DATE: 2:15-3:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, 2009.

EVENT: “Making It Up as I Go Along: Satire in an Absurd World,” featuring political satirist Mo Rocca.

Rocca, known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary, is currently an essayist with CBS’s Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, can be heard regularly on NPR’s Wait, Wait?Don’t Tell Me! and All Things Considered, and is a frequent guest on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann and CNN’s Larry King Live.

A former contributor to NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno and former correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Rocca is author of “All the President’s Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over” and host of his own blog, Mo Rocca 180