Comedy Tonight: From Wor$t $lide $tory to dreams of . . . well, no longer the moon

No, this isn't the new bilingual version of West Side Story, as refashioned (and directed) by the original book author, Arthur Laurents (who just celebrated his 89th birthday). No, Noah passed along this inspired "Walt Toon," an animation created by Newsday's distinguished editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman back in April. It features such immortal tunes as this excerpt:

My I.R.A.!
It's giving me acute angina!
Dreams of Miami Beach
completely out of reach
for me!

And this adaptation of the my favorite song in the original:

Our spreadsheets were a ripoff.
We had a lack of green.
So just like Bernie Madoff
we ran a Ponzi scheme.
But the housing market crumbled
and our pyramid collapsed.
Now everyone knows
that we're full of crap!

Oh, Timothy Geithner,
we need all your clout.
Our world will fall apart
if we don't get a bailout.
Leave in a big bonus
for all our hard work.
Don't care
if the world thinks we're big jerks.

MEANWHLE, AS WE DUMP EVER MORE
ABUSE ON THE #^@$@S WE PUT IN OFFICE . . .

This lovely cartoon by Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen provides a timely reminder that sometimes the finger of shame can be pointed a little closer to home.

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