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Detractors of what may seem like a romanticized argument in favor of airing an offensive episode might point to the fact that people associated with the creators of the show were under threat, or that the possibility of dying for being a humorist is unfair. But these people miss the fact that the very exercise of free speech meets with danger—the danger that one will be oppressed by some influence, whether vigilante violence or state power. The moment when we are unwilling to protect the rights of our fellow because of possible violence against him or those...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Drawing Muhammad | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

Fernández, born in Buenos Aires in 1874, worked on this novel between 1925 and 1938. A philosopher, humorist, writer and poet, he started “The Museum of Eterna’s Novel” when he was about fifty and rewrote it five times before his death. Fernández was very concerned about writing, but not nearly as concerned about publishing his own work...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fernández Creates a Literary Wonderland in ‘Museum’ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...once wrote that the humorist is the most endangered species we have. Is that still true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Hodgman also commented that he used to think that “it was not okay to be funny...I never considered myself to be a humorist or a comic writer… until the Daily Show,” he said...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG | Title: Boston Book Festival a Nerd Paradise | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Hodgman also commented that he used to think that “it was not okay to be funny...I never considered myself to be a humorist or a comic writer… until the Daily Show,” he said...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG | Title: Boston Book Festival a Nerd Paradise | 10/25/2009 | See Source »

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