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Lawsuits Allege Subway's Footlong Sandwiches Aren't Really a Foot Long

Recently a teenager in Australia discovered that his Subway "Footlong" sandwich did not measure up to 12 inches; it was, rather, a mere 11. Which, on this side of the hemisphere, is the sort of discrepancy that forms the basis for both great Stephen Colbert bits and false advertising lawsuits. And ... More >>

Balloons like death

Recently a teenager in Australia discovered that his Subway "Footlong" sandwich did not measure up to 12 inches; it was, rather, a mere 11. Which, on this side of the hemisphere, is the sort of discrepancy that forms the basis for both great Stephen Colbert bits and false advertising lawsuits. And ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From a Toilet Seat Swing Set to a Granite Gorilla

This week, a gorilla guards an oversized balloon sculpture, LACMA screens work by a pioneer in animation, and the swing set takes on new, psychological dimensions. 5. Power to destroy Sculptor Sterling Ruby's ceramic basins look like miniature wastelands, full of destroyed, melted artifacts and bur ... More >>

Why Artists Are Blurring the Line Between Real History and Pretend

This week, a gorilla guards an oversized balloon sculpture, LACMA screens work by a pioneer in animation, and the swing set takes on new, psychological dimensions. 5. Power to destroy Sculptor Sterling Ruby's ceramic basins look like miniature wastelands, full of destroyed, melted artifacts and bur ... More >>

Porkocalypse: Will There Be A Pork Shortage Or Not?

Can it really have only been a couple of days ago? Yes, news of the porkocalypse began to spread just earlier this week after a British trade organization, the National Pig Assn., put out a press release stating that "A world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable." The reason?

10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall

The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.

Jack White -The Wiltern - 5/30/12

Jack White The Wiltern 5/30/12 See also: *Our slideshow of the performance *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Better than...all of the Dead Weather albums put together. The man who built his career on secrets came to the Wiltern last night. Secret marriages, secret sin ... More >>

Elite Troupes

Jack White The Wiltern 5/30/12 See also: *Our slideshow of the performance *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Better than...all of the Dead Weather albums put together. The man who built his career on secrets came to the Wiltern last night. Secret marriages, secret sin ... More >>

Corporations Are Not People, L.A. City Council Unanimously Declares (Stephen Colbert Begs to Differ)

Colbert is going to be mad at the L.A. City Council.​The L.A. City Council today voted to support the idea that corporations do not share the rights of individual Americans under the U.S. Constitution. Occupy L.A. demonstrators were in the house when the council took its vote. The move come ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Colbert's Ice Cream War, A McRib Confession Jacques Pépin's Fridge

A. Scattergoodpumpkins at the Santa Monica farmers market​Los Angeles Times: According to new USDA report, local food sales could $7 billion this year and farmers markets doubled from 1998 to 2009. PBS Food: How to make pumpkin bread pudding. Tomostyle: More fun with secret supper clubs at ... More >>

South Pasadena Police Department Buys Into 'Teens Getting Drunk on Vodka-Soaked Tampons' Story

Drunk people. Tampons. It happens.​At 5:05 p.m. this dark winter evening, the South Pasadena Police Department issued a community press release of the gravest importance. (Its first press release in two weeks, actually. Because South Pasadena Police Department press releases are reserved for t ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

Ben & Jerry's Releases Schweddy Balls Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry's​Back in June, those of us whose love for ice cream is rivaled perhaps only by our love for Alec Baldwin were intrigued by the rumor that Ben & Jerry's was coming out with a Schweddy Balls ice cream flavor. Too good to be true, we thought. Just like the rumor that Baldwin was goin ... More >>

Schweddy Balls Ice Cream: Ben & Jerry's Newest Flavor, or A Very Good Joke

Mostly we try and stay away from telephone tag rumor, but this one is just too beautiful not to pass along. Gothamist reports that SNL's Ana Gasteyer has said in an interview that Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company that has brought us Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream flavor, will be coming out ... More >>

This Headline Was Entirely Improvised!

Mostly we try and stay away from telephone tag rumor, but this one is just too beautiful not to pass along. Gothamist reports that SNL's Ana Gasteyer has said in an interview that Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company that has brought us Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream flavor, will be coming out ... More >>

Modernist Cuisine: How to Score (Um, Borrow) Stunning Cookbooks Via Twitter What Nathan Myhrvold Does With His Blow Torch

A. ScattergoodModernist Cuisine​ Twitter can be a beautiful thing, for zamisdat poets, for Middle Eastern dissidents, for Newt Gingrich. It can also be a very useful emergency button. So when we recently found ourselves needing the answer to a specific question from the copy desk, we put out a ... More >>

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Interviews Nathan Myhrvold: 72-hour Pastrami, Bifurcating His George Foreman Grill "Why??"

If you do not religiously (ha) watch Colbert Nation, you should watch last night's episode, in which Stephen Colbert interviews Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, as you should know with or without the help of Comedy Central, recently published the 6-volume, $625, 40-pound Modernist Cuisine: The Art and S ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Gordita Supreme Court, Martha Stewart's New Show Why Your State Drinks

-- Vanishing America at Clifton's. [Ruth Reichl] -- Stephen Colbert's Gordita Supreme Court. [The Colbert Report] -- Cold Sauce, or how a New York Times Congressional reporter makes insanely easy spaghetti. (Making this recipe as we speak.) [food52] -- Food blogger's home burglary makes the 11 o' ... More >>

Watch Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens) and Ozzy Osbourne at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally!

