The next Seinfeld?

Remember the 5-year-old girl who was vehement about the fact that she must have a job before she’d ever consider getting married? Well, it looks like she’s found her chosen career path: comedy. Oh boy!

In this video, the little sister of 11-year-old singer-songwriter and YouTube personality Anna Graceman, says she needs someone to transcribe Seinfeld’s jokes for her so she can practice them. In a George Costanza-esque frenzy, she cries, “Seinfeld! He does really good jokes! And I can’t do that much jokes because nobody laughs at me! And I need someone to tweet me!” Hilarious. Watch: Continue reading »

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Awkward confrontation: Hasselbeck holds Maher accountable yesterday on The View.

In case you missed it, Bill Maher appeared on The View yesterday to promote his recently released book, The New New Rules. He didn’t talk about his book much, though, instead spending the bulk of his time with the ladies defending his choice to mock View host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher.

Back in February, Maher used as comedy fodder the brutal assault endured by CBS reporter Lara Logan in Egypt, joking that in exchange for Logan’s safe return, “we will send Elisabeth Hasselbeck.”

Hasselbeck claims she wasn’t personally offended by the joke, but that she thinks it’s an affront to women. She might be right. Continue reading »

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The hilarious Myq Kaplan. Photo by Mindy Tucker.

My friend Myq Kaplan is one of the funniest guys on the stand-up scene today. You may recognize him from Last Comic Standing and his own Comedy Central Presents special. I find his work especially remarkable because the intelligence level of his writing is nearly unparalleled, and yet his jokes remain totally accesible and extremely enjoyable.  I guarantee you’ll belly laugh throughout this video of his recent appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, in which he talks about school bullying, gay couples having children and sharks in haystacks. Enjoy! Continue reading »

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Comedian and mother, Samantha Bee.

The Canadian Comedy Awards were held last night, where Daily Show correspondent and Babble Voices blogger Samantha Bee was named Comedy Person of the Year.

Bee has been on a roll lately, after publishing a memoir, “I Know I Am But What Are You?” last year.  Her most recent post for Babble Voices, Irony, Meet Toddler, details her feelings about an experience I can totally relate to: using your child as a prop for comedy.  Bee describes how her husband — fellow Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones — used their daughter in a very funny Daily Show sketch “in which he demonstrated his new abilities as a father.”  In the sketch, Jones “takes her to a peep show, drags her behind his bike while riding at top speed -–all you see is the empty tricycle reeling around the corner after him, takes her to a bar and spills beer all over her, and in the piece de la resistance, puts her in a Baby Bjorn and dives into a swimming pool.”

Bee writes: Continue reading »

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Comedian and blogger Jason Good with one of his sons.

My friend, comedian Jason Good, has been blogging each day for the past 215 days.  That’s a feat in and of itself, especially considering the fact that he is married with two kids and manages to maintain a live performance schedule. Today his hilarious blog, Jason Good 365 (“providing five degrees more insight than Anderson Cooper”) has finally gone viral with a post titled, “Approximately 3 Minutes Inside the Head of My 2 Year Old.” The post has over 6,400 likes on Facebook and has gotten so much attention from the momosphere that his site crashed at one point. Kudos to you, Jason! Now check out the writing that proves this stand-up guy has got the goods. Continue reading »

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Baby Maurica

If the Internet has proven one thing (besides the fact that cats > everything else that exists), it’s that parents think it’s hilarious to put their kids in adult situations.  We love to take pictures of our pre-schoolers dressed up as adults, we put beer bottles next to sleeping babies as if they’re passed-out drunk and photograph ourselves holding our babies with unlit cigarettes in our mouths.  I’ve done at least three of those three things, so I get it.  Some people even let their babies suck on a bong!  (I mean, WHY NOT?)

So I can’t say I was entirely shocked when I came across this video of a 4-year-old girl pretending to be Maurica, a hilarious and ribald character created by my friend Yannis Pappas, whose “Love Match: Maurica I” video has gone viral with over 1 million views.  If you’re at all squeamish, you might find the Maurica video offensive (it’s not safe for work), but if you have a bawdy sense of humor and you live in New York City, I guarantee that you’ll die laughing because it’s so funny.  It’s the kind of video you want to watch multiple times, which is obviously what mini-Maurica’s mom has done.  In the description for the Baby Maurica video (below), Baby Maurica’s mom writes, “My 4yr Old as Maurica…she has never watched the full videos but has heard many of the lines…Especially Dassss it!” Continue reading »

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I joined a gym for the first time in a decade.

This week Michelle Obama celebrates the one year anniversary of her Let’s Move campaign, and yet she’s under fire from conservative women like Michele Bachmann – who thinks the First Lady is giving out free breast pumps – and Michelle Malkin, who has accused Mrs. Obama of cloaking “her meddling anti-obesity crusade in medical fakery.”  In criticizing the First Lady’s newly introduced pro-breastfeeding element of her anti-obesity campaign, Malkin says, “Mrs. O’s real interest isn’t in nurturing nursing moms or slimming down kids’ waistlines. It’s in boosting government and public union payrolls, along with beefing up FCC and FTC regulators’ duties.”

Malkin has a right to point to the inconclusiveness of the breast vs. bottle debate, but it’s silly for her to suggest that Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is a hypocrite for telling women, “No mother should be made to feel guilty if she cannot or chooses not to breastfeed,” (Malkin adds) while laying an unmistakable guilt trip on moms and moms-to-be.”  Malkin herself does the same kind of bait and switch in her post on the subject, saying, “As a proud mom who breastfed both of her babies, I’ve been and will always be a vocal defender of women who have devoted the time, dedication and selflessness it takes. But…. we don’t need Big Brother or Big Mother to lead the Charge of the Big Bosom to persuade us of the personal benefits.”  In other words, don’t breastfeed because the Surgeon General and Michelle Obama want you to, breastfeed because you want to.  And you do want to, right?

I wasn’t breastfed, but my mother was, and neither one of us turned out much differently than the other physically.  We’re two pleasantly plump ladies on a health kick these days, trying to recuperate from damage that was inflicted during difficult periods in our lives.  Just the other day I joined a gym for the first time in a decade.  Meanwhile, my mother has been a Zumba devotee for the last several months.  Listen to what she has to say about how it’s changed her life: Continue reading »

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