Oh yeah I forgot one category:
Podcast Quote Of The Year:
“The pussycat dolls are in charge of their own sexuality only insofar as a cow is in charge of its own meat.”
- Penny Arcade
Runners Up:
“I fucked her mouth, I fucked her arse, I fucked every hole on her body and then I made some new holes and fucked them too. I fucked her tits and her ears and her nostrils. But I didn't fuck her vagina, so on our wedding night she'll still be puuuuuure and virginal.”
- Dan Savage
“Sure, if you have an addictive personality you can get addicted to anything, from jerking off to reading Tolkien”
“Or both at the same time.”
- Gamers With Jobs Conference Call
Showing posts with label Funny Shit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funny Shit. Show all posts
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Ha!
Today's random funny news post has nothing to do with animals or India.
A Norwegian politician advocates legalising illicit music downloads. Enslaved reply by stealing his sheep.
In trve black metal fashion they released the sheep to freedom in the mountains, where it can now forever roam twixt the blackened peaks bathed in the dark light of the frostbitten wintermoon, preserving the spirit of metal within its black unbeating heart.
A Norwegian politician advocates legalising illicit music downloads. Enslaved reply by stealing his sheep.
In trve black metal fashion they released the sheep to freedom in the mountains, where it can now forever roam twixt the blackened peaks bathed in the dark light of the frostbitten wintermoon, preserving the spirit of metal within its black unbeating heart.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Today In Murderous Indian Animal News
First it was the monkeys, now it's the Drunken Elephant Rampage!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
News Post of the Day
I know this makes me a terrible person but this is the funniest thing I've read in weeks: Indian Mayor Murdered by Gang of Monkeys.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
New Webcomic
Dresdan Codak. It's not updated very often but it has fantastic art and a nice surreal flavour that's very unique. This one is my favourite.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
New Web Comics
And by 'new' I mean 'old but new to me'.
For those of us who admit to the occasional bit of roleplaying: DM of the Rings
For those of us who like stuff that is really funny: Basic Instructions
For those of us who admit to the occasional bit of roleplaying: DM of the Rings
For those of us who like stuff that is really funny: Basic Instructions
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Swan!
Hot Fuzz
Directed by Edgar Wright
Some years ago my faith in the ability of movie industry to create something genuinely funny was restored by the brilliant British film Shaun of the Dead. Now the same writers and director are back with a new film, Hot Fuzz, which does to cop movies what their last offering did to zombie flicks.
Simon Pegg plays a badass cop from the mean streets of London who is (for no sensical reason) transferred to a sleepy cowtown in the depths of the English countryside. Naturally his gung ho demeanour is unappreciated by the complacent, underworked local constabulary, save for his partner, played by Nick Frost, who looks up to him as an action movie come to life.
The first half of the film gains a lot of mileage from the obvious fish out of water comedy. It might be straightforward slapstick but the team's first assignment (to catch an escaped swan) had me in fits. Later on the town's dreadful production of Romeo and Juliet (an unbelievably tacky travesty sourced primarily from Baz Luhrman's movie) tops that scene, demonstrating the writer's best asset: a fine control of absurdity that keeps things subtle and understated.
Later on things get a little more serious as the plot proper is resolved. There are fewer laughs to be found here, save for the final climactic action scene which is an over the top parody of the films admired by Frost's character near the beginning (Bad Boys 2, Point Blank). It's amusing but nowhere near the standard of the first half. Shaun of the Dead had a similar problem and the two films also share a tendency to start taking themselves seriously and invest themselves in the character's dramatic arcs near the end. The partner's bonding, and the climactic dramatic scene in which the police force is rallied behind Nick Angel, felt pretty cheesy. It's a common fault of comedies (both good and bad) to attempt to have a serious emotional heart to them and it's a decision that always mystifies me. I simply cannot think of a movie that was a comedy first and foremost that actually managed to pull off a genuine romance or other emotional arc, yet the sappy ending is an obligatory setpiece for any movie of this kind. I guess the test audiences demand it. It's easy to look past it in a movie such as this one which is actually funny, but in some shitty Adam Sandler flick or tripe like Meet the Fockers it can leave the viewer writhing in their seat in embarrassment for the actors onscreen, who stand there mugging away at the camera, blissfully unaware of just how nauseating their hamhanded, saccharine, self satisfied bullshit really is.
