Tag Archives: humor
Dave Bautista checks Trump’s masculinity
Might be the best political attack (humiliation?) ad I’ve seen. Had to look up Dave Bautista.
The Onion: Tips for Starting A Book Club
With the loneliness epidemic impacting millions of Americans, book clubs offer a simple and structured way for readers of all ages to socialize. The Onion shares tips for starting your own book club.
- Seek out fellow readers by blackmailing a librarian into giving up names.
- Choose the day of the month that works best for everyone to cancel on.
- Make sure you have a good mix of people who will keep the book discussion going and people you actually like.
- Select one of three books not banned by your state.
- Establish a rotation order for club members to take turns shooting down each other’s book suggestions.
- Bookmark the Dictionary.com page for “glib” for easy future reference.
- Challenge your club with a book written in an ancient, untranslatable language.
- Establish independent election monitors to maintain legitimacy of the book selection process.
- Spend five to six years seeking your doctorate in comparative literature so you can absolutely smoke your friends with your opinion on A Court Of Thorns And Roses.
- Keep your meetings on topic by dressing in an intimidating leather outfit and occasionally cracking your knuckles.
- Make sure that everyone is hitting their page goals by administering regular pop quizzes, a midterm, and a final.
- Spread the hosting duties around so that, a few months from now, you can easily shed yourself of this albatross of a social commitment once and for all.
Drag queen helping conservatives with makeup
Landon Reid describes himself as “Artist, Oddball, Dork, Decorator, Costume designer, reaching across the aisle to help conservatives re-create their favorite makeup looks.” (Can you say “niche”?)
As far as I know I am not personally acquainted with any drag queens. But based on what I’ve seen in films, TV and on YouTube, nobody does bitchy-snarky satire better.
While it’s unlikely Marjorie Taylor Green will ever see the video above, it was viewed 192,000 times in three weeks. Mr. Reid has also re-created the makeup look of Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Rudy Giuliani and many others. (Side note: he seems to be really good at doing makeup).
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (2024)
Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels.
The 2024 Grand Prize went to Lawrence Person of Austin, TX:
“She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck.”
Joel Phillips of West Trenton, NJ received one of several Dishonorable Mentions:
“However unlikely an event, Lucy’s flight had made a water landing, and as she clutched her seat cushion, which was useable as a flotation device, she waited patiently for the lifeboats to pick up first the Plutonium-class members, active service personnel, parents traveling with small children, and those passengers with special needs.”
A parody of Creep
This is one of the better parody songs I’ve seen. Production values top-notch, but the cheap suit might be the best part. Had not heard of Don Caron but found this on the Parody Project website:
For over 50 years Don Caron has been active in the entertainment industry as a composer, choreographer, pianist, sound engineer, editor, screenwriter, author, producer, and director. He has composed extensively for orchestra, choir and chamber groups and his music has been performed and heard world-wide.
If AI does nothing else for us…
What are you gonna do?
Trump Stand-up
The genius behind these is someone named Jabari Jones (YouTube). There’s an actor by that name but cannot confirm this is his YT channel. What can I tell you, I’m a sucker for crude humor.
Jerry Seinfeld: “The Scholar of Comedy”
Excellent interview in The New Yorker by David Remnick. Not sure if the piece is behind a paywall or not but it’s a good read.
“That’s the way you go through life. You only care about laughing and being funny.”
“And I don’t like old people, either. Even though I’m seventy—I don’t like old people. […] They don’t look good. Everything’s going. Everything’s deteriorating. I don’t want to see this. If you want to hang around, fine, but we’re moving on to younger people. I’m with you up to about thirty-eight. If you want to stay, you can stay, but I’m moving on.”
“There were no sitcoms picked up on the fall season of all four networks. Not one. No new sitcoms.”
History Report
From a brilliant essay in The New Yorker by Simon Rich:
“They met in College, which is a place people used to go to after high school to drink alcohol. […] Instead of matching with someone through a dating app and sending a series of nude photos to each other before eventually meeting up for sex, you would meet them in person, before doing anything else. This meant that when my Great-Grandparents went out for the first time, they had no idea what each other looked like naked.”
A note about the link above. Many (most) of my favorite magazines –New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker– are behind paywalls. So I finally gave in and subscribed to Apple News which gives me access to 300 publications for $13 a month. If you are a subscriber the link above will take you to the essay. If not? There’s no free ride. Sorry.