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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Tomasky

Hello, Ben? Antoinette Perry calling!

From McSweeney's, here is a very funny quasi-musical riff on l'affaire Edwards by Ben Greenman of The New Yorker. Best couplet:

"I never meant to humiliate her
I was a freshman legislator."

It's all quite good and reminds me of some lyrics a dear friend and I wrote a couple years ago about various New York Times correspondents to the tunes of well-known songs. I wrote some very amusing (to me) lyrics to "Janny Scott," sung to the tune of Camelot, but we'll save that for another time.

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