But you have to admit, the current administration is a goldmine of absurdity… Trump & Company are like the Benny Hill show so easy to mock everything that happens minute by minute
This admin is like that of Idiocracy, a prescient 2005 film, in which the pres and cabinet are stupid, corrupt, pervs, illiterate, environmental nightmares, and incompetent. Nevertheless, that cast of characters outwits the current one.
That was the movie that made my daughter and her boyfriend to help save the world by getting married and having children. All we need to do now is to wait a few years for them to get elected!
Benny Hill entertained us with humor; Trump isn’t trying to entertain us; he’s not smart enough to know we are laughing at him. But he is hurting us. So not funny.
I especially liked the beginning shot of Benny Hill, industriously pedaling his Tricycle in a tiny circle until quickly falling over on the ground sideways. I wonder if this is what mr trumpf is trying to do...?
Can the TBR community do an on line comparison of the Pope vs the Dope.....America's two most famous spokespeople?
Like who is more fluent in languages? Who has more followers? Who won their position by a wider margin? the list is endless .....the conclave is”Making America Great Again”
Yes. the smart young people wanting to enter the Congress could change this bad trajectory (The new voices and minds -- Maxwell Frost, AOC and others -- could replace a lot of the dead-wood, non functioning, Congress persons currently in pplaace, who do not fight for our Country, but instead just sit quietly holding onto their paychecks). The Electoral Collega and Citizens United and also Gerrymandering all do a lot of harm to the election process. It will not change until someone changes it.
Be prepared for Pope Leo to kick butt, subtly or maybe not so subtly. Leo is profoundly moral - I’m not claiming he’s perfect, no one is- and is diametrically opposite of our scoundrel conman “king” & his palace fools.
But judging from his actions, I doubt Bukele himself would be too receptive. But his population would and that's why it would be advisable for him to discourage a papal visit. Same dynamic would apply if Trump were asked to host a papal visit. I don't think Trump could legally stop Leo from visiting America but he would certainly try to minimize thev impact and seize the news cycle by some kind of major distraction. I would bet you anything that a number of authoritarian governments including our own are busy trying to dig up dirt from Leo's past.
What if, as a Villanova undergrad, Robert Prevost participated in the St. Patrick’s Day pub crawl along Lancaster Avenue? That would be confirmation - pun not intended - that he grew up as normal person. Did the College of Cardinals elected an American as a giant FUCK YOU to Catholic convert JD Vance, who precipitated the passing of Pope Francis? [Perhaps that was not a rhetorical question on my part.]
took credit for the new pope. (Because American Catholics love him …or rather he stacked the SC with people who swore Roe was settled law-ha! ). I’d laugh if it couldn’t be sadder.
Totally. Alas, I very rarely watched her show back then. I discovered as an adult how good she was. My recall is fuzzy, but I suspect that I saw more of her when she'd be a guest on one or another of the adult variety shows?
TV was not something we children had any control of so my memories are brief but profound. They serve as a reminder to me of just how powerful a kind word can be.
Suzanne! My parents did the very same thing on a smaller scale. Somehow they got me on a locally produced children's TV show in Houston circa 1953 or so. In a brightly lit tv studio we kids were seated on three wood bleachers and had to endure a horrid entertainer and his clown sidekick standing in front of us talking incomprehensibly. Now I'm old and can't remember what I ate last night, but this memory comes popping In. Time flies...
Suzanne, I can believe there was grounds for your reaction to being in the studio. Clarabell was pretty beastly-looking, for starters. The whole thing was off just watching from home. Buffalo Bob seemed sweaty. I don't know what it was about that show. Howdy, too, was no treat. None of them, marionette or human. Hey, why don't you come to the city, if you're elsewhere, and let's go to the Peanut Gallery together. More ice cream cones!
Out here on the Left Coast where I currently reside we don't have such travel problems. We just hitch a ride on a passing beaver as it swims by. Beats the Staten Island Ferry!
Somehow you just made me flash on a rude children's joke about H.D, It was told to me in childhood by a friend a couple of years older. Dare I whisper it?
"Howdy Doody is his stage name. What is his real name?"
"Hello Sh*t."
I blanch slightly for having understood it at the time.
3 minibar whiskies - that is just one drink for Kegstand Pete. But he probably has 8-10 cases stashed in his office in toilet tanks around the Pentagon.
