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Travis Irvine
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United States
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Comedian/Filmmaker/Journalist

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Travis Irvine is a stand-up comedian, independent filmmaker and unsuccessful politician. His campaign and comedy videos have been featured on The Jay Leno Show, PBS’s NewsHour, The Huffington Post and Funny Or Die. He was also once on The People's Court. A recent graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, he currently lives and performs in New York City.

 

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Travis Irvine is a stand-up comedian, independent filmmaker and unsuccessful politician. He has performed stand-up comedy at comedy venues and festivals all across the country, as well as in Canada and the UK. Travis wrote and directed a horror/satire feature film about killer raccoons called Coons! Night of the Bandits of the Night, which was released on DVD by cult film distributor Troma Entertainment. In 2007, Travis ran for mayor of his hometown in Ohio and turned the experience into a short documentary, American Mayor, which was featured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 and is also available on DVD from Indie Media Entertainment. Travis ran for U.S. Congress in Ohio in 2010 as a Libertarian, and his campaign and comedy videos have been featured on The Jay Leno Show, PBS’s NewsHour, The Huffington Post and Funny Or Die. A recent graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, Travis currently lives and performs between New York City and Ohio.

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 Comedy, Politics, Movies and the Truth!

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Columns by Travis Irvine

Everything I Needed to Know About Chris Kyle I Learned From Jesse Ventura
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Travis Irvine 2015-02-19 09:34
Column by Travis Irvine. Exclusive to STR The other week, in addition to the usual celebrations for the ridiculous holiday known as Groundhog Day, the citizens of Texas celebrated another slightly-less-ridiculous holiday on Feb. 2: Chris Kyle Day. I'm not sure what traditions would stem from such a holiday (if you snipe a person and it's a terrorist, do we get 6 more months of war in Iraq...
Dude, Where's My Freedom of the Press?
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Travis Irvine 2013-08-29 07:52
Column by Travis Irvine. Exclusive to STR These are the times that try journalists’ souls. While Thomas Paine was the American patriot who proved the power of the press, it was arguably the penman of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, who truly understood and fought for freedom of the press. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press,” Jefferson once wrote...
An Open Letter to the NSA, CIA, FBI, and DOJ (In Fact, You Have Probably Already Read It)
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Travis Irvine 2013-07-03 08:29
Column by Travis Irvine. Exclusive to STR Dear NSA, CIA, FBI, DOJ and any other U.S. intelligence entities that I do not know exist, Congratulations! Edward Snowden is on the run, Bradley Manning is on trial, the AP’s emails have been hacked and Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings is dead. It seems like your attempts to stop intelligence leaks – via the whistleblowers who...
Fox News: Bhutto Attacked by Killer Tiger from San Francisco
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Travis Irvine 2008-01-01 17:00
Exclusive to STR January 2, 2008 On the morning of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, I sat oblivious to world events in a small restaurant/bar in Columbus, Ohio. As I ate my Turkey Rueben Special, I glanced up at Fox News on the television, which was headlining two stories: Benazir Bhutto had been killed in Pakistan, and a killer tiger had escaped from the San Francisco zoo and attacked someone...
Lost in Oz: The Shi'ite Has Hit the Fan in Iraq
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Travis Irvine 2006-02-28 17:00
Exclusive to STR The late comedian Bill Hicks once said that the struggle in Iraq was never a war, because a war is when two armies are fighting. Hicks said this in 1991, during the first Gulf War, but his statements could ultimately be true about the conflict in Iraq today -- one extremely-well funded army is using the best military technology in the world to fight a group of religious zealots...
Gay Cowboys to Lasso bin Laden in Sequel
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Travis Irvine 2006-02-08 17:00
Exclusive to STR Washington D.C. is often referred to as the ugly person's Hollywood. Likewise, Hollywood is full of scum sucking trash who don't care about anyone except themselves. So really, the two were made for each other. They're like sisters. Two spoiled sisters who America watches intently, even though deep down, nobody knows why. Let's call them the Hilton sisters! Currently,...
Everything I Needed to Know About Chris Kyle I Learned From Jesse Ventura
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Travis Irvine 2015-02-19 09:34
Column by Travis Irvine. Exclusive to STR The other week, in addition to the usual celebrations for the ridiculous holiday known as Groundhog Day, the citizens of Texas celebrated another slightly-less-ridiculous holiday on Feb. 2: Chris Kyle Day. I'm not sure what traditions would stem from such a holiday (if you snipe a person and it's a terrorist, do we get 6 more months of war in Iraq...
Dude, Where's My Freedom of the Press?
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Travis Irvine 2013-08-29 07:52
Column by Travis Irvine. Exclusive to STR These are the times that try journalists’ souls. While Thomas Paine was the American patriot who proved the power of the press, it was arguably the penman of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, who truly understood and fought for freedom of the press. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press,” Jefferson once wrote...

 

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