Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears regularly in The New Yorker. He is the first winner of the National Press Club’s humor award and has won seven Dot-Comedy Awards for his web site. He is the author of five humor books, including The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, a 2005 finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His most recent book is The Republican Playbook.