Shocking news for California

[Playinghardball]

Source: Borowitz Report

Unemployment Rose Last Week By Two and a Half Men

Jobs ‘Gone Forever,’ Says Labor Department


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The economic recovery received an unexpected jolt today as the Labor Department announced that unemployment increased last week by two and a half men.

The 2.5 jobs were lost in the Los Angeles, California area and are “gone forever,” a Labor Department spokesman said in a surprisingly downbeat assessment.

But in a possible boost for the California economy, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer today announced plans to begin marketing a new blockbuster drug called Charlie Sheen.


Read more at: http://www.borowitzreport.com/

[Lucinda]

1. Borowitz cracks me up

:hi:

[lob1]

2. Very funny.

However, he didn't put two and a half men out of work, he put 200 people out of work.

[Beaverhausen]

4. I was just going to post how this is not so funny for all the people who work on the show

[TommyO]

6. It's my understanding that the crew will be paid for the four episodes that were scheduled

to shoot, after that, who knows? The cost for the crew for those four weeks equals about what Sheen makes for one episode, $2 million.

[Major Hogwash]

3. Can we get it cheaper from Canada?

I don't know if it is available across the border, though.
Maybe we could get the generic called Andy Dick.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. lol

[Kurovski]

7. OK , that's funny