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- Despair Inc.â„¢: Problem Employees? It's Not You, It's Them
- Leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation," shows how to manage three types of problem employees. Whether you're dealing with the "perpetually offended employee," the "aggrieved superstar," or the "egomaniac," the answer is simple: they need to be grateful for what they have.
- Videos 2007-12-04
- Despair Inc.â„¢: Battle Bureaucracy with Fake "Crises" and Caffeine
- If your company is at all established and successful, it's probably already become a bloated, uninspiring workplace, says leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation." Here's how to take back your company by overcaffeinating your workers, limiting their contact with the outside world, and teaching them...
- Videos 2007-12-04
- Despair Inc.â„¢: Why Workplace "Communication" Is Overrated
- According to leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation," the source of workplace conflict is often misdiagnosed. What's seen as a simple "misunderstanding" or "failure to communicate" really runs much deeper: Your coworkers don't actually like you. Kersten helps clarify the situation by translating what they're...
- Videos 2007-12-04
- French satirical website goes into print
- Bakchich, a French satirical website, is making a mockery of the newspaper industry's dash for digital.Buoyed by strong French demand for parody in print, the online journal has taken the unusual step of launching a paper edition.As troubled US titles shift to online-only formats and media moguls such as...
- External links 2009-09-27
- Do You Prefer Dilbert or Deming?
- A couple of weeks ago, in the post "That Blogger Thinks You're Stupid" my BNET colleague Steve Tobak of the CEO Corner blog took umbrage when I suggested that reading Dilbert might help him understand how the business world appears to mere mortals. His response was: I've actually read...
- Blog posts 2008-12-20
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- The White House Scandal Brings Tons of Laughs As "Clinton Blues Screen Saver Satire" Swallows Up 750,000 Downloads from Online Sites
- WOONSOCKET, R.I.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 23, 1998--The broadcast of President Clinton's videotaped appearance before Kenneth Starr's grand jury helped ignite a new rush of interest in the Rhode Island Soft Systems RISS digital burlesque "Clinton Blues Screen Saver Satire." As the news of the White House carnal carnival intensified, requests for the...
- Research articles 1998-09-23
- Medialink: The Next JibJab Satire
- In 2004, the website JibJab.com presented its popular comic satire "This Land" -- which burned up computer screens across the country. After a successful run of short films, the site has created its latest -- a year-end review called "2-0-5".
- Research articles 2005-12-20
- Angry Robbins takes anti-Bush satire to Venice
- VENICE, Italy AFP ? US actor Tim Robbins took the film version of his ribald anti-Bush play "Embedded/Live" to the Venice film festival, while audiences delighted in Indian director Mira Nair's colourful adaptation of Thackeray's classic novel "Vanity Fair". Robbin's angry satire about the Bush administration's war in Iraq...
- Research articles 2004-09-05
- Trained in satire
- TRAINED IN SATIRE: Al Franken drew a laugh when he said to a youthful audience at a campaign stop in Minnesota: "Many of you were 11 years old when George Bush was elected. You don't remember having a president who was articulate or that the federal government can actually work....
- Research articles 2008-05-20
- Satire turning right: Fox News preps skein to skewer liberals.(Fox News Network L.L.C. Fox News Channel)
- Comedy Central has made a good living out of skewering the political right. Now Fox News Channel, a primary source of material for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, is teaming with the exec producer of "24" to try its hand at...
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- A dog-eat-dog world
- In this cartoon, two Al Qaeda members holed up in a cave get a scare of their own. As one terrorist holds a jar of poison, the other watches an Al Qaeda training video of the poison's effect on dogs, which brings People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA...
- Research articles 2004-11-05
- ABCs of IBS. (Prime Time).(Wednesday 9.30 (8:30 Central) premiers)(Brief Article)
- "Satire," said Lenny Bruce, "is tragedy plus time." That may not have been top of mind last year when ABC commissioned Wednesday 9.30 (8:30 Central), a sitcom that lampoons network TV originally called The Web, but it seems mo "Satire," said Lenny Bruce, "is...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- Seriously frothy: making fun of fashion.(some who are attempting to satirize the fashion industry include Lisa Armstrong in the book 'Front Row,' and Jay McInerney in 'Model Behavior')(Brief Article)
- AS EVEN the least clothes-minded of readers will have noticed, the fashion world has for years practised a kind of self-reflexive satire that puts it safely beyond the reach of parody. How, say, do you out-Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld with his powdered ponAS EVEN the least clothes-minded of...
- Research articles 1998-08-01
- Consumers Union: 'It's Always Christmas Time' For Credit Card Companies Thanks to Penalty Fees, Interest Rate Hikes, Misleading Contracts
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- At the height of the holiday shopping season, Consumers Union is releasing an animated satire highlighting the increasing number of financial pitfalls faced by credit card consumers. "It's Always Christmas Time WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- At the height of the holiday...
- Research articles 2005-12-06
- Tacoma, Wash., on Verge of Becoming Development Battleground. (Originated from The Tacoma News Tribune, Wash.)
- Sep. 28--"Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau could consider Tacoma for a new episode in his recent satire about neighbors opposed to the building of a Wal-Mart discount store. Sep. 28--"Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau could consider Tacoma for a new episode in his recent satire about neighbors ...
- Research articles 1994-09-27
- Grass roots scandal.
- Nov 7, 2001 Herald Sun ABIX via COMTEX -- A Victorian pensioner, Bridget Groves, claims that the ABC "poached" her idea. In 1990 Groves submitted a synopsis to the ABC for a new political satire she called "Grass Roots." Groves was told that,...
- Research articles 2001-11-06
- In the insiders' club, the joke's on members
- It's hard not to write satire," mused the ancient Roman philosopher Juvenal. Indeed so. Our times cry out for satire. But then we would need great satirists for the job and, at the moment, there appears to be no Juvenal or Jonathan Swift around who's up to the task. The...
- Research articles 1997-05-26
- World's Funniest Fake High Tech Ads
- It's time for your Sales Machine Friday dose of funny sales videos. Today we're paying homage to a true art-form -- the fake high tech ad. High tech companies spend billions of dollars every year hyping their products, making them excellent fodder for satire. I checked out about 100 of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Patriot Act: "THE COLBERT REPORT"
- A footnote to those year-in-review roundups from 2005: Let's hand a laurel to Brooks Brothers, the upscale clothier, for its contribution to political satire. I'm talking about those natty suits and ties worn according to program credits by Stephen Colbert in the inspired Comedy Central satire The Colbert Report, which...
- Research articles 2006-01-27
- "A World Away from His People": James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk and the Indian Historical Novel
- In his landmark article "The Indian Historical Novel," unique in its treatment of Indian historical fiction as a distinct genre, Alan Velie outlines the various narrative, argumentative, and political categories under which historical fiction can be classified.1 Borrowing from Hayden White's Metahistory, Velie adopts four categories of narrative sequence: romance,...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
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