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Luke Burns
Luke Burns is a writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, New York Magazine, HAD, and in the books The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something. More at lukevburns.com.
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March 12, 2024An Excerpt from Pierre La Police’s Classic Comic Masters of the Nefarious
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May 4, 2023Yoda Botches Five Classic Jokes
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September 14, 2022The Secret to Great Writing Is Taking Dozens of Showers a Day
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June 18, 2020Celebrating the Hilarious Work of Brian Agler
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December 16, 2019Dr. Manhattan’s 12 Days of Christmas
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November 10, 2017Similes Involving Bad Similes
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February 9, 2015White Noise or White Noise?
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February 17, 2014Attempts to Find a Symbol for the Conflict Between My Screenplay’s Protagonist and Antagonist
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August 2, 2013Fragments from the Ancient Gospels of “The Church of a Pretty Good God.”
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May 13, 2013I’d Like To Take a Moment to Talk About the Plight of Drone Veterans
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December 19, 2012Audience Participation Cues for the My Dinner With André Midnight Madness Screening
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July 25, 2011The Birthday Clown Consortium Price Guide
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March 24, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
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March 26, 2025Excerpts from a Red-Hot Right-Wing Romance Novel
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March 25, 2025The Plan to Bomb the Middle East Finally Made It Out of the Group Chat
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April 1, 2025I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
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April 1, 2025An Open Letter to ICE Regarding My Potential Disappearance
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March 31, 2025We Will No Longer Waste Taxpayer Money on Anything, Since Nothing Is Real
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March 31, 2025I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas