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Baratunde Thurston
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Baratunde was nominated for the Bill Hicks Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, was a regional finalist in Comedy Central's Open Mic Fight and is an original member of Laughing Liberally. He has appeared in media outlets such as C-SPAN, The Washington Times, public radio and Fox News Boston. He performs regularly in New York and Boston, blogs for Huffington Post and is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Thank You Congressional Pages, For Being So Damn Sexy.

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Sprint Disconnections

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Jul 9, 2007
Category: News  
From Hot Topic

Cell Phone

209 Jokes  14 Videos

Sprint says it has disconnected more that 1,000 cell phone customers who made an excessive number of customer support calls. Interestingly, about half of the customers haven't noticed any change in the quality of their Sprint service since being disconnected.

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Troop Withdrawal

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Jul 9, 2007
Category: Political  
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Iraq

411 Jokes  3 Videos

President Bush is opposed to setting a date to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy. This is odd. Considering the president's stance on abortion and sexual education, you'd think he'd be a fan of early withdrawal.

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Bloomberg's Manhattan Driving Tax

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: May 8, 2007
Category: News  Staff Pick!
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New York City

332 Jokes  42 Videos

Critics of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed Manhattan driving tax say it will hurt the working poor. Wrong. Everybody knows the working poor don't commute to Manhattan by car. They take the train from Philly like everybody else.

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DNA Evidence

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: May 8, 2007
Category: News  
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Cop

1357 Jokes  15 Videos

DNA evidence has now freed 200 wrongfully-imprisoned Americans. To make sure this doesn't happen again, police will be collecting DNA samples from all citizens to plant at crime scenes.

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French Election Turnout

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: May 8, 2007
Category: Political  
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Election

525 Jokes  20 Videos

The French had 85 percent turnout in their presidential elections. The 15 percent that didn't vote were actually Americans on vacation in France

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Rudy 2008

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Nov 25, 2006
Category: Political  
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Rudy Giuliani

27 Jokes  1 Videos

Rudy Giuliani has taken the first official steps toward running for president. His major qualification? On 9/11, when his city was under attack, he chose not to hide in a classroom and continue reading a children's book. 


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French Perform Near-Zero G Surgery

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Nov 3, 2006
Category: News  Staff Pick!
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Doctor

295 Jokes  2 Videos

French doctors have performed the world's first surgery in near-zero gravity. That's great. We have 40 million uninsured Americans, and the French want to rub our noses in their socialized "space medicine." Bof!

 


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UK face transplants are a go!

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Nov 1, 2006
Category: News  Staff Pick!
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Plastic Surgery

70 Jokes  2 Videos

According to the BBC, a UK team has been given permission to carry out the world's first full face transplant. And if ever there was a nation in need this procedure, it would be the United Kingdom. Cheers.

 


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Immigrants Sue Government

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Sep 25, 2006
Category: Political  Staff Pick!
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Middle East

733 Jokes  5 Videos

A group of Middle Eastern immigrants has sued the federal government, claiming their citizenship applications were intentionally slowed by agents.

Don't they know that waiting in line for government services without cause is the surest sign that they're already Americans?


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Walmart vs. iTunes movies

By: Baratunde Thurston (C)
Submitted: Sep 25, 2006
Category: News  Staff Pick!
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Walmart

86 Jokes  3 Videos

Walmart has threatened not to sell DVDs for movie studios that plan to with Apple's new movie service. The Arkansas-based retailer is worried about losing customers to a broadband digital download service? Has Walmart seen it's customers? They should be more worried about people gnawing on the DVD packaging in their stores!

 


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