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.

I Loved This Game

Break Glasses, Wreck a Laptop, Set Fires

All To Turn A Newspaper Page

This is just fucking great. Remember the beginning of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure? The breakfast machine? It’s like that but better, because it’s clever as hell. Joseph Hersher is the genius behind this contraption. All hail.

Thank you to my antipodean friends at Daily Grail for posting this amazing contraption. It wrecks so much shit just to turn a page. Pure Goldberg. It’s the coolest thing ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMIBdM6N7Q

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

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.

Are these the droids you're looking for?

Turing Is Turning In His Grave

One Thinks It’s A Unicorn

This is really cute. Two AI chat programs talk to each other. I think it’s pretty interesting. I like it that the guybot says he’s not a robot, but a unicorn. I do not fear a robot revolution anytime soon, no matter how dire the portents. I think it’s just the craziest thing ever.

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

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.”

I looked it up. This is true.

XKCD Brings Wisdom

Bye Bye Lifehacker

I love XKCD. I think it’s one of the cleverest webcomics around. This one isn’t that funny, but it teaches a valuable lesson in password strength. All hail. If you want to see a really funny one, I posted this awhile back.