P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have,
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.
Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.
The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.