MTV Choose Or Lose is choosing to come to Laughing Liberally Tonight! Choose or Lose, the voter initiative will be covering tonight’s Laughing Liberally, a non-partisan political comedy show dedicated to saving democracy one laugh at a time. Tonight’s show will feature Lee Camp (Comedy Central), Katie Halper* (TAKE PART!), Charles Star (The Onion), Benari Poulten (Shoot the Messenger), Hilary Schwartz (Urban Hee Haw), Diana Saez (Washington Post) introducing Amanda Milstein (Living Liberally), hosted by Elon James White (The Black Comedy Project)

So and come out to the show @ The Tank @ 279 Church (between White & Franklin). Because if you choose to snooze, you lose. And on an issue of your choice (see below)

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The Washington Post’s 2005 Neologism contest results are old news, 3 years old, to be precise. But since I just had them forwarded to me by a friend, they are news to me. And thanks to the neologists, I have been able to diagnose a timeless problem I have confronted as a satirical comic and blogger. (I know, get over myself, it’s you, Katie, not your audience, or a “problem,” who needs a diagnosis etc., but whatever. And NO I’m not comparing myself to Steven Colbert or Lenny Bruce, they’re just amazing satirists. So shut up!) The word is

Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

I feel so validated, knowing there is a name to describe the sarcasm I have experienced. This neologism is so dead-on, I’ve invented my own: neologosis: a (n) diagnosis made by a neologism. Below are instances of sarcasm, when my satire was misunderstood. Here’s what the sarcastic critics are saying:

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