Meet Jeremy Essig. Jeremy is a full time comedian from St. Louis, MO. His comedy has been labeled “intelligent cynicism.” He’s appeared on NPR many times, and if that doesn’t make you a smart comedian, I don’t know what does. His Twitter followers include Members, Senators and Mayors on both sides of …

Spirit Airlines is making oil-spill jokes in online and e-mail promotions.  [too soon?]

It wasn’t even close. Once again, the standup routines of Barack Obama and then Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night demonstrated that the most dangerous job in comedy is following the president of the United States—especially when the latter has better writers. [trounces] And who exactly …

Big ups to Team Nora over at Last Call. SHOT . . . "I’ve reached out to him several times, and I’m done" — RNC chair Michael Steele, on Obama (3/28). . . . CHASER "I appreciate the president giving me a shout out. I’ve given him a few over …

Top 10 April Fools’ work pranks “When determining whether a prank is a good idea on April Fools’ Day, employees should consider the worst case scenario of their joke. Will his or her joke simply result in a laugh from fellow co-workers? Or could anybody, including you, lose their job?” …