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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 , US , 1988–1990 , George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jack Handey, Mark O'Donnell , 3 issues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academia Cațavencu
''Academia Cațavencu'' (, "The Cațavencu Academy") is a Romanian satirical magazine founded in 1991 and made famous by its investigative journalism. ''Academia Cațavencu'' also owns ''Radio Guerrilla' an FM radio station with national coverag ''Tabu'', a women's magazine, ''Superbebe'', a magazine for new parents, ''Aventuri la pescuit'', a magazine for fishermen, '' 24-FUN'', a free magazine for teenagers, and '' Cotidianul'', a daily newspaper. In a surprise move, on May 29, 2006, ''Academia Cațavencu'' press group announced it was being acquireby Realitatea Media, owners of Realitatea TV, and controlled by controversial and elusive businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vântu. Vântu himself has often been a target of enquiries by ''Cațavencu'' journalists. Name Nae Cațavencu is a character in Ion Luca Caragiale's 1883 comedy '' O scrisoare pierdută'' ("A Lost Letter"). An unscrupulous, demagogue politician, Cațavencu uses his newspaper ''Răcnetul Carpaților'' ("The Yell of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Pétillon
René Pétillon (; 12 December 1945, Lesneven – 30 September 2018) was a French satirical and political cartoonist and comics artist. As a cartoonist he was most famous for his work in '' Canard Enchaîné''. As a comics artist his best known and longest-running series was the humoristic comic strip Jack Palmer, about a goofy private detective. Pétillon joined ''Pilote'' magazine in 1972. From 1993, he published cartoons in the '' Canard Enchaîné'' and he signed them as ''Pétillon''. In 1989, he was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2002 he get the ''Grand prix de l'humour vache'' at the ''Salon international du dessin de presse et d'humour'' in Saint-Just-le-Martel. In 2001, he published ''L'Enquête Corse'' ("The Corsican Enquiry"), dealing with the "independentist" groups in Corsica. The album was a popular and critical success, with 300,000 printed in French plus 30,000 in Corsican. A movie of the same name, sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Canard Enchaîné
(; English: "The Chained Duck" or "The Chained Paper", as is French slang meaning "newspaper") is a satirical weekly newspaper in France. Its headquarters is in Paris. Founded in 1915 during World War I, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and cartoons. ''Le Canard enchaîné'' does not accept any advertisements and is privately owned, mostly by its own employees. Presentation Early history The name is a reference to Radical Georges Clemenceau's newspaper ''L'homme libre'' (‘The Free Man’), which was forced to close by government censorship and reacted upon its reopening by changing its name to ''L'homme enchaîné'' ("The Chained-up Man"); ''Le Canard enchaîné'' means ‘The chained-up duck’ but ''canard'' (duck) is also French slang for ‘newspaper’; it was also a reference to French journals published by soldiers during World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben "Bean Kid" Doyle
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Benson or Ebenezer, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin'' (بن), ''Ibn''/''ebn'' (ابن). Ben (賁/便嗯 ) is a Chinese surname. People with the given name * Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1 * Ben Affleck (born 1972), American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Ben Askren (born 1984), American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist * Ben Axtman (born 1933), American politician * Ben Bailey (born 1970), American comedian and game show host * Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player * Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player * Ben Barnes (other), multiple people * Ben Bartch (born 1998), American football player * Ben Bartlett, British composer * Ben Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Carlos
Jordan Carlos (born February 2, 1978) is an American stand-up comedian who played a recurring character on ''The Colbert Report'' and is a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids' show '' Me TV''. He also appeared as a panelist and reporter on '' The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore''. Career Early career Jordan Carlos graduated Brown University in 2001 and began work as a copywriter in a New York ad firm. At night and on weekends Carlos performed stand-up comedy. Eventually Carlos abandoned advertising altogether in favor of stand-up although he feels he had trouble finding a niche audience because he "wasn't a stereotypical black man". He learned to use that characteristic as the basis for many of his jokes. Role on ''The Colbert Report'' On ''The Colbert Report'' Carlos played Alan, host Stephen Colbert's "black friend". Whenever Colbert discussed racial issues, he often asked that a picture of him with his African-American co-worker Alan be shown on screen. Colbert sometimes referred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathanael West