I find more disturbing the plastic wire sticking out of the back of Hegseth's neck, ya, some are going to say that it is part of the ear piece, but I think it is something much more sinister.
I should have wrote: check out SNL. Hilarious skit.
See you in Princeton Andy! I might be bringing my nieces to offset the grey. maybe a 10 minute stand up? Update on Dr. Ho and others he might have almost killed?
Why does Pirro look like a twit and Hegseth look like a criminal? Does the Trumpster only know Fox folks to pick from? And VD Vance should stay home on his couch. On another note, I never knew American Presidents could take a gift like a B747 jumbo jet from a foreign government. Seems kind of like a bribe.
Prawlee is considered a bribe...but, so what? No laws can be applied to TFF's actions. Perhaps that government will throw in a few dolls as a bonus. No tariffs involved.
VD Vance 😂 Hope he practices safe sofa. He's such a slut. I'll bet when you go to the Naval Observatory the sofas have plastic covers on them and Usha doesn't let the kids near them.
Doesn't every American Dictator get a spyware/malware infected/surveillanced spied on and listened to booby trapped 💣🛬 🙏 747 with solid gold seatbelts from Qatar or Saudia Arabia?
Interesting thought, but probably the DoD would check it out carefully. So maybe the guy will eat too many hamburgers or catch something serious from Laura Loomer.
So JD Vance managed to out Fox both of them!
The makeup triumvirate can adopt a new unifying motto: "If you can't go highbrow -- go eyebrow!"
Three butt-ugly drag queens....
--or just three butt-ugly drags!
Exactly.
That’s wonderful
Well done Alan!
or if you want MAGA purity - go unibrow
Hilarious! :-) !!
<golf clap>
Well said, Alan!!
Hahaha 😆. Good one, Alan!
Trophy's yours, Alan.
Suzanne, I'd gladly trade the trophy for a return to Democracy and sanity!
Amen to that, Alan
Or lowbrow
Outfox Fox!
Melissa -- Yes, Justa "outfoxed" Peter Pecker and Perturbed Pirro.
One key point is that the absconded eyebrow pencil needs to be very carefully handled by Justa so it does not stain his favorite couch!
EWWWWWW! I want that image out of my head!!
Mary and Michael -- their one true form of expertise is evoking "eews" from the TBR community.
Alan - eeeeww!
LOL
<golf clap>
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wit!!!
That's the problem with DUI hires...
To bad the convicts dementia and selective hearing haven't gotten him to relate their DUIs with DEI. It could fix two of our problems.
"It's mine, bitch!"
"No! Mine, media whore!"
Full disclosure:I stole the term outright from the brilliant Jasmine Crockett!
but sharing is caring :)
IUD
oh, if only their mothers had used them!
<standing ovation> and three gold stars for the day!!
Agree
Thanks, Andy,first smile of the day!
Yes! First laugh-out-loud for the day! Thanks, Andy!
Mr. Borowitz, there is no one funnier than you on this planet!
But you have to admit, the current administration is a goldmine of absurdity… Trump & Company are like the Benny Hill show so easy to mock everything that happens minute by minute
This admin is like that of Idiocracy, a prescient 2005 film, in which the pres and cabinet are stupid, corrupt, pervs, illiterate, environmental nightmares, and incompetent. Nevertheless, that cast of characters outwits the current one.
That was the movie that made my daughter and her boyfriend to help save the world by getting married and having children. All we need to do now is to wait a few years for them to get elected!
That movie was a perfect rendition of where we find ourselves.
I was thinking the tRump administration was more a combination of "Let's Make a Deal!" "The Gong Show" and "Laugh-In"
and "Orange is the New Dictator"
Or "Twilight Zone"
That’s the one.
Not Laugh In! That was libral political!
If it wasn't real life actually happening to us, this could be a Stanley Kubrik movie. Comedy Gold.
This administration is perfect fodder for SNL and comedians.
yeah but benny hill never hurt anyone
Benny Hill entertained us with humor; Trump isn’t trying to entertain us; he’s not smart enough to know we are laughing at him. But he is hurting us. So not funny.
But he was gross
I especially liked the beginning shot of Benny Hill, industriously pedaling his Tricycle in a tiny circle until quickly falling over on the ground sideways. I wonder if this is what mr trumpf is trying to do...?
