Madeleine Begun Kane

Who is Madeleine Begun Kane?

Humorist and political satirist Madeleine Begun Kane won the 2008 Robert Benchley Society Humor Award and is a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award winner. Her humor and essays have been published in numerous newspapers, print magazines, and web sites and in many anthologies and text books She is also a recovering lawyer, a funny contracts and limerick writer, and a musician whose political song parodies were popular “sing-alongs” at anti-Bush demonstrations.

Mad Kane's humor about marriage, work, money, travel, cars, politics, the media, and other topics has appeared in numerous publications including Family Circle Magazine, First For Women, America Online, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times.

Dubya’s Dayly Diary garnered many awards and favorable press, including USAToday Hot Site of the Day and Fun Site of the Week, About.com parody awards, Maxim Magazine’s Hot99, Shift Magazine’s 100 Sites We Love, Political Site of the Day, and The Guardian’s Best George Bush Websites.