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The Cornell Lunatic
''The Cornell Lunatic'' is the college humor magazine at Cornell University, founded on April 1, 1978, by Joey Green. History During Green's two-year tenure as editor, the ''Lunatic'' was a 72-page glossy magazine of satire and parody published once a semester. The ''Lunatic'' staff was responsible for many pranks on campus, including a parody of the 1979 Cornell–Yale Homecoming Football Game program, sold by the ''Lunatic'' staff as the real thing at the football stadium, resulting in Green's arrest and near expulsion from the University. Today, the ''Lunatic'' continues to publish once a semester, and the magazine is distributed on campus for free. Material from the ''Cornell Lunatic'' from 1978 to 1981 was reprinted in the 1982 trade paperback book, ''Hellbent on Insanity,'' a collection of the best college humor, published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston and edited by Green, fellow ''Lunatic'' alumnus Alan Corcoran, and Bruce Handy, former editor of the ''Stanford Chaparr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humor Magazine
A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire and parody, but some also put an emphasis on cartoons, caricature, absurdity, one-liners, witty aphorisms, surrealism, neuroticism, gelotology, emotion-regulating humor, and/or humorous essays. Humor magazines first became popular in the early 19th century with specimens like '' Le Charivari'' (1832–1937) in France, ''Punch'' (1841–2002) in the United Kingdom and '' Vanity Fair'' (1859–1863) in the United States. Contemporary humor magazines Out-of-print humor magazines {, class="sortable wikitable" , - ! width="110", Title ! width="75", Language ! width="45", Country ! width="80", Years published ! width="100", Notable Contributors ! width="50", Frequency ! width="100", Medium ! width="100", Classification , - , '' Army Man'' , English , USA , 1988–1990 , George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jack Handey, Mark O'Donnell , 3 issues , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Funches
Ronald Kyle Funches (born March 12, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born in California, Funches spent his early life in Chicago before relocating to Salem, Oregon, as a teenager. He began his comedy career in Portland, Oregon, at age 23. After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, he began appearing as a guest on several comedy series, including ''@midnight'', '' Mulaney'', and '' Kroll Show''. From 2014 to 2016, Funches starred as a regular on the NBC series '' Undateable'', and in 2015, began performing as a voice actor on such series as '' BoJack Horseman'', '' The Adventures of Puss in Boots'', and ''Adventure Time''. He subsequently performed the voice role of Cooper in the animated film ''Trolls'' (2016). He also had guest-starring roles on a number of television series, including '' Transparent'' (2016), '' Black-ish'' (2017), and reprised the role of Cooper in the ''Trolls'' spin-off series '' Trolls: The Beat Goes On!'' (2018). Beginning in 2019, he began voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gerber (parodist)
Michael Gerber (born June 14, 1969) is best known as the author of the Barry Trotter series, ''Sunday Times'' best-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books. Before becoming a novelist, Gerber contributed humor to ''The Yale Record'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Slate'', NPR and ''Saturday Night Live'', among many other venues. He is an alumnus of Yale and Oak Park River Forest High School. In October 2015, Gerber launched '' The American Bystander'', an all-star print humor quarterly. The magazine was an immediate hit, garnering strongly positive reviews in ''The New York Times'' and ''Newsweek'', which hailed ''Bystander'' as "the last great humor magazine." As of January 2020, ''Bystander'''s thirteen issues have raised over $290,000 via crowdfunding and subscriptions on Patreon. Gerber currently serves as Editor & Publisher, personally handling all aspects of the venture. This auteurist method is somewhat uniqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Bystander
''The American Bystander'' is a quarterly humor magazine in trade paperback book format. Edited and published by Michael Gerber, it features contributions from many notable comedy writers, illustrators and cartoonists. ''The Bystander'' is designed to provide a classic print humor magazine experience similar to that delivered by '' National Lampoon'', ''SPY'', Harold Hayes-era ''Esquire'' and many others in the pre-internet era. Yet according to ''The New York Times'', ''The American Bystander'' "does not just belong to the tradition of defunct magazines like ''The National Lampoon'' and ''Spy''. Its nostalgic, lightly witty style evokes influences that have been dead even longer, like the raconteur Jean Shepherd and the sophisticated stylist Robert Benchley." ''The Bystander'' emerged after several years of planning by Gerber, head writer Brian McConnachie, and Alan Goldberg. Issue #1 was successfully funded on Kickstarter on November 13, 2015. This 146-page softcover book featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Proctor
Philip Proctor (born 1940) is an American actor, comedian and a member of the Firesign Theatre. He has performed voice-over work for video games, films and television series. Career Of the four members of Firesign Theatre, Proctor has had the greatest amount of mainstream exposure as an actor. A boy soprano in his youth, he worked extensively in musical theatre, including numerous juvenile female roles in productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. In his early adult career, he worked in musical theatre on Broadway, the West Coast and in touring productions. During this period Proctor worked with many famous names, including composer Richard Rodgers, and forged important social connections, becoming close friends with notable figures including Henry Jaglom, Brandon deWilde, Peter Fonda and Karen Black. Proctor also appeared occasionally on television in small roles, including episodes of ''Daniel Boone'', ''All in the Family'', and ''Night Court''; and Off-Broadway in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre (also known as the Firesigns) was an American surreal comedy troupe who first appeared on November 17, 1966, in a live performance on the Los Angeles radio program ''Radio Free Oz'' on station KPFK FM. They continued appearing on ''Radio Free Oz'', which later moved to KRLA 1110 AM and then KMET FM, through February 1969. They produced fifteen record albums and a 45 rpm single under contract to Columbia Records from 1967 through 1976, and had three nationally syndicated radio programs: ''The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour'' icin 1970 on KPPC-FM; and '' Dear Friends'' (1970–1971) and ''Let's Eat!'' (1971–1972) on KPFK. They also appeared in front of live audiences, and continued to write, perform, and record on other labels, occasionally taking sabbaticals during which they wrote or performed solo or in smaller groups. The Firesign Theatre was the brainchild of Peter Bergman, and all of its material was conceived, written, and performed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Schwartz (comedian)