Except Dave Barry. Does he use eyebrow pencil?? Do you???
Re: Dave Barry. Stay tuned!!
be still my heart!! Two icons on the same screen? I won't be able to sleep!!!!
Dave Barry will be at the Gaithersburg book festival May 17 at 1:15 pm according to their schedule.
Could you two have a Mano - Mano column contest??
What about Carl Hiasson?
Yes, please! Carl, Dave and Andy together!
I’m a little old lady with an inherited sense of humor! Lucky me.
True, innit? :-) !!
Can the TBR community do an on line comparison of the Pope vs the Dope.....America's two most famous spokespeople?
Like who is more fluent in languages? Who has more followers? Who won their position by a wider margin? the list is endless .....the conclave is”Making America Great Again”
And who knows anything about Christianity?
And the Bible?
In contrast, the Electoral College is Making America Go Assbackwards.
Yes. the smart young people wanting to enter the Congress could change this bad trajectory (The new voices and minds -- Maxwell Frost, AOC and others -- could replace a lot of the dead-wood, non functioning, Congress persons currently in pplaace, who do not fight for our Country, but instead just sit quietly holding onto their paychecks). The Electoral Collega and Citizens United and also Gerrymandering all do a lot of harm to the election process. It will not change until someone changes it.
Why are we still clinging to these ancient religions?
Be prepared for Pope Leo to kick butt, subtly or maybe not so subtly. Leo is profoundly moral - I’m not claiming he’s perfect, no one is- and is diametrically opposite of our scoundrel conman “king” & his palace fools.
Perhaps Pope Leo's first visit could be to El Salvador to put the squeeze on Bukele
But judging from his actions, I doubt Bukele himself would be too receptive. But his population would and that's why it would be advisable for him to discourage a papal visit. Same dynamic would apply if Trump were asked to host a papal visit. I don't think Trump could legally stop Leo from visiting America but he would certainly try to minimize thev impact and seize the news cycle by some kind of major distraction. I would bet you anything that a number of authoritarian governments including our own are busy trying to dig up dirt from Leo's past.
OMG.
What if, as a Villanova undergrad, Robert Prevost participated in the St. Patrick’s Day pub crawl along Lancaster Avenue? That would be confirmation - pun not intended - that he grew up as normal person. Did the College of Cardinals elected an American as a giant FUCK YOU to Catholic convert JD Vance, who precipitated the passing of Pope Francis? [Perhaps that was not a rhetorical question on my part.]
Maybe because the new ones we create are a bit crappier?
And I just read Trump
took credit for the new pope. (Because American Catholics love him …or rather he stacked the SC with people who swore Roe was settled law-ha! ). I’d laugh if it couldn’t be sadder.
We have a president who develops personal relationships with TV personalities in his head, and those are essentially all the "friends" he has.
And he believes TV movies are real!
Richard, if you're slurring Howdy Doody, please reconsider.
Or Shari Lewis!
sing along with me . . . "this is the BS that never ends, it goes on and on, my friends"
He could do worse than being friends.with "Lamb Chop".
And he has, at every turn. However, Robin, if you're referring to Richard and not trump, ignore my comment.
I was referring to Al Keim who mentioned Shari Lewis about Trump's "friends". I loved Lamb Chop.
I certainly missed that boat, didn't I? Everyone loved Lamb Chop for being such a, well, lamb chop.
Yes, a far more serious offense. Present vorpal blades!
Shari was a respite in a sea of childhood angst.
Soupy Sales was that person for me.
Onions Oregano, White Fang, Pookie!
I don't remember a whole lot of the show, but know I loved it. It ran from 1953-1966.
Just skimmed one on YT and BB King was on it.
Was he the guy who sold carrots?
Totally. Alas, I very rarely watched her show back then. I discovered as an adult how good she was. My recall is fuzzy, but I suspect that I saw more of her when she'd be a guest on one or another of the adult variety shows?
TV was not something we children had any control of so my memories are brief but profound. They serve as a reminder to me of just how powerful a kind word can be.
L.R., I remember my Aunt Helene,(a very influential New Yorker) getting
my sister and I into the "Peanut Gallery" one time. I was totally disillusioned
by the set, the puppeteer and Clarabell snarling, "OK kids. Showtime. Keep
it down!" It took a large, chocolate cone for my poor Aunt to undo the
damage.
