Funny Times (newspaper) Funny Times (newspaper) Funny Times (FT) is an American humor newspaper founded in 1985, and still published as of 2018, by the wife and husband team of Susan Wolpert and Raymond Lesser, who were inspired by The Comic News of Santa Cruz, California, "a monthly journal of progressive editorial cartoons" founded in 1984 by Thom Zajac. FT's political content is often subversive and has a progressive/liberal perspective. In 1998, Sandee Beyerle wandered by the offices of Funny Times and stepped inside simply because she wanted to get out of the rain. Really. That led to a job as gopher, secretary
The Evening News (London newspaper) in the late 1980s. The "Evening News" reappeared for few months in 1987 when it was launched by the "Evening Standard's" owners "Associated Newspapers" in order to counter Robert Maxwell's "London Daily News"; this sparked a price war, by the end of which the "Evening News" was being sold at 5p to the "London Daily News"' 10p. The revived newspaper was edited by Lori Miles, one of the first female editors in Fleet Street. Following the collapse of the "London Daily News" in July the "Evening News" continued for a further three months as a separate brand from the "Evening