Yacht Rock Band Just Got a Real Music Video

David Spade on Why He Turned Down the Chance to Replace Letterman

The Truth: The Redemption of The Game Author Neil Strauss

Tom Scharpling Interview: ‘The Best Show,’ Death, Comedy And Radio (Not Necessarily In That Order)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 Concept Album and 1973 Film)

The Colbert Report’s First Head Writer Remembers the Show’s Early Days and the Correspondents’ Dinner

18 Things You Learn After Interviewing 80 or So Comedy Writers

Screwed In Times Square With Josh Alan Friedman

Everything’s Turning Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals

Book Review: Patton Oswalt’s Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Canned Laughter: A History Reconstructed – An Interview with Ben Glenn II, Television Historian

Quigley R. Gomez, The Idiot Savant of Stand-Up: An Oral History

Over the Edge: An Oral History

Q&A: Tim and Eric

Q&A: Steve Cohen, “The Millionaires’ Magician”

Q&A: Is Blues Music on the Verge of Extinction?

A Spoonful of Mojo to Go: A Primer on Early Blues

Yarmulkes on Goyim

Less is Best, Mr. Nabokov

Ladies and Gentlemen, Paul Lynde!

Blood, Honor & Three Credits

Da Elliott Code:
An Interview with Chris Elliott

The Squid Kid:
An Interview with Noah Baumbach

ROBIN WILLIAMS: Improvising For His Life

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