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Merv:Sara, can I have my shirt? I’ve got a lunch date with the rabbi of Dublin.Sara:Mervyn, you came all the way to Queen Anne’s Gate. Please sit a minute.Tess:Sit down, Merv. I’ll get your shirt. Win…
Contributor:
Wendy Wasserstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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Bigdickus:Where’s he going? [shouting at an aide who has just exited] Where do you think you’re going?!Prostitutus:He thinks he’s going to baby-sit.Bigdickus:Babysitting? I sent him to kill her and he…
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Anat Gov
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Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Date:
2001
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From The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure, a comic strip history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the end of the twentieth century.
Contributor:
Stan Mack
Places:
Woodstock, United States of America
Date:
1999
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This text was produced under Ágai’s pseudonym, Mokany Berczi.
Contributor:
Adolf Ágai
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1892
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Over its more than fifty-two years of publication, Mad Magazine skewered everyone from politicians to movie stars, with a particular dedication to rooting out hypocrisy. Here it spoofs its own genre…
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Harvey Kurtzman
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1953
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L’il Abner, set in the fictional town of Dogpatch in Kentucky, presented a stereotyped view of the U.S. South. But its trenchant satire targeted political and social issues, and popular culture. Here…
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Al Capp
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1966
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Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…
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René Goscinny
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Paris, France
Date:
1959
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When breakfast was over, I had to go to the synagogue, rain or shine, for it was Saturday morning. I used to sit next to Bernard and Simon. We would wear our skull caps and whisper to each other…
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Dannie Abse
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1954
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[Leidental’s room. Evening. Leidental. One of his fingers is bandaged.]Leidental:[To himself.] At eight fifteen I felt I cannot any more with myself. I had: regulation misery, pain to top…
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Hanoch Levin
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1972
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Before the custodians of the purity of the Hebrew language begin to tear their hair out in protest of the so-called indecent acts committed herein, in full view, upon the…
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Dan Ben-Amotz, Netiva Ben-Yehuda
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1972