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Lisa Stewart

YouTube - Red Eye Destroys Keith Olbermann and his Special Comment! - 6 views

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    Fox TV news comedy that has a similar format to The Daily Show. It's interesting to see which of the two shows you find more funny, and what that says about your enthymemes, especially your suppressed premises. (Thanks to Michael Sylvester for identifying this.)
Lara Cowell

How a Portuguese-to-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation - Atlas Obscura - 0 views

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    English as She Is Spoke is a charming 19th century (1884) phrasebook created by a Portuguese gentleman, Pedro Carolino, who only wanted to help teach the English language to his peers, but instead created a literary disaster that became a linguistic phenomenon. Check out the digital scan of the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/english-as-she-is-spoke-1884
Lisa Stewart

YouTube - A Bit of Fry and Laurie...Tricky Linguistics - 1 views

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    parody of linguists
Nicholas Luna

Stand Up Comedy Robin Williams - 1 views

shared by Nicholas Luna on 02 Dec 10 - No Cached
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    Some paraprosdokian humor, so listen and see if you can't hear it!
Lara Cowell

Love Bigly: If the President wrote Valentines - 1 views

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    This interactive generator creates Trump-style Valentines. A sample: -Let's #MAGA: Make Amore Great Again. -All your other suitors? Total lightweights. We're classy, classy people. -It's a fact: There's no alternative to you.
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