However I do have to applaud the implied message of Hot Fuzz. For once it's nice to see a film where rather than having the good hearted, simple but wise country folk teach the arrogant, superficial city dwellers a lesson the roles are reversed, and urban drive and sophistication triumph over the conservative, petty mindset of a small town hierarchy.
Great movie, but not quite as funny as Shaun of the Dead.
Directed by Edgar Wright
Some years ago my faith in the ability of movie industry to create something genuinely funny was restored by the brilliant British film Shaun of the Dead. Now the same writers and director are back with a new film, Hot Fuzz, which does to cop movies what their last offering did to zombie flicks.
Simon Pegg plays a badass cop from the mean streets of London who is (for no sensical reason) transferred to a sleepy cowtown in the depths of the English countryside. Naturally his gung ho demeanour is unappreciated by the complacent, underworked local constabulary, save for his partner, played by Nick Frost, who looks up to him as an action movie come to life.
The first half of the film gains a lot of mileage from the obvious fish out of water comedy. It might be straightforward slapstick but the team's first assignment (to catch an escaped swan) had me in fits. Later on the town's dreadful production of Romeo and Juliet (an unbelievably tacky travesty sourced primarily from Baz Luhrman's movie) tops that scene, demonstrating the writer's best asset: a fine control of absurdity that keeps things subtle and understated.
Later on things get a little more serious as the plot proper is resolved. There are fewer laughs to be found here, save for the final climactic action scene which is an over the top parody of the films admired by Frost's character near the beginning (Bad Boys 2, Point Blank). It's amusing but nowhere near the standard of the first half. Shaun of the Dead had a similar problem and the two films also share a tendency to start taking themselves seriously and invest themselves in the character's dramatic arcs near the end. The partner's bonding, and the climactic dramatic scene in which the police force is rallied behind Nick Angel, felt pretty cheesy. It's a common fault of comedies (both good and bad) to attempt to have a serious emotional heart to them and it's a decision that always mystifies me. I simply cannot think of a movie that was a comedy first and foremost that actually managed to pull off a genuine romance or other emotional arc, yet the sappy ending is an obligatory setpiece for any movie of this kind. I guess the test audiences demand it. It's easy to look past it in a movie such as this one which is actually funny, but in some shitty Adam Sandler flick or tripe like Meet the Fockers it can leave the viewer writhing in their seat in embarrassment for the actors onscreen, who stand there mugging away at the camera, blissfully unaware of just how nauseating their hamhanded, saccharine, self satisfied bullshit really is.
However I do have to applaud the implied message of Hot Fuzz. For once it's nice to see a film where rather than having the good hearted, simple but wise country folk teach the arrogant, superficial city dwellers a lesson the roles are reversed, and urban drive and sophistication triumph over the conservative, petty mindset of a small town hierarchy.
Great movie, but not quite as funny as Shaun of the Dead.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
New Blog
Not actually new at all, but new to me.
When flipping through the morning newspaper, I inevitably stop to read the comics page, maybe out of some kind of habit left over from when I was seven and the comics were the only things in the paper I understood. Nowadays it's more like watching a car wreck. If you hate and loathe the quarter page crime against humour that is the daily comic strips, then you should be reading The Comics Curmudgeon.
When flipping through the morning newspaper, I inevitably stop to read the comics page, maybe out of some kind of habit left over from when I was seven and the comics were the only things in the paper I understood. Nowadays it's more like watching a car wreck. If you hate and loathe the quarter page crime against humour that is the daily comic strips, then you should be reading The Comics Curmudgeon.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Charlie Brakowski
I'm not very familiar with Charles Bukowski but this mash up of his writing with Charlie Brown (via Neil Gaiman) is still pretty funny.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Random New Blog Of The Day
I'm prepared to suffer the shame of admitting I read more than a few Babysitters Club books during my misspent youth in order to tell you that BSC Headquarters is a damn funny read.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Remember When The Onion Was Always This Funny?
Bush Refuses To Set Timetable For Withdrawal Of Head From White House Banister
I know it's old and I know it's lame to post links to stuff from The Onion because everyone reads it anyway but it made me laugh so damn hard I had to anyway.
I know it's old and I know it's lame to post links to stuff from The Onion because everyone reads it anyway but it made me laugh so damn hard I had to anyway.
Monday, April 30, 2007
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