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Soon after graduating, John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97 (FM’s original Gossip Guy) formed modernhumorist.com, a well-known website for purveying inventive comedy that rarely fails to offend someone. The success of the site has made recent expansion into other media possible. First there were three books: My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush, Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was, and One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever. Following their literary success, the pair has moved into film, cutting deals...
From his prison cell, Hilal Aboud al-Bayati used to dream of U.S. troops overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime. A member of Iraq's Academy of Sciences and father of its national computer center, he was arrested in March 2000 at his University of Baghdad office and, in a secret trial, convicted of espionage. "All we discussed in prison was when the Americans were coming," says al-Bayati, who spent nearly three years behind bars with thousands of other political prisoners...
...John Aboud `95 and Michael Colton `97, the co-founders and editors of the website modernhumorist.com, putting irony on hold wasn’t really a choice. Aside from being stuck a continent away from their Brooklyn offices because of flight cancellations, the pair say they couldn’t imagine writing normal comedy immediately following the attacks...
...from genuine feeling. Well, if irony isn’t dead then it’s gravely wounded,” they wrote. “How can we be ironic when our fire squad in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has lost half its members?” Colton and Aboud asked for feedback from readers and the response was tremendous. “We got hundreds and hundreds of e-mails from people saying ‘we want to laugh again,’” Colton says. One particularly thoughtful message came from someone who worked...
...lyrics with the tag "Sung to the tune of..." But be honest: Were you aware that Mad still exists? Satire in print may have its problems--Spy folded in 1998--but irony online seems safe as long as obsessive jokesters have modems. "Most of America doesn't read," says Aboud. "But they do like glowing pictures...