Fast Food and Other Culprits

By Andy Borowitz

Published December 8, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Essayist Andy Borowitz finds plenty of culprits to blame for his own dumbing down.

Andy Borowitz

Andy Borowitz is a commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, as well as a writer, actor, and comedian whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsweek.com. He is the first winner of The National Press Club’s humor award and has won five Dot-Comedy Awards for his Web site, borowitzreport.com.

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