Suzanne! My parents did the very same thing on a smaller scale. Somehow they got me on a locally produced children's TV show in Houston circa 1953 or so. In a brightly lit tv studio we kids were seated on three wood bleachers and had to endure a horrid entertainer and his clown sidekick standing in front of us talking incomprehensibly. Now I'm old and can't remember what I ate last night, but this memory comes popping In. Time flies...
Suzanne, I can believe there was grounds for your reaction to being in the studio. Clarabell was pretty beastly-looking, for starters. The whole thing was off just watching from home. Buffalo Bob seemed sweaty. I don't know what it was about that show. Howdy, too, was no treat. None of them, marionette or human. Hey, why don't you come to the city, if you're elsewhere, and let's go to the Peanut Gallery together. More ice cream cones!
Best offer I've had in years! lol Sorry. I'm in Wash.St. and air trans-
portation is a little dodgy these days. My luck, they'd fly me into
Newark.
Shucks, on first reading, I thought you meant Washington Street in the Village. We'd certainly want better than Newark Airport for you.
Out here on the Left Coast where I currently reside we don't have such travel problems. We just hitch a ride on a passing beaver as it swims by. Beats the Staten Island Ferry!
I'm sure Mr. Doody will have other puppets within the administration to socialize.
Somehow you just made me flash on a rude children's joke about H.D, It was told to me in childhood by a friend a couple of years older. Dare I whisper it?
"Howdy Doody is his stage name. What is his real name?"
"Hello Sh*t."
I blanch slightly for having understood it at the time.
LOL
Thanks so much, Suzanne. I was afraid someone would slap me. Not for the naughtiness of the joke, but for its stupididity.
I think it's hilarious. Never heard it, of course. Back "in the day"
boys didn't swear in front of girls usually. But funny, nevertheless.
Yeah but don't forget the fearful sycophants and the grifters--count ALL the votes!
3 minibar whiskies - that is just one drink for Kegstand Pete. But he probably has 8-10 cases stashed in his office in toilet tanks around the Pentagon.
Imagine when they call.the plumber to unstuff the toilets with all the ripped up top secret notes they flushed and find the booze instead 😂
Kegsbreath's supply is stashed in the the drawers of his makeup table.
Your “leakers” are amazing!
Unfortunately not so much for The Yam’s Depends
He buys them by the truckload, poor fellow.
LOL Monday morning satire for sure…. 👍
Fortunately for the three, Matt Gaetz is out of the DC competition. He's been reduced to using non-government funded eyebrow pencil.
or he borrows his teenage girlfriend's
Ouch! 10 points, Annette…
Any update on his lawsuit against his bargain basement plastic surgeon?
I find more disturbing the plastic wire sticking out of the back of Hegseth's neck, ya, some are going to say that it is part of the ear piece, but I think it is something much more sinister.
It's part of the puppet string...like a.marionette. Or the Neuralink Elon installed to control him.
Nah - its mainline Bud Lite.
I think this his USB connection, where they plug him in at night . . . or it could be an anti-alcohol detection device.
😂😂😂 His battery to power him up in the morning after his hangovers.
It wasn't so much of a wrestling match as a highly choreographed dance - the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
😝😝🤬
Priceless! Thank you for a good laugh.
<golf clap>
Have you witnessed the anti-Trump stance of DeNiro?
It’s a top-notch performance by a patriot hero.
But the actor who cunningly played Travis Bickle,
would no doubt find himself in a thespian pickle.
In the face of astonishing Judge Jeannine Pirro.
Now, imagine the war fighter,
Hesgeth the bold.
He wants babes that are hot and brews that are cold.
He has tattoos that link him to mead-swilling Vikings
It’s clear that Valhalla would be to his liking.
When the tales of his steadfast command have been told.
Picture Pete, with the rictus of rage on his face.
And Jeannine, ever loath to accept second place.
Is it judo or boxing they use in their smiting?
No; the deadliest combat: ‘tis Fox News in-fighting.
What’s at stake? A new Maybelline eye make-up case.
Jeannine cries, “Give it up! Or I’ll make your life Hell,
By disturbing your coif with it’s
Bulletproof gel!”
