video Comedy website Funny Or Die has produced a star-studded sketch comedy routine that features the cast of actors who previously portrayed US Presidents on Saturday Night Live. Jim Carrey's turn as Ronald Reagan and Dana Carvey's George Herbert Walker Bush recall a kinder, gentler, and perhaps even funnier era of SNL political mockery. The message behind the video? To help promote finance regulatory reform, and perhaps to remind viewers that much of the financial mess in which Obama finds himself, has been inherited from previous presidents. (more...)

slideshow Well the Summer of Death is officially coming to a close, and it looks like we've made it! There is an old saying that celebrity deaths come in groups of three, but this summer they've been coming in pairs; the deaths yesterday of Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne being the most recent in a summer that has been punctuated by famous funerals. After Dunne's death was announced the New York Times David Carr twittered: "Dominick Dunne wld be pissed he died on same day as Ted Kennedy and had to share...a piece of work, but fun as hell." (more...)

It's not often that somebody dying makes me feel young. But the death of Walter Cronkite has inspired me with an overwhelming feeling of youthfulness. You see, I really know next to nothing about Walter Cronkite.  He means nothing at all to me. Hearing that he's dead was like a looking at a well-painted apartment wall. You get the feeling that a good job might have been done but that's the limit of the emotional or intellectual reaction. (more...)