Poor Donald! Inaug’ral arenas
Can’t lure stars. (Time to laugh like hyenas.)
Entertainer-Trump’s failed.
Even B-Street Band’s bailed!
Here’s my modest proposal: Subpoenas!
Archive for the ‘Entertainment Humor’ Category
Trump’s D-List Inaugural (Limerick)
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017A Tale Of Two Kims (Limerick)
Monday, December 19th, 2011It’s hard not to laugh at the confusion caused by Kim Jong-il’s demise:
Yes, in the wake of the passing of Kim Jong Il, some Twitter users seemingly believe that the female rapper Lil’ Kim had died instead.
On Twitter, amusing confusion—
Lil’ Kim devotees — wrong conclusion.
Kim Jong-il’s death was met
With deep shock and regret.
Seem’s Kim’s music can cause mass delusion.
Sarah Palin Edict: Reality show contestants without talent must not compete … unless their last name is Palin.
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Once again, Sarah Palin shows she has no sense of shame or irony. In her new book America By Heart, the woman has the audacity to criticize American Idol singers as “talent-deprived” contestants who suffer from “the cult of self-esteem.” Now mind you, this is the very same woman whose talentless daughter Bristol has been making a spectacle of herself on Dancing With The Stars.
And that brings me to my latest limerick:
There’s a cult of no-talent, rants Palin.
How ironic’s her Idol show railin’!
With a daughter whose dancing
Is talentless prancing,
What’s next? Bristol’s Idol show wailin’?
(I have lots more Sarah Palin humor here.)
Now Playing On My Other Blog
Saturday, February 6th, 2010It’s the biggest football weekend of the year. Which is why I have a really bad case of the Super Bowl blues on my other blog.
Now Playing On My Other Blog
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010If you’d like a break from politics, my other (general humor) blog has a pair of limericks about the Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, NBC controversy and about Simon Cowell’s decision to leave American Idol.
A Play About Vibrators?
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Every so often, I review a Broadway play on my other blog. My latest is a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room or the vibrator play. If you live in New York City or plan to be there in the next couple of months, I highly recommend it, especially if you’re a feminist.
Do I need to add that Ruhl’s play inspired a limerick?
Larry King and Carrie Prejean — Not Headed To The Altar
Thursday, November 12th, 2009I can’t decide what’s funnier:
a: Carrie Prejean’s finding Larry “King Of Softballs” King too tough and “inappropriate” an interviewer during her appearance to promote her book (and dodge discussing her lawsuit and sex tape); or
b: Carrie Prejean’s inability to properly storm off a set.
Note To Beauty Pageant Coaches: Must add storming-off-tv-set etiquette to your coaching regimen.
Here’s the video and here’s my limerick:
Larry King and Carrie Prejean — Not Headed To The Altar
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There once was a wingnut named Carrie
Who got angry at talk show host Larry.
So she yanked off her mike,
Then just sat there on strike.
But when storming off sets, must not tarry.
Heinous Heenes?
Monday, October 19th, 2009Last week I managed to avoid the Balloon Boy media frenzy. Reality show participants with an endangered child on an AWOL helium balloon? Yeah … right. Then again, I don’t spend my time watching kids being rescued from wells either.
In any event, I’m not surprised that Wife Swap participants (and reality TV series pitchers) Richard and Mayumi Heene may be arrested for “concocting a publicity stunt by pretending that their young son [Falcon] had climbed aboard a homemade helium balloon and was hurtling through the skies above Fort Collins, Colo.”
The Heenes’ lawyer David Lane expects the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office to file charges this week, and Denver man Robert Thomas says Richard Heene gave him advance word of a media stunt.
And that brings me to my latest limerick:
Heinous Heenes?
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Two publicity mongers named Heene
Are accused of a hoax quite obscene:
Claimed their wayward balloon
Held their child. Opportune
For a shot at “reality” green.
Update: I’ve heard the Heenes’ name pronounced three different ways, two of which screw up my rhyme scheme. Since I’m not sure which pronunciation is correct, I guess I’ll leave my limerick up as written.
Public Figures Behaving Badly
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Here’s the transcript of the Joe Wilson (R-SC) Congressional Resolution that would reprimand him for his “You lie!” outburst at Obama during last week’s joint session of Congress.
And speaking of badly behaved public figures, I’ve written an Ode To Incivility on my other blog. It features the 3 W’s — Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams.
UPDATE: The Resolution rebuking Joe Wilson passed 240 to 179. Called a “resolution of disapproval,” it was supported by only seven Republicans and opposed by twelve Democrats.
Ode To Randi “Queen of Obscene” Rhodes
Friday, April 4th, 2008As you surely know by now, Air America host Randi Rhodes has been suspended for calling both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton “whores” and describing Hillary with more f-words than I could manage to count in this clip of her performance. Just one question: This was supposed to be comedy?
Ode To Randi “Queen of Obscene” Rhodes
By Madeleine Begun Kane
That performance by Randi ain’t pretty.
Calling Hill’ry a whore’s hardly witty.
Hurling f-bombs galore
About Hill. What a bore!
She’s suspended? This blog has no pity.[tags]Randi Rhodes, Air America Radio, Randi’s F-words, Senator Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Rhodes Suspension, Tasteless Humor, Media Humor, Presidential Campaign Verse[/tags]
Nixing The Chicks (Haiku)
Monday, October 30th, 2006Nixing the Chicks
By Madeleine Begun Kane
NBC nixes
Ad for Dixie Chicks movie.
Flips bird at fairness.
(The song parody I wrote back in 2003 about the Dixie Chicks being treated like traitors is here.) [tags]Country Music, Dixie Chicks, Documentary, Patriotism Humor, NBC Ads, Censorship[/tags]
Irony Has At Least Seven More Lives
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Once again, the media is debating the purported death of irony. Nine-eleven killed it the last time, and this year’s culprit is Barack Obama. Lucky for humorists (and their readers), irony apparently has a cat-like nine lives:
Irony Has At Least Seven More Lives
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Obama’s election’s to blame
For irony’s death, many claim.
Is there nothing to mock?
To satirically knock?
Spoof the press and the pundits — I’m game.
And there’s always the cowardly Dems,
And obstreperous GOP “gems,”
Greedy banks, AIG,
CEOs, bad TV.
Start lampooning — no haws and no hems.
Tags: AIG, Banks, CEOs, Death Of Irony, GOP, Greed, Humor, Press, Pundits, Satire, Television, Writing
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