Since the Jan. 7, 2015 killings, many humorists have been struggling to tackle the question of Islamic terrorism, security and freedom of speech. Most are undeterred.
it s certainly not hurting anybody. this is a public official. it s not like we are punching down at some downtrodden person. it s just a joke and they are asking us to basically bend the knee and say that we admit this is hateful conduct, please keep us on your platform. we aren t going to do that. we don t know where this ends. there is an appeal process. but i m not going to delete the tweet. tucker: i hope it ends with twitter being shut down by congress but that s not going to be happening. does it occur to you that that s fine on twitter, but if you make fun of rachel levine s ludicrous claim that he s a woman, you are a hater? what s the standard here. there are no standards where they aren t applied evenly. they are applied very unevenly. the problem with comedy right now is it s our job a satirist, comedians, general humorists, the job is to poke a hole in the popular narrative. that s what we do and we are being restricted from doing
celebrated writers, russell baker, has died at the age of 93. the two-time pulitzer prize winning author was one of the best known humorists of his time with his irreverent observer column appearing in the new york times and hundreds of newspapers nationwide for nearly four decades. that column earned him the pulitzer in 1949 and he won once again in 1983, for his critically acclaimed autobiography, growing up. a graduate of johns hopkins university, baker trained as a pilot in world war ii and began his journalism career in 1947, as a police reporter for the baltimore sun. he also notably became only the second host of masterpiece theater in 1992, at the age of 67. baker died monday at his home in
Welcome to City Arts and that choose a season of talks and onstage conversations recorded before a theater audience in San Francisco I m in the front join me now in hearing some of the most celebrated writers artists and thinkers of our day. Hello I m judging true and for Linda Hunt this week our guest is United States senator Al Franken now in his 2nd term representing Minnesota Franken has emerged as one of the most visible and effective critics of the current administration a prominent voice on some of today s biggest issues including health care education and climate change Senator Franken had a somewhat different career before entering politics he was a professional comedian satirist and part of the original writing team behind Saturday Night Live after 15 Emmy award winning years at s n l he went on to write 7 books including his most recent Al Franken giant of the Senate a political memoir unlike any other from a politician unlike any other. On August 15th 2017 Senator Al Frank