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The Tina Fey (Vice) Presidency

As has been rumored all of last week, the incomparable Tina Fey is indeed on SNL again, this time as Sarah Palin. This clip with Amy Poehler as usual playing Hillary Clinton, introduces us to the new season of Saturday Night Live. These two women, who recently starred in a movie called “Baby Mama” together, have got to be the funniest women in the country. Tina Fey is destined to play this role at least as long as Palin is in the national spotlight. In fact, I think she could even be a dupe for the latter if she, cough, becomes our president in a heartbeat.

Thank you, Lorne, for keeping us sane in these crazy times.

Of bosons and hadrons

By now, I am sure you have heard that the largest particle accelerator ever built is about to go live. On September 10, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will attempt to circulate a beam through the 17 mile circular tunnel beneath the Franco-Swiss border. The first collisions are planned for late October when it will be officially unveiled.

Amidst doomsday reports of the possibility of a black hole being created by this collider and thus gobbling up the planet we call home, the physicists in the thick of things are working on improving their improv skills. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on how the CERN physicists are honing their communication skills by taking lessons in improvisational comedy. Some of the gems coming out of this meeting of minds with above average IQs:

She: “Do my bosons give you a hadron?”

“Two protons walk into a black hole.” (end of joke)

“A neutron walks into a bar and asks how much the drinks cost. The bartender replies, ‘For you, no charge.’ ”

Demetri Martin on Flipcharts (and Art)

I have never heard of this guy before but he’s sure funny as hell:



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