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Comedy Under Siege
Terrorism, anthrax and other hilarity: MH's complete war coverage



DECEMBER 2001

12.13-14.01
Elf at His Best: Part 1
Elf at his Best: Part 2
Four lifestyle articles, all about elves

12.12.01
Inside Osama's Cave Hideaway
What kept Tora Bora from getting boring

12.11.01
Bombing with Jai al-Leno
A morale boost from Afghanistan's "Minister of Monologue"

12.10.01
Stacey's Hot List 2001
Who's in, who's out, who's crossed me

12.07.01
Frodo Baggins’ Holiday Fun Time Sing-Song Hour
The long lost "Lord of the Rings" holiday special

12.06.01
In the Advent of Emergency
The holiday calendar for those who can’t be bothered

12.05.01
Elegant Coping Devices
Suffer through the blues with class and comfort

12.03.01
It's a Douglass and Ferncroft Holiday!
The gift baskets you give in a recession

NOVEMBER 2001

11.30.01
Attention Comedy Readers!
MH institutes new security procedures

11.28.01
A Bug's Death
Suicide notes from insects

11.27.01
Assessing the Impaq
Computer features to expect after the HP/Compaq merger

11.16.01
The Ultimate Harry Potter Guide
How to tell an Aragog from a Fizzing Whizbee

11.13.01
Made You Think!
Political cartoons through the ages

11.12.01
MH Office Webcam
See what's going on in our Brooklyn office right now

11.09.01
Live! Nude! Education!
Art school laid bare

OCTOBER 2001

10.01.01
Zoomy's Fun Page

More fun for ages nine to nine-and-a-half

10.02.01
Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was

Sneak preview of the new book

SEPTEMBER 2001

09.28.01
Fall TV Preview 2001

Set the TiVo, the new shows are here

09.10.01
Cruzsin’

Tom and Penelope get it in writing

09.07.01
Fall Movie Preview

The best of the season

09.05.01
Oh, Danny Boy (of Fourteen)

Clues to Little League’s big hoax were everywhere

09.04.01
Wish You Were Real

Places we didn't visit this summer

AUGUST 2001

08.24.01
Hello! Your Name Is...

How President Bush can connect with the common man

08.23.01
Welcome to the Self-Explanatorium!

The museum where you learn what you already know

08.21.01
Where Are They Now?

With real-time updates!

08.20.01
The Freakiest Geek

An interview with Judd Apatow, the producer of Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks

08.17.01
The Trolley’s Last Stop

What to expect on the final episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”

08.15.01
Letters from Rehab
Mariah and Ben address their problems

08.14.01
Lost It by a Hair

Al Gore catches votes in his beard

08.13.01
Celling Themselves

New career options for unemployed stem cells

08.10.01
Building the Perfect Salmon

Good news for genetically engineered fish

08.08.01
W: The Motion Picture

George W. Bush unveils his new campaign slogans

08.07.01
Serious Coin

Upcoming designs in the 50 State Quarters program

08.06.01
Muscle Over Mind

The comic book ad offer that's too good to be legal

JULY 2001

07.26.01
Ray of Hype

A guide to the Madonna Drowned World Tour 2001

07.25.01
New and Improved Office Talk
The water cooler just got cooler

07.24.01
Hungry Hungry History

An alternate world timeline

07.23.01
Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?

A paean to summer love

07.20.01
Quit Playin’ Games with My Liver

A Backstreet Boy’s letters from rehab

07.19.01
Fight for Your Right to Morphine

The Patient’s Bill of Rights revealed

07.18.01
The Intern and the Anchor
Taking a stand on the Dan Rather mystery

07.17.01
I Am a Bad eBayer

Responding to buyer feedback

07.16.01
Napster: The Motion Picture

Coming soon to a theatre near you

07.13.01
Robots’ Embarrassing Moments

Androids have feelings too

07.11.01
A.I.: The Robot Review

Critics agree: not enough screw-sorting

07.10.01
Are You a Computer?

Putting the Turing Test to the test

07.09.01
The Jim Morrison Simulatron

The Lizard King breaks on through to Flash technology

07.06.01
Bezos Barbecue Update

The announcement you’ve been waiting for, plus the return of the super-villains!

