Any comic whose take on the afterlife is “Question A: Is there an afterlife? Question B: If so, is there a level cap on XP?” is all right by me.
Category Archives: Humor
A Look Back at Freaks and Geeks
JUDD APATOW: I felt like a father to everybody, and I felt like everyone’s world was about to collapse. I felt responsible, like I had to fight to have it survive so that their lives would be O.K., so that their careers could get launched. And so to completely fail was devastating to me. And especially for Paul, because this was Paul’s story.
10 years after the show was canceled, the actors and writers look back at their time working on the show in a Vanity Fair oral history.
Made Me Laugh: “My Name Is Joe Biden, and I’ll Be Your Server”
Sounds like “Hey, Joe, that’s a piece of fish and a little topping there, and some potatoes.” “Bidaydas,” my great-grandmother from County Louth would have called ’em. You know what I’m talking about. Just simple, basic, sitting-around-the-kitchen-table-on-a-Tuesday-night food. Nothin’ fancy, right? But, folks, that’s not the whole story. If you believe that, you’re not . . . getting . . . the whole . . . story.
Bill Barol’s humor piece in the New Yorker made me giggle.
Daily Show: Republican Candidate Said What About Rape Now?
“Now that I’ve cleared up that I do not worship a rape-loving deity…let me just reiterate, Mourdock 2012.”
Jon Stewart gives Richard Mourdock—and like-minded Republicans—the thrashing they deserve.
Review: Michael Kupperman, Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume 1
Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume 1 offers hilarious bits of absurd humor doled out in two-three page bursts. Kupperman is an adept visual mimic, skilled at turning out the heavy-lined styles of old woodblock prints and over-the-top ads that used to promise hidden knowledge in Bronze Age comic books.
His sense of humor is fine too, wry, conceptual and always subverting the authority of the visuals that inspired him. John Hodgman is a good comparison. If you don’t find a quick hidden history of Sex Blimps and Sex Holes to be promising (because of a loophole, it turns out the flesh trade is legal 10 feet above or below the ground), this may not be for you.
The last volume of the four seems to lose a little inspiration; several of the gags seem like retreads of better, earlier offerings. But it’s still good for a lot of laughs.