Comedian Michael Ian Black has undertaken a brand new project: Writing a book about politics with none other than Meghan McCain. Yeah, I know, right? Apparently, the liberal comic and the Republican pundit are friends, essentially acting as the human equivalent of Pan-Kun and James.

This weekend at a stand-up show in Ohio, things got decidedly unfunny when an audience member told Michael Ian Black that saying you like President Obama is like saying “Heil Hitler.” Black went off on the audience member, yelling at him until he left. He later though, wrote an interesting blog post about the situation and the problems with using Hitler in political discussions. All due respect to Stewart and Colbert, but it’s intriguing how good non-political comedians sometimes are at analyzing the level of political discourse in this country.

Nick Douglas‘ Twitter Wit is a compendium of what he bills as “the funniest tweets of all time,” so the top five from those should be hi-larious. Right? Eh, you can decide that for yourself, but the point is, Douglas and publisher Harper Collins picked their five favorite Tweets from the book for a new promotion, which is about as un-Twitter as it gets: Inviting people to make a video based on one of those tweets. The filming! The editing! The uploading! Geesh, 140 characters never sounded so time-consuming.