;

FRI, SAT, SUN, February 24, 25, 26, 2012

Michelle Obama caught flack from Republicans for taking her sixteenth  vacation, spending the Presidents Day Weekend skiing with her girls in Vail.  But she did exercise one official duty by placing a wreath on the tomb of Spider Savitch.

Under the Department of Homeland Security’s new “friendly flyer” program, those who use the airlines twice a month or more may submit personal info in advance to avoid being searched.  More than three times a month, they qualify for a free pre-flight cocktail with the pilot.

Fans want Israel to postpone attacking Iran until Madonna performs there in May.  This is getting a little out-of-hand.  Last April, they tried to delay major league baseball’s opening day until she had dated all of the Yankees.

Los Angeles beach-goers were stunned when County officials banned dog-walking, alcoholic drinks, tobacco use and Frisbee or football tossing.  Exempt from the ban are objects one might find already there like medical waste, used condoms, plastic bottles, syringes, shopping carts. . .

Scientists in Denmark have developed test tube hamburgers made from bovine stem cells.  Rick Santorum immediately condemned them telling reporters that “if God had intended humans to create hamburgers he would have made Ronald McDonald a pope by now.”

Click here to add theme music to your reading experience...

THE LAUGH MAKERS: A Leonard Maltin "Top 20" Year End Pick!

DOLORES HOPE MEDLEY

DOLORES HOPE "Silver Bells" (with Bob)

BOB HOPE'S 1983 U.S. COLLEGE CAMPUS TOUR: Your Alma Mater Here?


"Having spent twenty years writing for the indefatigable Bob Hope, and traveling all over the world, Bob Mills is well qualified to salute the famous corps of gag men who kept the comedian knee-deep in jokes. These first-hand recollections summon up the final phase of Hope’s career—and the end of the trail for an entire brand of show business."

http://www.leonardmaltin.com/2009YearEndBookSurvey.htm

Even Animals Love "THE YouTube WORLDWIDE NEWS"!


THE LAUGH MAKERS is now on KINDLE! (And Kindle equipped devices)

Download THE LAUGH MAKERS to your Kindle within one minute (for $2.99) by clicking on this link:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0041D9EPO

And if you're not yet a Kindle owner, when you purchase your new lower-priced Kindle with a capacity of 3500 books, be sure to sign up for our daily blog so you won't miss one issue of the web's most entertaining and insightful comments on the day's events... or a single serialized installment of THE LAUGH MAKERS. Order your Kindle today!


WakiLeaks: History Declassified 2000 (Vol. One) is now available on Kindle for $2.99

Compiled from Bob's newsletter "Funnyside Up" published in 2000. This is a yuck and chuckle-filled stroll down memory lane to a time before the Bush administration had inflicted its damage -- a time before the search for WMDs and Osama bin Laden. See what we were laughing at back then, who was in the news and who had yet to enter rehab -- which NFL stars had yet to do time in the Gray Bar Hotel.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IZLXIQ