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#EndorseThis: Funny Or Die Reveals Author Of That Terrible Tax Bill

#EndorseThis: Funny Or Die Reveals Author Of That Terrible Tax Bill

Does anyone really know who wr the Republican tax “reform” bill? When we finally saw a version of that monstrosity — just days before the Senate GOP caucus rammed it through without hearings — it looked like something scrawled on toilet paper with a crayon.

But the writers at Funny Or Die have their own view of the tax bill’s literary origin. It’s creepy enough to be plausible. And the concluding photograph of the Republicans celebrating at Mar-A-Lago is even scarier when you remember that these people aren’t just characters in a horror movie.

#EndorseThis: David Alan Grier Helps You Identify A Riot

#EndorseThis: David Alan Grier Helps You Identify A Riot

Actor David Alan Grier teamed with Funny or Die to shoot a PSA to help people distinguish a riot from a protest.

“TIKI torches and khaki pants: that’s not a riot. Looks like there’s a sale on at the local Tommy Bahama,” the former In Living Color star explained, referring to the Unite the Right neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. “But Black people: we are scary. And when we all get together then we’re probably planning to do something extra-scary: we’re planning to riot.”

#EndorseThis: Al Franken Says Climate Deniers Are Like Quack Doctors

#EndorseThis: Al Franken Says Climate Deniers Are Like Quack Doctors

Now that Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has decided that it’s safe to be funny again, he’s back with a vengeance. He’s published a new book that’s hilarious — and he’s making a series of videos on climate change. In the kickoff, he offers an insulting analogy between quack doctors and climate-denialists, both of whom would tell a very sick patient what he wants to hear instead of what he needs to hear.

With a weird David Letterman cameo as a bonus.

Just click.

#EndorseThis: America’s Awkward July 4 Break-Up With Britain, That Cad

#EndorseThis: America’s Awkward July 4 Break-Up With Britain, That Cad

On July 4, 1776, Britain learns that America really wants to be free — and the break-up as depicted by Funny Or Die does not go well. If the relationship between colonies and kingdom had been intimate and personal, the end might have been very awkward indeed. The dominating Brit doesn’t quite get it until his restless Yankee sweetheart hands him a goodbye note, also known as the “Declaration of Independence.”

And then there are all those other men — George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson — not to mention the French!