07.05.01
Ask An Ekspurt

Happy Fourth of July Fool's Day!

JUNE 2001

06.22.01
A Guide to Netiquette

Lesson 3: Business Communication

06.21.01
Sex (And Why Not To Have It)

A pamphlet from the National Association of Pornographers

06.19.01
Zoomy’s Fun Page

More fun for ages nine to nine-and-a-half

06.18.01
Tiny! Amazing! Wireless!

A sweet technological breakthrough

06.15.01
Mayor Dad

Father's Day Cards for Rudy Giuliani

06.14.01
“Jiving” With Your Teen

A publication from the Drug Enforcement Administration

06.12.01
The Box Set of the Year

Re-repackaging the hits

06.11.01
“Two Grappling Claws Up!” —David Manning

Sony’s experiment in artificial intelligence

06.08.01
What to Expect During Your Eye Surgery

Ten things to look forward to

06.07.01
Updiking the Ante

A disturbingly close reading

06.05.01
Who Let The Dog Out?

Esquire’s semi-factual profile of Lil’ Bow Wow

06.04.01
Colin Powell’s Schedule at a Glance

Rockin' with the Secretary of State

06.01.01
One Nation, Extra Cheese

The Foreigner's Guide to America, Chapter 3

MAY 2001

05.30.01
Zoomy's Fun Page

More fun for ages nine to nine-and-a-half!

05.29.01
The Best Life You’re Not Living

TV Guide as lifestyle mag

05.25.01
A Date Which Will Live in Falsity

How Pearl Harbor is being marketed in Japan

05.24.01
I Wanna Veto Bills All Nite
(and Party Every Day)

Bush picks the hits

05.22.01
Poems That Missed Their Deadlines

Rhymes that would’ve been timely, had they been done on time

05.21.01
One Nation, Extra Cheese
The Foreigner's Guide to America, Chapter 2

05.18.01
Rat, Racing

A hasty note from the city mouse

05.17.01
That's Smarts!

Fiction is stranger than truth

05.16.01
A Guide to Netiquette

Lesson 2: Message boards and chatrooms

05.15.01
A Guide to Netiquette

Lesson 1: E-mail

05.14.01
Unlock Your Inner Super Villain!

Nasty tactics for nasty times

05.11.01
Save America! Week: Part Four

Using the power of art to promote not touching one's self

05.10.01
Save America! Week: Part Three

Using the power of art to promote abstinence

05.09.01
Save America! Week: Part Two

Using the power of art to promote energy awareness

05.07.01
One Nation, Extra Cheese

The Foreigner's Guide to America

05.04.01
2001 Summer Movie Preview

Which flicks are worth your $8 $9 $10?

05.03.01
CyberUniting, Not CyberDividing

Dubya spams "Internet Al" Gore

05.01.01
Mauve Gloves and Manual Typewriters

Tom Wolfe contacts customer service



APRIL 2001

04.30.01
Survivor Spoilsports

Secrets revealed. Winners predicted. Pontiac Azteks subtly promoted.

04.27.01
Introducing the 1040W

Dubya's Texas-style tax plan

04.25.01
Boredom in the Court

A review of the "Puff Daddy" trial

04.24.01
Happy Birthday, Modern Humorist!

Celebrating a year of humor with our readership

04.20.01
"Purple Dragon Lunchbox, Mister President."

Tonight, on a very special West Wing

04.18.01
You Are the Weakest Catchphrase... Goodbye!

The hip new saying everyone's already tired of

04.17.01
Live from Hainan

The captives give sketch comedy a try

04.13.01
Zoomy's Fun Page

More fun for ages nine to nine-and-a-half!

