Chou, Elaine Hsieh
Summary: "A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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Summary: Shot in his trademark "guerilla video" style, each episode is filled with observations that bridge comedy and controversy and places Michael Moore in the middle of today's hot topics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Capitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Embattled hymn of the Republicans (2:06) -- Greece! The musical (4:59) -- Twinkie twinkie (1:24) -- Secret Service man (1:54) -- I'm just a pill (2:46) -- Down the road again (2:04) -- I like big bucks (2:52) -- Modern major general disaster (2:27) -- One joke over the line (5:38) -- Justice Roberts (1:46) -- Binders full of women (2:03) -- Harpin' bout the GSA (1:55) -- Al Gore-Zeera (3:44) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps Productions 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPHill, Mike
Summary: "Before Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, and "Doonesbury," there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1950 to 2006, his Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCHWALD, ART HILSummary: A news-parody compendium of world non-facts features maps and incorrect statistics for all of the world's independent nations, from Afghanistan to the Ukraine, and includes the world's rejected flag designs and the planet's most annoying handicrafts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.08 DIKCapitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Amazing Rick (2:52) -- Love potion 9-9-9 (1:36) -- Three little wives of Newt (2:05) -- Osama and the sea (3:58) -- You can't hide this Biden guy (3:18) -- Help me fake it to the right (1:41) -- Candidates' hello (1:51) -- Midnight ride of Paul, revised (3:15) -- Don't go fakin' you're smart (2:40) -- If I tax a rich man (3:18) -- Occupy Wall Street Journal (4:18) -- Itsy bitsy teeny Weiner...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPGutfeld, Greg
Summary: "Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights and became host of the #1 late night show in all of television. With his signature wit and whip-smart humor, Greg reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it's like going head-to-head with the liberal media, and what it took to flip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUTFELD, GREG GUTGardner, Gerald C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 GARColbert, Stephen
Summary: The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" offers his opinions, untarnished by facts or research, on important issues in modern American society, including higher education, pets, religion, sports, sex, and the Hollywood agenda.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 818.602 ColbertSummary: From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.602 COLKnipfel, Jim.
Contents: Preface : World without end, Amen -- The chicken who was smarter than everyone -- The boy who came to his senses -- The gnome who would be king -- Plants ain't no good -- Misery & Co. -- Schotzie -- Tubercular bells -- Rancid, the devil horse -- Six-leggity beasties -- Maggot in a red sombrero -- Stench, the crappy snowman -- The toothpick -- These children who come at you with knives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNILeary, Denis
Summary: Denis Leary refutes the current highly partisan Right Wing Nutjob versus Left Wing Snowflake approach to American politics—where you’re either one or the other, with no gray areas in between. Leading a new protest movement called Gray Lives Matter, he takes equal opportunity aim at the screaming heads we see arguing every night on CNN (the Clinton News Network) and Fox’s Fair and Balanced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 LEAFord, Gerald R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.925 FORFranken, Al.
Summary: Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 324 FRAChadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 CHALitt, David
Summary: "A different kind of White House memoir, presidential speechwriter David Litt's comic account of his years spent working with Barack Obama and his reflection on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump. Like many twentysomethings, David Litt frequently embarrassed himself in front of his boss's boss. Unlike many twentysomethings, Litt's boss's boss was President Obama. At age twenty-four, Litt became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LITT, DAVID LITBehar, Joy
Summary: "The brilliant and outspoken star of The View--and one of our most beloved comedians--hits the most unpopular president ever elected where it hurts (and makes us laugh and cheer) in this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that's wrong with the "Orange One," Donald Trump. Put down the Valium, get out of bed: Joy Behar is here to save you from self-harm as she hot-walks you through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BEHCapitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Livin' libido loco -- Son of a Bush -- Al and Bill order a little Chinese -- Put ten grand in the hand -- Won't you go home, Bill Bradley? -- Who wants to be a millionaire candidate? -- You're so vague -- Bob dole's millennial moment -- I can't say yo -- Dung at art -- Blame it on the boss at NASA -- Yappety yap -- Right wing striking again/Stand by your Klan -- NATO -- Kosovo -- Gourmet...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPGutfeld, Greg.
Summary: The Fox News star outlines his rules and tricks for winning any argument against a liberal by using patience, research, humor, and creative thinking. Revealing the strategies that have helped him keep a steady job for almost three decades. Gutfield gives readers the tools they'll need to argue, influence, and convince their friends, family and foes throughout the 2016 election cycle....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 GUTHicks, Bill
Contents: 1 (CD). Fevered egos -- I'm talking to the women here -- My favorite new kid -- Marketing & advertising -- Artistic roll call -- Orange drink -- Save Willie -- Menu? -- A killer idea -- Goodbye you lizard scum -- Summertime -- Elvis -- News -- Confession time (cops) -- Please do not disturb -- Spectravision & housekeeping -- Girl of your dreams -- Clam lappers & Sonic the hedgehog -- What is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN HICSummary: Highlights from the Colbert Report television show on Comedy Central, including segments from: The word: truthiness ; Better know a district ; Green screen challenge ; Stephen Jr. - flight of a patriot ; Papa Bear ; Cooking with feminists ; Meta-free-phor-all and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BESBaum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1996