‘The Borowitz Report’ (not the news)

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‘The Borowitz Report’ (not the news)

“Andy Borowitz (born January 4, 1958)is an American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor. Borowitz is a New York Times-bestselling author who won the first National Press Club award for humor. He is known for creating the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the satirical column The Borowitz Report.” – Wikipedia

The Borowitz Report was acquired by the New Yorker Magazine in 2012. Due to the prevalence of fake news claims throughout the country, the New Yorker added the tagline “not the news” in 2016. If you sign up for the newsletter, it arrives in your in-basket with funny satire that you’ll wish you had written.

Today’s satirical story is headlined:

Pence Admits to Spending Entire Campaign Fund on Taylor Swift Ticket and begins, “In an emotional press conference, former Vice-President Mike Pence revealed that he had spent all of his Presidential campaign’s funds on a ticket to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.”

You can also find Borowitz’s satire in book form such as The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers described by the publisher as “From the man The Wall Street Journal hailed as a “Swiftean satirist” comes the most shocking book ever written! The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, by award-winning fake journalist Andy Borowitz, contains page after page of “news stories” too hot, too controversial, too — yes, shocking — for the mainstream press to handle. Sample the groundbreaking reporting from the news organization whose motto is “Give us thirty minutes — we’ll waste it.”