Eric Schwartz, also known as "Smooth-E", is an American comedian, musician, and actor from Thousand Oaks, California known for his energetic blend of stand-up comedy, music, and video. Eric's viral videos and parodies have earned him international media attention and he has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Showtime, BET, TMZ, and The Huffington Post. Stand-up Comedy Billed as "one of the nation’s hottest rising stand up headliners", Eric Schwartz regularly performs as the headliner at The Improv and The Laugh Factory comedy clubs while on tour. Music videos The following music videos can be viewed at Eric Schwartz, with the exception of those marked with an asterisk. Original Songs Parodies Notes * ''Obama Style'' was created in collaboration with What's Trending * ''We Were Never Ever Actually Together'' was created in collaboration with Yahoo Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornell Club
The Cornell Club of New York, usually referred to as The Cornell Club, is a private club in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Its membership is restricted to alumni and faculty of Cornell University, family of Cornellians, business associates of Members, and graduates of The Club's affiliate schools. The Cornell Club's clubhouse is a fourteen-story building located at 6 East 44th Street between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue. History In 1889, the first Cornell Club was formed by Cornell University graduates. The current 14-story clubhouse located in midtown Manhattan at 6 East 44th Street was formerly the offices of the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company. The building was a gift to the University and was renovated by the firm of Gensler & Associates of San Francisco, CA. The clubhouse opened its doors on December 1, 1989. Past Locations: * 1900 The Royalton Apartment Hotel on West 44th Street * 1901 65 Park Avenue, and Madison Avenue at 38th Street * 1939 The Hotel Barclay (now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cornell Daily Sun
''The Cornell Daily Sun'' is an independent daily newspaper published in Ithaca, New York by students at Cornell University and hired employees. ''The Sun'' features coverage of the university and its environs as well as stories from the Associated Press and UWIRE. It prints on weekdays when the university is open for academic instruction as a tabloid-sized daily. In addition to these regular issues, ''The Sun'' publishes a graduation issue and a freshman issue, which is mailed to incoming Cornell freshmen before their first semester. The paper is free on campus and online. Aside from a few full-time production and business positions, ''The Sun'' is staffed by Cornell students and is fully independent of the university. It operates out of its own building in downtown Ithaca. ''The Sun'' is the twentieth-ranked college newspaper in the United States as of 2022, according to The Princeton Review. History The ''Cornell Sun'' was founded in 1880 by William Ballard Hoyt to challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, YouTuber, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film '' Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films '' Mallrats'' (1995), '' Chasing Amy'' (1997), ''Dogma'' (1999), '' Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' (2001), '' Clerks II'' (2006), '' Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'' (2019), and '' Clerks III'' (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the " View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made horror films, including '' Red State'' (2011) and the "comedy horr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Barry
David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the '' Miami Herald'' from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005). Barry has defined a sense of humor as "a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge." Early life and education Barry was born in Armonk, New York where his father, David W. Barry, was a Presbyterian minister. He was educated at Wampus Elementary School, Harold C. Crittenden Junior High School (both in Armonk), and Pleasantville High School, where he was elected "Class Clown" in 1965. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Haverfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Dick
Andrew Roane Dick (born Andrew Thomlinson; December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, musician, and television and film producer. Known professionally as a comic, his first regular television role was on the short-lived but influential '' Ben Stiller Show''. In the mid-1990s, he had a long-running stint on NBC's ''NewsRadio'' and was a supporting character on ''Less than Perfect''. He briefly had his own program, '' The Andy Dick Show'', on MTV. He is noted for his outlandish behavior on a number of '' Comedy Central Roasts'' and other appearances. He is also known for his eccentric behavior, struggles with drug addiction, and numerous sexual misconduct allegations and arrests. Early life and education Dick was born on December 21, 1965, in Charleston, South Carolina, as Andrew Thomlinson. He was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick, and named Andrew Roane Dick. He was brought up Presbyterian. His father was in the Navy. As a child, he spent time living with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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