Is it time for end-of-the-year retrospectives already? It is when you're Bill Maher and you're headed to hiatus. This season's Real Time didn't have the can't-miss juice of the Obama election cycle, but how could it?...

As of late, South Carolina has been a hotbed for comedic schadenfreude, moving it past Illinois on the "most ridiculous state" depth chart. The Palmetto State has it all: A black supporter of a Confederate holiday, the high...

Turns out, everyone's favorite bed-hopping crank is a romantic. Bill Maher thinks that Mark Sanford is different than all the other sex scandal-plagues politicos because the big lug is truly in love. He has a point. Sanford...

Even GOPers like Mark Sanford begging God for forgiveness on their knees do it... Why wouldn't God offer absolution? Sex between a sitting governor using taxpayer ducats to fly to South America for a spicy tryst with his...

When it comes to lowering journalistic standards to land a whale of an adulterous, Appalachian-Tail-hiking, lovestruck, Republican, Latino-loving Governor, there's only the one golden rule that Walter Cronkite lived by.

No...

Colbert is no friend of lefty yakker Keith Olbermann. In fact, he will give a "stroke job" or a "junk buffing" or even a "taint tango" to anyone who can ensure Colbert will be named "Worst...Person...in the Worrrrllllddddd....

All things being equal, right about now, if we were Gov. Sanford...

We'd enjoy the comic release, err, relief.