Sitemap - 2023 - The American Bystander's Viral Load

Substack, Nazis, and The National Lampoon

Joy Among the Tombstones

Burning Answers #6: All-in for AI

Burning Answers, #5

Burning Questions #4

A Few Thoughts on "Now and Then"

Give Us a King, We Want One Now

Burning Answers #3

Burning Answers #2

I've Got the Golden Hemorrhoids

Burning Answers #1

Got questions? I GOT ANSWERS

Pretty Much Everybody in This Story Ends Up Dead

Cigarman!

A Hole in the Family

Horrible Stuff in Eli's Temple

Thinking About the Roman Empire

A Letter to the Commish

"We're on a Mission from God."

How I Lost The Bible Contest

Invite your friends to read us!

Come hang out in our new store!

Understated Elegance [braapp!]

We’re Doin’ Fantasy Football!

HERE'S YOUR LINK: It's time for The Cartoonists' Annual PDF!

A brief pause in the Great Sunday Debates…

The "Kvetch" Abides

The Most Disturbing Story In the Whole Freaking Bible

The Great Sunday Debate: What's the funniest kid's show?

What happens when a baby eats an entire pint of blueberries?

The Great Sunday Debate: What’s your favorite (dare we say The Best) sitcom?

"Fuck Him And Alexander"

Samson Dies At the End

The Great Sunday Debate: You've invited friends over for a movie. What comedy are you making them watch?

Tomorrow Never Knows

Gruesome Deaths We Came Up With

The Great Sunday Debate: What's the best mockumentary of all time?

Quickie from #26

Samson Before Delilah

The Great Sunday Debate: What's Your Favorite Sketch Comedy Show?

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Get Up Offa That Thing

The Great Sunday Debate: What's your favorite screwball comedy?

Is the 'stack half full, or half empty?

It's Slaughtering Time!

The Great Sunday Debate: What's the best stand-up routine of all time?

Stop the Presses!

Pop Music = Comedy, and vice versa

Break On Through to the Other Side

Chapters 1-3 of Jack Handey's new novel, "Escape From Hawaii"

Rare book/rara avis

The Recipe That Saved My Life

The Song of Deborah

A Memo from The Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

Bystander Talks with…Shary Flenniken, part 2

From our Cartoonists' Annual: Charley Barsotti

Hot Writer Digest

How Low Can You Sink?

Shh...it's a secret sale on the 'stack

"D. Watson: An Introduction"

Jephtah, What a Treasure Hadst Thou!

Conversation: Shary Flenniken, part 1

The Showgirl

Introducing Bystander Academy

Jokes! Jokes! Jokes!

Interview with Lance Hansen

That's Entertainment

Bystander #25 in PDF!

The Making of a Basketball Legend

An Oral History of the Fake Moon Landing

A poll: Has a joke ever changed your mind?

Do Not Smoke Our Magazine

Preview from #25

Adam & Eve & Giraffes & Dolphins

Ellis Weiner chimes in on Sick humor, Lampoon, etc

At the Center of Everything

Sick Humor: What It Was, Where It Went

Screaming is My Thing

Sam Gross, 1933-2023

Human Society Defensively Explained to Aliens

A Letter From Choupette Lagerfeld

Rahab, Prostitute of Jericho

Simon Rich's Endangered Beetle

Looking for Mr. Wang

Crosspost from The Dandy's Noose

The Family Friendly Humor Site

A Day in The Life of a Surrealist

The Old Testament's Two Biggest Idiots

Ron Hauge on Working at Ren & Stimpy

Does it slap?

The Avengers 1930s

No time! No time!

The Salacious Story of Judah and Tamar

The Sensational Ritz Brothers

Hey! We went viral!

Comedy, One Word at a Time

Nobody Dies They Just Get Bigger

Jack Handey: "My Actions During the Martian Invasion"

Burn, Baby, Burn!

We need one more team!

From the Archives: The Park

Your Guide to Fantasy Baseball

Movies with Mike G.: "The Lavender Hill Mob"

A Bad Day for Zebrafish

Where Your Subscription Dollar Went

Let's make The Oscars a bit more interesting

Announcing The American Bystander's Viral League: Baseball Edition

Movies with Mike G: "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"

Esther, Haman, Mordechai, and all the rest

Life and Times for Monday, 3.6.23

Bystander Reads: Shalom Aleichem

Welcome to Bom-PAY-eee?, Population: Me

Movies with Mike G: "Everything You Always Wanted…"

DerBert

Sharing the Secret of 251

To Tell The Truth

From the Archives: Ed Subitzky

Capitol Hill, Seattle, 1994-95

Movies with Mike G: "Simon"

Wildlife of New York

Life & Times for Monday, Feb. 19, 2023

Here's Your PDF of Issue 24

Question: Comedy and Chronic Illness

Racquel Welch, 1940-2023

Movies with Mike G.: "10"

I Am LaughterBoss

Queen Elizabeth for Old Spice

John Robie, the notorious "Cat"

Know Your Bystanders: Michael Pershan

Know Your Bystanders: Joe Keohane

Through a Monocle, Lightly

My Most Embarrassing Moment

Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!!

Let the Capitalism begin!

Versions of Other Guys

Weasel Question Time #3: What's the Deal with Freshman?

Larry the Torah Guy

Weasel Question Time #2: TV or Not TV?

America's First Successful Humor Magazine

Weasel Question Time #1

My Good Deeds, Ranked