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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 04: Comedienne Margaret Cho appears onstage at Help Haiti with George Lopez & Friends at L.A. Live's Nokia Theater on February 4, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Help Haiti)

Comedian Margaret Cho is donating a portion of proceeds from her latest tour for her comedy CD Cho Dependent to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi. The institute is helping to rescue and rehabilitate animals affected by the Gulf oil spill. Cho’s tour starts August 26th and ends on December 2nd.

Since April 20th, 2010, the IMMS has responded to over 200 dolphins and sea turtles and has rescued more than 30 live sea turtles.

They’ve posted a video on their site, which can be seen below, showing four species of sea turtles enjoying life in the healthy waters as they should. The clip, titled, “Baby Sea Turtle Ballet,” features four baby turtles formerly covered in oil that were saved by IMMS: the Hawksbill, Kemp’s Ridley, the Green, and the Loggerhead.

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Myq Kaplan–”Last Comic Standing” Opened Doors For Vegan Interviews

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 in Comedians, Food & Drink.

Myq Kaplan

Myq Kaplan

This past season, Myq Kaplan gave Last Comic Standing viewers a tickle with his self-deprecating jokes and quips about veganism here and there. Myq didn’t win the grand prize, but stood for quite some time, making it into the finals and getting good reviews from blogs.

Myq spoke to VegNews about the benefits of appearing on Last Comic, including joking how it’s “opened a lot of doors for interviews with vegan magazines.”

VN: What was your relationship like with the other contestants? Did you ever discuss veganism with them?
MK: I’m pretty friendly with everyone on the show. I believe veganism comes up every so often, at mealtimes and the like. If people ask me questions, I answer them. I generally try not to force the issue at all, but if people are curious, I like providing reasonable amounts of information.

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HOLLYWOOD - FEBRUARY 11: Loni Love attends the opening night of 'The Color Purple' at the Pantages Theatre on February 11, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images for Pantages Theatre)

“The vegetarians are a little mad at me because I said all the fat people should eat them. Of course I love all people, and I found a lot of vegetarians have a really good sense of humor. So they get it, and we all get along.”

–Comedian Loni Love, on her jokes made about vegetarians. Hard to say which is worst, the cannibalistic fat people joke or the one about your pet pig one day providing dinner. Maybe she should leave the veggie humor to vegan comedian Myq Kaplan.

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Myq Kaplan Isn’t “Last Comic Standing” But Gets Last Laugh (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 in Comedians, Videos.

Myq Kaplan, the lone vegan on “Last Comic Standing” was the first to be told he was finish during finals night.

Kaplan has made a few vegan jokes here and there during his routines and it probably helped him win points from non vegetarians as he often used the matter to make fun of himself.

His response after learning he wasn’t the winner was thanking fans and telling them, “You should have gotten more phones [for voting].”

Here’s Myq doing a routine where he jokes about ordering food and being a vegetarian. If a duckling is a small duck, you want to steer clear of the “dumplings.”

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 17: Actor Ricky Gervais arrives at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

On Wednesday, Catalonia became the first region in Spain to ban bullfighting!

With 68 in favor and 55 against the measure that would make it illegal in the region, animal activists around the world can celebrate a milestone reached in eliminating animal cruelty.

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Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 in Authors, Birthdays, Comedians.

23 May 2010 - New York, NY - Carol Leifer. 'The Celebrity Apprentice' Season 3 finale after party at Trump SoHo on May 23, 2010 in New York City. Photo Credit: Paul Zimmerman/AdMedia

A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

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Myq Kaplan “Last Comic Standing” Full Of Vegan Laughter (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 in Comedians, Food & Drink, Videos.

Myq Kaplan Stand-Up Comedy from Myq Kaplan on Vimeo.

Myq Kaplan (pronounced “Mike”) is a favorite Last Comic Standing among television bloggers, partially due to his ability to successfully incorporate ripping himself as a meatless man.

The vegan for about 5 years who was vegetarian for about 8 years before that has a hilarious clip from Conan O’Brien where he jokes about the lifestyle. Not all vegetarians are treehuggers and love the environment, for example.

“People assume I’m into other kinds of activism,” Kaplan says. “Oh, you’re vegetarian. You care about the environment…No. I eat the environment.”

Veganism isn’t the only medium from which Kaplan can get roars from the audience. He jokingly offers insight to Prohibition and Women’s Suffrage and why one led to another…and back again. Watch the clip for more.

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Bill Maher Ponders Why Canada Behind Others In Seal Hunt Ban

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 in Animal Issues, Comedians, TV Hosts.

Los Angeles Premiere of HBO's New Miniseries event THE PACIFIC held at The Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 24th, 2010. Bill Maher Fame Pictures, Inc

Bill Maher has a guest post at the New York Daily News urging his Canadian friends to make strides towards ending the country’s annual seal hunt.

Ever the sarcastic personality Maher is, he uses examples of how other governments have agreed the hunt is senseless, while Canada falls behind even the…gasp…United States Senate!

“Opposition around the world is growing. Last year, the U.S. Senate – a group of people who usually can’t agree that the sky is blue – unanimously passed a resolution calling for an immediate end to the annual slaughter. But the Canadian government just keeps putting its fingers in its ears and singing “la, la, la” so that it won’t hear anything it doesn’t like. Or, if it does hear, it responds with all the subtlety and sophistication of a fistfight in the men’s room at a monster-truck rally.”

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