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: '' Miss Lonelyhearts'' (1933) and '' The Day of the Locust'' (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries. Early life Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City, the first child of Ashkenazi Jewish parents Max (Morduch) Weinstein (1878–1932) and Anuta (Anna, née Wallenstein, 1878–1935), from Kovno, Russia (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), who maintained an upper middle class household in a Jewish neighborhood on the Upper West Side. West displayed little ambition in academics, dropping out of high school and only gaining admission into Tufts College by forging his high school transcript. After being expelled from Tufts, West got into Brown University by appropriating the transcript of a fellow Tufts student, his cousin, Nathan Weinstein. Although West did l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brown Jug
''The Brown Jug'' (also known as ''The Jug'') is a college humor magazine founded in 1920 at Brown University in Providence, RI, Providence, Rhode Island. Founding Following the death of the ''Brunonian'' in February 1919, ''The Brown Jug'' was founded in February 1920, making it Brown University, Brown's oldest humor publication and second-oldest publication overall (Brown University, Brown's student newspaper, ''The Brown Daily Herald'', founded in 1891, is the only publication that pre-dates the ''Jug''). The ''Jug''s original statement of purpose read: ''"The Brown Jug, a magazine of wit, administered in monthly installments, is published by the Board of Jugglers ... The Brown Jug is on sale on news stands, hotel stands and railroad stations in Providence, New York and Boston."'' The cover of the ''Jug''s first issue showed a girl in party dress and hat emerging from a bandbox holding a small bear; it proclaimed this the “Coming Out Number,” and the masthead identified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Beaton
Kathryn Moira Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip ''Hark! A Vagrant'', which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books ''The Princess and the Pony'' and ''King Baby'', published in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The former was made into an Apple TV+ series called ''Pinecone & Pony'' released in 2022 on which Beaton worked as an executive producer. Also in 2022, Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form, ''Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands'', about her experience working in the Alberta oil sands. ''Publishers Weekly'' named ''Ducks'' one of their top ten books of the year. Early life Of Scottish descent, Beaton grew up with her three sisters in Mabou, Nova Scotia, Mabou on the isle of Cape Breton. She went to a small school for K–12, only having 23 people in her class. She graduated from Mount Allison University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology. Beaton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Handey
Jack Handey (born February 25, 1949) is an American humorist. He is best known for his "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey", a large body of Surrealism, surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his "Fuzzy Memories" and "My Big Thick Novel" shorts, and for his deadpan delivery. Although many assume otherwise, Handey is a real person, not a pen name or character. Career Handey's earliest writing job was for a newspaper, the ''San Antonio Express-News''. He lost the job after writing an article that, in his words, "offended local car dealerships". His first comic writing was with comedian Steve Martin. According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for ''Saturday Night Live'' (SNL) after Martin introduced him to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels. For several years, Handey worked on other television projects: the Canadian Sketch comedy, sketch series ''Bizarre (TV series), Bizarre'' in 1980, the 1980 Steve Martin television special ''Comedy Is Not Pretty!'', and Lorne Michaels's short-lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McConnachie
Brian John McConnachie (December 23, 1942 – January 5, 2024) was an American actor, comedy writer, and children's book author. Background McConnachie was born in Manhattan, New York, on December 23, 1942, and was raised in Forest Hills, Queens. He attended University College Dublin and also served in the U.S. Army. Career During the early 1970s, McConnachie was one of the main writers for '' National Lampoon'', where he authored and co-authored many articles. He left the magazine after four years, but as Rick Meyerowitz wrote, in his 2010 book '' Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'', " cConnachie's ''Lampoon'' workis well loved, here on earth and on his home planet." In 1978, McConnachie left the ''Lampoon'' and joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, joining Bill Murray and John Belushi, two friends from The National Lampoon Radio Hour. McConnachie and Belushi remained particularly close until Belushi's death in 1982, and Murray and McConnachie remained friends as well, ... [...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, a ''Sunday Times'' best-selling parody 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 and publisher, personally handling all aspects of the venture. This auteurist method is somewhat uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
