Modern art was elitist, so Komar and Melamid asked people what they wanted. Then they painted it — by the numbers.

Once just a pack of Ivy League smartasses, the Harvard Lampoon is now the stepping stone to comedy careers.

On the verge of Infinite Jest, DFW took a cruise. His witty, acerbic, heartfelt account bore all the brilliance of his novels.

Laid back and lampooning the Sixties and himself, R. Crumb’s creation keeps on truckin’.

From radio’s heyday to SNL and beyond, audiences loved the gentle mockery of Bob and Ray.

Nashville had plenty of Hanks and Patsys, but there was only one Roger Miller.

TV was “the boob tube” but Steve Allen brought intelligence, style, and a wacky wit that inspired generations.

Tongue in cheek and baton in hand, Peter Schickle poked fun at classical music and the justly forgotten P.D.Q. Bach.

Madison Avenue had statistics and selling points but one Mad Man dared to think different.

Denied government aid for a water project, Kinney, MN (pop. 325) and its “little old lady” mayor got a radical idea.

Death may be final but mocking the Grim Reaper is an old American tradition

At the end of the Freud-filled 1920s, James Thurber and E.B. White launched their careers with a silly question and a spoof.

You may think football a grim sport, but meet Alex Karras, "a clown with a fine sense of timing." And, BTW, Hitler's husband.

No verse was too light, no rhyme was too impossible for Ogden Nash.

“Network" did not predict populist anger -- it foresaw a network using anger to boost ratings. Sound familiar?

Strikeouts?  Politics?  Drugs?  Transcendental Meditation?  Ask the "Spaceman," still pitching in his late 60s.  All for the love of the game.