Okay, smart cookies: Send us humor we can eat. Well, photos of humor we can eat. Every weekend for almost 19 years, the Style Invitational — The Washington Post’s weekly humor/wordplay contest — has brought readers smart, irreverent wit both highbrow and lowbrow, from haughty to potty. And this week, as the holiday baking season gets underway, we’re hungering for more than the Invite’s usual lists of puns and one-liners: We want something we can sink our teeth into. This week: Cleverly depict a person, event or phenomenon of the 21st century — real history as well as scenes from movies, books, videos, etc. — using edible materials, and send us a photo of your creation. All visible parts of your entry, except a backdrop and a base, must be made of something edible — and we mean people-edible, not your-destructive-dog-edible. (On the other hand, it doesn’t have to be tasty; we’re not eating your photo.) If you’re using a piece of produce or a nut, you don’t have to peel it. Read full article > >

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Week 945: Laugh-baked ideas — the Style Invitational edible-art contest

The Hermanator is now the hunted. Herman Cain, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate turned frontrunner, has done just about everything wrong since news broke Sunday night that his former employer had paid two women to settle sexual harassment complaints against him. Cain denied it. He said the women didn’t understand his humor . He said his accusers fabricated the charges. He said he couldn’t remember the details, then suddenly he could . He said he had no knowledge of the settlement, then suddenly recalled some details, which turned out to be vastly understated. He publicly predicted more allegations would surface. He blamed his opponents, he howled about racism, and he accused the media and the entire city of Washington of trying to do him in. Read full article > >

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People in Louisiana still come out to cheer for Edwin Edwards, the dryly humorous, unapologetically corrupt former governor, but they are electing a different sort of politician.

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Edwin Edwards Is Still Famous, but Louisiana Politics Has Moved On

How do you discover your inner goofball? For Will Ferrell, the eu­reka moment came relatively late, years after the other boys had learned the joys of disrupting class. He was a high school senior, a conscientious student and a jock (basketball captain, baseball player, kicker on the football team), much too popular and well adjusted to crave class-clown validation. But then a friend asked him and a buddy to work up some shtick for the morning P.A. announcements to help sell Class of ’85 T-shirts. Read full article > >

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For months, Herman Cain languished on the margins of the Republican presidential campaign. But in the past few weeks, something happened that even Cain did not see coming. He became a front-runner for the nomination. The Atlanta businessman has shot up in the polls and become a ubiquitous presence on national television. His “9-9-9” plan to reform the tax code has become a household term. His sense of humor and upbeat style have injected a bit of light into a campaign that has centered on the gloom of the economy. Read full article > >

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The broader economy may still be in a funk, but a bazaar in a fairy tale Middle East — temporarily located in Bethesda — is doing brisk business in invisible sesame cakes. At the start of “Aladdin’s Luck,” Imagination Stage’s lively, good-humored season opener, an excitable baker in a yellow silk robe (Michael Glenn) scurries into view with a basket of the aforementioned delicacies. He’s determined to keep them safe from that scalawag Aladdin, but he generously offers a cake or two to young theatergoers. Read full article > >

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Imagination Stage’s ‘Aladdin’s Luck’ is a treasure for kids

The Kennedy Center is rolling out the red-carpet announcements of who will be feting Will Ferrell when he receives the 14th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor next month. Among those on hand to celebrate — and likely roast — Ferrell will be entertainers Conan O’Brien, Paul Rudd, Jack Black, John C. Reilly and Larry King, as well as “Saturday Night Live” colleagues Lorne Michaels (recipient of the 2004 Twain Prize), Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon and Ferrell’s writing partner/ FunnyorDie.com co-founder, Adam McKay, the center announced today. Read full article > >

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At least the alleged hacker had a sense of humor: A closeup photo of a man’s bulging boxer-briefs was posted on New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account Saturday, followed by another tweet that read, “FB hacked.” Weiner sent an email…

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When I was the judge of a weekly newspaper humor contest in the 1990s, part of my job was to give readers an example of a potentially winning entry for each new competition. You might think that I’d be the best person to come up with jokes that would impress the judge, who was me. But I wasn’t. Week after week, the eventual winning entry was better than my example had been. One week, for instance, the contest was to write a riddle that is answered by a painful pun on someone’s name. My example was: Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Comedy of errors

When I was the judge of a weekly newspaper humor contest in the 1990s, part of my job was to give readers an example of a potentially winning entry for each new competition. You might think that I’d be the best person to come up with jokes that would impress the judge, who was me. But I wasn’t. Week after week, the eventual winning entry was better than my example had been. One week, for instance, the contest was to write a riddle that is answered by a painful pun on someone’s name. My example was: Read full article > >

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He’s just directed a movie about relationship challenges as a planet collides with Earth. Now, his sense of humor has gotten even stranger.

Much like Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell is kind of a big deal. The actor will be this year’s honoree for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., announced on Thursday. “I am truly honored to receive this…

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Neeme Jarvi looks as though he knows what a dance is supposed to be about. On the podium of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night, starting Glazunov’s Concert Waltz, the Estonian conductor moved his whole body with a big man’s buoyant grace even before the music began, conveying a sense of being at once debonair and slightly lumbering, which the orchestra mirrored perfectly. A waltz like this, all honeyed tunes and arabesques, is supposed to make you want to move your body. It’s even better when executed with absolute virtuosity so that its details convey not only prettiness but also humor. If the NSO didn’t quite achieve that, it showed it knew how to make the waltz fly. Read full article > >

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Wajahat Ali, a Pakistani playwright, essayist, blogger, and lawyer imagines, with humor and sarcasm, the scene that unfolded in Pakistan upon reports of Osama bin Laden’s death. This piece was originally published at The Huffington Post

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Pakistan Leaders Meet to Discuss Osama Bin Laden (Parody)

Found portraits turn darkly humorous with explicit additions In his latest show, frequent Cool Hunting contributor, emerging artist and medical doctor Jonah Samson delves even deeper into his sardonic figurative work. Known for his dark sensibility and cryptic sense of humor, Jonah’s work ranges from constructed photographic dioramas to intimate Polaroids, all hinting at underlying explicit sexuality and violence. ” Paintings from the Archives of the Pleasantville Historical Society ” sees the the artist adding his own twist to vintage photographs found on eBay. A skilled painter as well as a photographer, Jonah infuses the classic portraits with fatalistic comic elements, creating completely new stories for characters who have long passed on with humorous subtitles for the works. For example, Samson’s description for the painting below reads “Blake’s renewed fondness for cocaine was to be the ruin of yet another Mahoney family portrait.” Truly striking and at times hilarious, the work can be seen at the Gibson Gallery from now until 16 April 2010.

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Paintings from the Archives of the Pleasantville Historical Society