Jewcy Welcomes Paul Krassner

I'm very pleased to introduce a new contributor to the Shvitz, Paul Krassner. He'll be cross-posting "Assholes of the Week," a popular feature he writes for the Huffington Post, as well as writing an exclusive weekly humor column for us. Paul's bio easily exceeds anything I could do to underscore the coup that it is to have him blogging for us — he's probably the only person at Jewcy we could easily call a legend.

Paul Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. Don Imus labeled him “one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.” (Imus has since apologized for that quote.) And, according to the Los Angeles Reader, “Krassner delivers 90 minutes of the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town.” On the other hand, a couple of FBI agents went to one of his performances and stated in their report, “He purported to be humorous about government policies.” His FBI files indicate that after Life magazine published a favorable profile of him, the FBI sent a poison-pen letter to the editor, complaining: “To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute. He’s a nut, a raving, unconfined nut.”