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Everyone loves Amy. Except me and one brave female Facebook friend of mine, that is. To my friend’s credit, she boldly went where no thirty-ish woman dare go in social media. Her post was simple: “Amy Schumer isn’t funny.” Gasp! A millennial woman who doesn’t find everyone’s It-Girl appealing?! Doesn’t she know it is blasphemous to disavow allegiance to the Holy Trinity of Chickdom: Lena, Kim and Amy? (Sorry, Caitlyn, you aren’t there yet. Get in line behind Hedwig.) The comments rolled in slowly. Some friends expressed shock. Others dared to agree. “Her Apollo show wasn’t even funny!” Thank God,...

SO, apparently, it’s not just late night and other comedians that have trouble goofing on Obama: Obama himself has an issue Barack Obama laughs at but not with President Barack Obama is very smart (as he could tell you). He is also very funny (and the first to laugh at his own jokes). He is a master of comic timing, has an appealing sense of the absurdities of his chosen profession and an unerring ear for the withering one-liner. As long as the subject is someone else. When it comes to the sine qua non of political humor — devastating...

Dressed in a slick leather jacket and armed with a back-pocket bottle of Jack Daniels, executive producer and creator of the hit cartoon “Family Guy,” Seth MacFarlane brought the house down last night during his talk at Memorial Auditorium. Speaking in front of a packed crowd of students and community members — one of whom pointed out that MacFarlane’s sister used to baby sit her years ago in Connecticut — MacFarlane touched on his show’s recent rivalry with Comedy Central’s "South Park," as well as his ongoing battle with government and network censors...