Lewis Black is awesome.

He has a hilarious rant about everything: the Starbucki at the end of the world, candy corn, Mormons, the president, airline security…I had the pleasure of seeing him live on Saturday night, where, in his words, he did the dumbest thing he’s ever done on stage, and received his dumbest heckle. He also told an amazing story about a 12-foot tall animatronic Jesus, and ended his show with “Hippo Swallows Dwarf,” a news story about a dwarf that bounced sideways off a trampoline and into the mouth of a yawning hippo, who accidentally swallowed him. This is supposedly an urban legend, but Lew had the copy of the article with him, so maybe it’s true. Either way, it’s damn funny.

I read that dwarf article in a news listing online so it may actually be true. I believe it was in USA Today’s weird news articles. Really strange, huh! S