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Year in Review

The Year's Best Humor Writing 2011

by | December 28th, 2011

It's a good thing I enjoy humor because, if I had to estimate, I'd put the number of humor pieces I've read this year somewhere in the low thousands. As a fan — and as someone who's numb to the embarrassment that comes with laughing aloud while riding public transportation — I imagine I'd have read some fraction of these just for fun. But as someone who’s had the privilege of editing Splitsider's Humor Section for the past nine months and compiling the list below (who am I kidding? tl;dr), I’ve been overwhelmed in the best way possible by the volume and quality of the humorists populating the [...]

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Raising a Good Enough Baby

by | September 20th, 2010

Andy Borowitz's The Good Enough Baby, from this week's New Yorker: "There are many misconceptions about babies and baths. The old saying 'Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater' implies that the baby is something amazing that you’d want to keep, while the bathwater is something disgusting that you’re right to throw out. Well, who made the bathwater disgusting? That’s right, the baby. The bathwater was probably drinkable before the baby, caked with the remains of meals (and worse), polluted it. A better, less contradictory saying would be 'Don’t give your baby a bath.'"

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Allison Silverman: Et Tu, Brooklyn

by | September 13th, 2010

Former Colbert Report Executive Producer/Daily Show writer Allison Silverman has a humor piece in the New Yorker this week entitled Et Tu, Brooklyn? It's about, well, Brooklyn: "One of my birthday gifts was membership on a Web site that uses a personality test to match you with a farmer who grows kale in a manner compatible with your values, and I hosted a dinner party the night my first bushels arrived. At first, everything was great. Guests mingled. Cheese breathed. A tattoo of an old-timey boxer bumped up against a tattoo of a seventeenth-century Dutch frigate. My friend Zander joked about his wife’s quirks to her ex-girlfriend, who sells [...]

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