Both ballers and shot-callers have been hit hard by the recession. As we learned last week, rapper Slim Thug had to make some tough choices about who gets dropped from the posse and whether to hit the strip club...for dinner.

Remember the good old days when "Mo' Money" meant "Mo' Problems?" Try telling that to a proud rapper who downgraded his posse thanks to the recession. 

Cristal has become Boone's Farm, there's a 60% reduction in video hos,...

Weed? Slave-whipping Wii games? Naps? John Oliver's penis?

We wouldn't think any of these things would be a distraction in The Daily Show offices. That would imply the correspondents are at work.

Please, we're begging you....

So, Pull My Finger was the first fart noise app to hit big, but then iFart came along and took away the cheese-cutting crown. Now, they are in a legal battle over who tooted first, with one man comparing himself to Jackie...

Single payer Canada-style? Nope. They perform surgery at the post office.

Doctors as government employees a la England? Uh-uh. They think the heart is shaped like the one doodled on pre-teen notebooks, and think a man's...

Wyatt Cenac risks his life to explain how Congressional Republicans are exactly the same as the protesters in the streets of Tehran. In fact, the Iranians supporting Mousavi are putting their lives on the line in solidarity...

Stewart & Co. were off this week, but they left behind a little web video to tide us over.

So, how would the cast survive a total economic and soclai collapse?

By either doing what they do now, nothing. (And getting paid for...

The evidence: both married hot lawyers, have cute daughters, Stevie Wonder personally sang for them, old black guys do Shakespeare in their living rooms, and they're both set up to run for eight seasons.

We always saw Obama...

Right wing demagogues have been throwing around the "S" word a lot to describe the Obama administration's attempts to fix the economy. No not socialism, well yeah socialism, but also Sweden. 

Could America turn into that...

Cenac was nearly sucked into socialism by its free health care, statuesque blondes giving free back rubs, tiny meatballs, solvent banks and random members of ABBA walking the stunning snowy streets. The devil puts on a good...

Europeans reneged on the deal that if we gave them Obama, they would stop hating us.

As Cenac succinctly puts it, "the world sucks."

When selecting a family parish, many considerations must be taken into account. Are the services convenient to attend? Can they get us in-and-out in under an hour? How close are they to a bowl of egg drop soup? 

And most...