Primer Spoof With Yiddish Faces Suit
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The publishing company that owns the copyright to the Dick and Jane reading primers has filed a lawsuit over the humor book "Yiddish With Dick and Jane."
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A jaunty assortment of parlor magicianâs tricks ornament this fast and funny production. But the real magic happens when the bad actors take over.
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Like moviegoing masses around the world, Israelis have crowded theaters to watch the hit spoof "Borat." But they are laughing for another reason: They actually understand what the anti-Semitic, misogynist Kazakh journalist is saying.
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New Bagle worm poses as 'joke' message
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The documentary âFired!" contains slivers of shtick that play more as diverting filler than prime comedy material.
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One angry word begets another, and one Fool tries to sort out who's closer to the truth.
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Search giant prepares to challenge company's use of "JewTube" name on Jewish-oriented video site.
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Eric Bauman made big bucks posting other people's gross-out videos to his website. Now the geeks whose clips he swiped on the way up are trying to knock him down. By David Kushner from Wired magazine.
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A 'spoof' online game site tests the adage that no publicity is bad publicity
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Just when it seemed Michael Richards was about to leave the most troubling incident of his career behind, his publicist is having to explain how the comic could consider himself to be Jewish.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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An Arab-American comedy troupe tries to get the Middle East laughing over some of the things it often fights about
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese &#151; Yiddish, actually &#151; for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating &#151; "The New York City Museum of Complaint" &#151; that were written over centuries to the mayor of a city famed for denizens who whine in public.
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A proposal to define the countryâs national identity has been met with shrugs, scorn and British humor.
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As "The Little Dog Laughed" and "Borat" have lately shown, old-school mockery of homosexuality, refitted for a new, post-politically-correct era, is making a comeback.
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A start-up began offering a technology Wednesday that can spoof a caller ID number, potentially opening the door to telemarketing calls that seem to be coming from a relative or a different company.