This is so funny, it's a koan

Funniest Cartoon Ever

Kliban was a genius

There really isn’t anyone else I’ve found who’s blown my mind, through cartoons, like B Kliban.  He’s like the Robert Anton Wilson of cartoon artists. There’s this one cartoon of a caveman about to throw a rock at the moon, that’s just hilarious to the point of infinite regress. Without a doubt, it’s the funniest thing ever.

WTF is this about? And yet it's hilarious.

Videodisc. Not Laserdisc, not DVD... video DISC

Jew Vill Ski!

Jew Vill Not Ski! Jew Vill Watch!

I remember watching this when it first aired on HBO, back in the early 80′s. I was living in Bedford, NH and one funny night in 1983 (I looked it up) Buddy Hackett made me laugh my ass off.

He joked about homosexuals, and nazis, and jews…. oh it was wonderful. I now realize that nazis were still relevant in 1983, because those folks (of Hackett’s generation) saw it happen.

A lot of this comedy is pretty hackneyed and dated now, but there are some real gems in this. Buddy Hackett was fucking funny! The most famous anecdote about the Tonight Show, the Johnny Carson days, is the legendary joke Buddy told the Tonight Show audience during a commercial break. When the show came back from break, Johnny, Ed, and the audience were all in hysterics, but the folks would never know what was said.

If you’ve got the 74 minutes to kill, you should watch this. It’s the funniest shit ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuLnknkYetQ

It's been awhile

I Can Has Lolcat?

Yes, Virgina, You Can Has

It’s been a long time since the last lolcat. It will probably be a long time before my next one.

He Was Really, Really Funny. Dead At Age 41

Dead At 41

Unbelievably Funny

I was shocked to hear that we lost comedian Patrice Oneal. He died following a stroke brought on by diabetes. It’s unusually surprising, as I have had a Patrice Oneal video clip in the queue for about six weeks, but I’m as busy as fuck with work, and I just haven’t had the time to post it.

I watched Patrice Oneal’s recent stand up video, Elephant In The Room, after seeing his performance on the (otherwise tepid) Charlie Sheen Roast. Everybody joked about how he was fat, black, diabetic, and dying. I didn’t realize they were so right. Anyway, his humor is brilliant, dark, really, really spot on. He rarely finishes sentences, when he’s making observations. He just trails off, leaving you to finish the thought. Which you can, because all he did was say what you (just) realized you believed all along. That’s genius. I was delighted to find another comic genius to admire, and see live (for once), but no. Patrice Oneal has left us, and we are the poorer for it.

Do yourself a true favor, and get on Netflix, bittorrent, or parse the clips on Youtube, and watch Elephant In the Room. It’s so fucking funny, you’ll miss Patrice Oneal too. He was the funniest thing ever.

This clip starts at :35 because that’s where the joke starts. The previous 35 seconds are the remains of another joke, and it makes no sense out of context. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqF_9DtVguM

3/4 Of The Young Ones (the funny ones)

“Why Can’t You Be More Like Roger Daltrey?”

Because I’m Not Queer!

Ah, British 80′s comedy. Bad News was a Spinal Tap-ish band/documentary created by former Young Ones Rik Mayall (rik), Adrian Edmonson (vivian), and Nigel Planer (neil). They were the subjects of two episodes of the BBC comedy, The Comic Strip. This show was aired on MTV in the late 80′s, and it was funny as hell (most of the time).

Well, the Bad News episodes were very popular, so the boys recorded an album, produced by Queen’s Brian May, and took to playing live, just like a real horrible metal band. They achieved such status as to attract real musicians, like Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and the aforementioned Brian May to perform at the concerts.

I love the tshirt for the Checkerboard Lounge (Chicago Blues Club)

Here is a recording of Jimmy Page exchanging some patter with Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmonson) before the song. It’s funny. Vim says, “I said stay behind the stacks!”  to which Jimmy replies, “There’s too many back there already. The pushed me out.”  Good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na70Lux3-gA

Same sex couples too (without kids)

Truth Truth Truth

Cries The Lord Of The Abyss

I’ve said it before, and I imagine that I’ll say it again. XKCD is one of the funniest, cleverest, smartest webcomics around. That’s why I post them pretty often.

I used to play that game too. I used to...

Duck, Duck

GOOSE

Vengeance Dad, you’ve done it again. You creeped out everyone in the room but me. I was laughing like a homicidal, axe-wielding maniac. I have lauded the Vengeance Dad meme before, a couple times.

click for another visual cue

Mit Iodine

What would Cliff Think?

Lou Reed and Metallica. I agree mit der fuhrer, but from the opposite position. I have very little love for Metallica, and any regard I held for them ended… shit 15 years ago? Whenever they decided they needed hits. Lou Reed will gain a certain amount of new fans, and surely won’t lose any, but… Mo Tucker > Lars Ulrich … and she’s a 70 year old woman.

This video is hilarious. Watch it all the way through. Every second is golden. Funniest Shit Ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9LcJwX9dnE

Pretty Much.

How Do We Know The Bible Is Right?

The Bible Says So!

See? That was easy. I’ve had these on my hard drive for awhile, and I am in a very “I don’t give a fuck about youdopia” place right now, so.. here we are. Both of these, and the funnier one that I lost, are from Tumblr.

Nothing’s wrong. I’m just crazy busy and uninspired. Fear not. It’s still the funniest thing ever.

Super funny

Get it? A football helmet! Those wacky Scots

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world.  I didn’t know that, nor did I think Scots had a sense of humor in the usual sense. My idea of Scottish humor is more like this:

A Scotsman walking through a field, sees a man drinking water from a pool with his hand.
The Scotsman man shouts ‘ Awa ye feel hoor thatâs full Oâ coos Sharn’
(Don’t drink the water, it’s full of cow shit.)
The man shouts back ‘I’m English, Speak English, I don’t understand you’.
The Scotsman man shouts back ‘Use both hands, you’ll get more in.‘

— There’s more here

…but that shows my bias. At least jokes are funnier than these jokes.

The BBC was kind enough to print the 10 Funniest Jokes from the Fringe, and I was kind enough to nick ‘em, and post them here.  I like numbers five and ten.

1) Nick Helm: “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”

2) Tim Vine: “Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”

3) Hannibal Buress: “People say ‘I’m taking it one day at a time’. You know what? So is everybody. That’s how time works.”

4) Tim Key: “Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought… once you’ve hired the car…”

5) Matt Kirshen: “I was playing chess with my friend and he said, ‘Let’s make this interesting’. So we stopped playing chess.”

6) Sarah Millican: “My mother told me, you don’t have to put anything in your mouth you don’t want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.”

7) Alan Sharp: “I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure.”

Mark Watson: “Someone asked me recently – what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I’m not falling for that one again, wife.”

9) Andrew Lawrence: “I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can’t even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails.”

10) DeAnne Smith: “My friend died doing what he loved … Heroin.”