04.12.01
Beckett's Lucky

The magazine of existential essentials

04.10.01
A Democratic Response to Barbra Streisand's Memo

04.06.01
The Breakfast Table

Joan Didion and a spambot slouch toward bewilderment

04.05.01
Genetic Un-gineering

Cloning turns out to be harder than we thought

04.03.01
All Our Base Are Belong To You

Co-opting the Internet's most annoying and inscrutable catch phrase

MARCH 2001

03.23.01
The Casting Department Has Spoken

A rejection letter from "Survivor III"

03.22.01
Oscar Ballot

How to win at least thirty bucks in your office pool

03.21.01
After the Cliché Rush

Journalism's heyday—from September 2000 to February 2001

03.16.01
The W is for Writer

The president discusses his new book and the literary life

03.15.01
The Unplanned Freefall

Tips for a safe landing from 35,000 feet

03.14.01
Spoiled

All the untruths about upcoming flicks

03.08.01
FAQ: Fraternities

Beer consumption and non-homoerotic paddling

03.07.01
My Heart Will Go On

What to do in case of a Vice-Presidential heart attack

03.02.01
CIA, CUL8R
Inside the CIA's secret chatroom

03.01.01
Cool and Unusual Punishment
Dubya unveils the Executionator

FEBRUARY 2001

02.28.01
TeenSlutWarehouse.com
The secret, sordid history

02.27.01
Form 1040, Schedule J. Lo
Puffy’s itemized expenses

02.23.01
All the President’s Mnemonics
How Dubya remembers who he hired

02.22.01
Pardon Me!
Rough Draft: Bill Clinton's New York Times defense

02.21.01
Can You Feel The Love Tonight?
Eminem and Elton take the Grammys

02.16.01
The Great Bezos BBQ Bash Update
Status report on our inevitable invitation

02.15.01
FAQ: The Bush Daughters
The lowdown on the President's progeny

02.14.01
FAQ: Love
Who wrote the book of love? We did.

02.13.01
It's An Honor Just to be Asked What It's Like Just to be Nominated
Reactions from this year's Oscar hopefuls

02.09.01
From the Bottom of my Sense of Humor

Valentine's Day e-cards

02.08.01
Valentine's Week: Over There

Harlequin does Europe

02.07.01
Paper Maniax
George Plimpton joins the XFL

02.02.01
Zoomy's Fun Page
Fun for ages nine to nine-and-a-half!

02.01.01
Dubya to Mumia: No Clemency!
Bush cracks down hard on the NBA's all-time leading scorer

 

JANUARY 2001

01.31.01
Atlas Shr
A glimpse into alternate universes where Ayn Rand's books are all 400 pages shorter

01.29.01
Exclusive! Census 2000 Results
Size up your competition

01.26.01
Didja Know?
Movie trivia for trivial movies

01.25.01
elcome to ashington
Other est ing pranks

01.24.01
FAQ: Super Bowl XXXV
Some people only read this for the commercials

01.23.01
George W. Bush's Wish List
What Amazon doesn't want you to see

01.22.01
And What's the Deal With These Observations?
The stand-up comic strip

01.19.01
My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush
Announcing Modern Humorist's first book, and a special inauguration checklist

01.18.01
The Ultimate Gadget
Give someone you love a Raspberry

01.17.01
Your Alumni Notes
News you can use

01.16.01
Good Lord of the Rings!
Is this really the new trailer?

01.15.01
Crunching Hillary's Numbers
How Simon & Schuster is getting its money's worth

01.12.01
IT's Here!
Nature of "IT/Ginger" revealed

01.12.01
Hit Me, My Lovely
A mystery incorporating the fifty most popular Internet search terms of the past year

01.11.01
"Dammit Dave" by David Mamet
The Modern Humorist Holy Tango of Drama, Special 2001 Edition

01.10.01
Have Miracle Ticket, Will Travel
Three months after the breakup, one Phish fan looks for a job

01.09.01
httpoop://
The world wide worst of 2000

01.08.01
Attitude of Gratitude
Our thank-you note generator


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