Funny > Intolerant​Looking for the musical highlight of the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear"? Look no more. Here's Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens), Ozzy Osbourne and the O'Jays performing a bunch of songs about trains. Watch:

Jon Stewart's Los Angeles 'Rally To Restore Sanity' Rejected By City: Alternate Venue Being Sought

Jon Stewart rejected in L.A.​Journo-median Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" Oct. 30 in Los Angeles has been rejected by the city -- at least at the venue organized tried to get, Pershing Square downtown. The event was one of two twin rallies scheduled for L.A. and Washington, D.C. The ... More >>

Raw Means War: FDA Raids Venice Beach Raw Food Co-Op

Venice Beach is famous for many things, among them glistening meatheads pumping iron at Muscle Beach, hippies parked on grassy dunes exhaling plumes of herbal smoke, and throngs of European tourists snapping photos of both. Now we can add news of an FDA raid of Venice-based Rawsome Foods, a raw-fo ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/4-10/8

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Musso & Frank Grill, although it is perhaps most famous for serving steaks and impeccable martinis to character actors, is a rare conservatory of early-20th-century American cooking, and if the EPA cared as much about threat ... More >>

Attention, Colbert Nation: Top 7 Thoughts For Food, Courtesy Stephen Colbert

Comedy Central​ When Stephen Colbert isn't busy campaigning to be President, having a treadmill named after him in outer space, or testifying on immigration reform on Capitol Hill, he takes a few moment to address our favorite topic: food. In a recurring segment called "Thought For Food," Col ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Solves California's Immigration Woes: Stop Eating Fruits And Vegetables

​Comedy-news personality Stephen Colbert testified before Congress Friday on illegal immigration, an issue that hit its boiling point in the Arizona desert and Deep South but has no greater impact than in Los Angeles. Colbert spoke as an "expert witness" because he spent a single day as a farm wo ... More >>

ELEGANTLY SATIRED

​Comedy-news personality Stephen Colbert testified before Congress Friday on illegal immigration, an issue that hit its boiling point in the Arizona desert and Deep South but has no greater impact than in Los Angeles. Colbert spoke as an "expert witness" because he spent a single day as a farm wo ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Lastest Forray into Cooking: iPad Salsa

Maybe the Food Network -- or any of the other networks that are currently scrambling to get their share of the reality food television audience -- should just give Stephen Colbert his own DIY cooking show. After cutting sandwiches with an ice skate at the Olympics, the host of Colbert Nation is now ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/29-4/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Wednesday is Offal Good at Palate, a 21-gun salute to innards - last week saw cardiac night, with chicken-heart fattoush, lamb-heart shwarma, and beef-heart kebabs with prawns and romesco sauce, three courses for $25." ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Olympic Moment: How to Cut a Sandwich with an Ice Skate

Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesStephen Colbert finds a blade for his sandwich​You can't say that Stephen Colbert doesn't put his money where his mouth is. Or, in this case, his lunch. The Comedy Central comedian became the patron saint of speed skating when he bailed out the US Olympic speed skating ... More >>

The Grammy Awards, As Seen from the Staples Center Press Room

Last year we came down pretty hard on the numbskulls journalists in the press room at the Grammys, but would like to officially recant last year's unfair judgment. Specifically, for the record, this is what we said about what awaits the lucky Grammy winners backstage: ...their audience, a bunch of ... More >>

Sugar Shortage, Yes. Crisis? Not So Much.

On August 7th, some of the country's largest food processors, including Mars, Hershey's, General Mills and Kraft, sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stating that the country was on the verge of a massive sugar shortage and that, without raising the quotas on the amount of tariff-free ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Pat Paulsen for President ... Again: Way Before Stephen Colbert, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Unleashed Its Own Political Jokester on America

He ran on the Straight Talking American Government ticket. Sound familiar?

Political Comedy — A Laughing Matter?

He ran on the Straight Talking American Government ticket. Sound familiar?

Best Foot Forward (or Back): Sign at Sunset Foot Clinic

He ran on the Straight Talking American Government ticket. Sound familiar?

Election '08: Raging Against The Scene

in a bottlenecked and barricaded stretch of street, 50 members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, dressed in full uniform, many displaying an impressive array of service medals, stared down an overwhelming deployment of police on foot, horseback and perched atop the raised platforms of massive SWAT ... More >>

On Their Grizzly (Bear)

Credit Stephen Colbert's least favorite band, Grizzly Bear, for intuitively understanding the nature of the Internet better than nearly anyone else after performing brilliant new cut, "2 Weeks" on Letterman last week and then immediately posting it for free download on their website. Don't get me ... More >>

Shit Happened: Scat Porn Trial Begins

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a jury.” So said Chief U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski at 4:55 p.m. today, and not a minute too soon. Over the last two days court clerks had sent up three batches of 50 potential jurors apiece to Room 1600 of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown ... More >>

Late Night's Reluctant Hosts

Must the show go on?

Mothers, Gangsters and the Usual Boobs at the Emmys

Shout outs and murmurs

Club Emmy

Shout outs and murmurs

The Beaver Trap

Allan MacDonell survives 20 years at Hustler

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

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I'd Like to Thank...

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Two Americas, Two Lists

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The Year in Media

I'm sorry Momma

2001 In Review

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