Pete replies, “You’re insane, Jeannine, reach for the sky!
I’ve had four Navy Seals confiscate your hair dye!”
Pete was right. That dark dye has a chemical smell.
But the worst reputation is Veep JD Vance’s
He’s the creep with the furniture oil on his pantses.
And the deadliest member of this lethal trio.
We must keep him away from the Pope, pious Leo.
Lest poor Leo ends up like the saintly Pope Francis.
This is so good! Thanks Glenn!
Roll out the port cannons
Give the mainbrace a splice
We will sail the ship “Freedom”
Through fire and ICE.
At the helm, as we’re cruisin’,
It’s brave Susan Kice.
She’s a substacker veteran;
To be more precise,
When she praises my verses
My throat gets a lump.
For we share the despair of
Unbearable Trump.
𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘴 -- Such gleeful poetic license and all that goes with it followed by your paean to Susan make this a special day at TBR. Andy's okay, too.
Think of F. Murray Abramson, actor supreme,
But no match for L.R., every Substacker’s dream.
How could we ever tolerate
Trump’s tide of merde
If we all were not sure L.R. Abramson cared.
My thanks, good sir.
I am the luckiest sub stacker! Poetry!
I would deserve to be swiftly whacked
If I rudely claimed: “Susan Kice is Stacked!”
Indeed you would sir!
If Glenn Ebo claimed that Susan was stacked
How not very nice! Such couth he would lack!
But Glenn is a wit and knows what he's doing
So the very nice Kise, Glenn Ebo, is
not sueing.
Everyone would be disappointed!🤣🤣🤣😝😝😝
Now Glenn may write a ditty, my own to surpass
And show such wit, such invention such class
As TBR poet laureate he has just claim
My only recourse is to speak my old flame
Using Latin, a tongue few can decipher
Poësis est vinum dæmonum
sed gratiur!
You know I sang it !🎵 Lol
So, a Robin is singing,
And you’re in a park.
L.A.R. with the K means
You might be a lark.
At the end of this verse
Ever cheerful and free,
Is the Mainer’s own bird,
The black-capped Chickadee.
Me too!
OMG! Another out loud laugh!! Thanks so much, Andy!
Check out SNL!
I posted this headline on Facebook before SNL. But there are plenty of drinking jokes to go around with this clown car. 😀
Your comedy is so creative. A mood-salvation.
Andy -- Lorne Michaels should have given you credit before the characters shouted out "Live from New York .....".
I honestly think we've graduated from clown car to clown school bus (or perhaps Qatar luxury jet)
😝
I should have wrote: check out SNL. Hilarious skit.
See you in Princeton Andy! I might be bringing my nieces to offset the grey. maybe a 10 minute stand up? Update on Dr. Ho and others he might have almost killed?
Oh yes Dr. Ho!
I just watched a few old SNL news bits with Cecily Strong as Judge Jeanine Boxwine - hilarious!
Why does Pirro look like a twit and Hegseth look like a criminal? Does the Trumpster only know Fox folks to pick from? And VD Vance should stay home on his couch. On another note, I never knew American Presidents could take a gift like a B747 jumbo jet from a foreign government. Seems kind of like a bribe.
Ya think???!!
plus-it's probably wired for sound recording; could have a
'kill switch" to be detonated from afar. I wouldn't trust it.
if that's the case, Octavia, I wouldn't stop the gift giving <wink>
and they gave me this really cool beeper....
<snort laugh>
Prawlee is considered a bribe...but, so what? No laws can be applied to TFF's actions. Perhaps that government will throw in a few dolls as a bonus. No tariffs involved.
No bribes!!! 😂
Apparently he’s picked over 20 people from Fox in both terms. I think he spends a lot of time watching Fox.
VD Vance 😂 Hope he practices safe sofa. He's such a slut. I'll bet when you go to the Naval Observatory the sofas have plastic covers on them and Usha doesn't let the kids near them.
Doesn't every American Dictator get a spyware/malware infected/surveillanced spied on and listened to booby trapped 💣🛬 🙏 747 with solid gold seatbelts from Qatar or Saudia Arabia?
Interesting thought, but probably the DoD would check it out carefully. So maybe the guy will eat too many hamburgers or catch something serious from Laura Loomer.