The Onion was funny until they started repeating themselves sometime around `97. They'll occasionally have a good zinger, but most of their stuff is telegraphed to hell and back.
I usually read the headline and the first paragraph or two. Even their A/V CLUB section just tends to piss me off with its pretentiousnessosity.
Something Positive is not funny.
You realize that saying that will get you killed in some parts of the world, yes? I mean, not anywhere I'm at, but still...
David Letterman is funny only when compared to Jay Leno.
Yet I find Craig Ferguson oddly soothing.
McSweeney's is not funny.
I have found that, on occasion, a very short piece in McSweeney's is funny. The only issue I've ever purchased was the one with TMBG providing the soundtrack...
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:43 pm (UTC)I usually read the headline and the first paragraph or two. Even their A/V CLUB section just tends to piss me off with its pretentiousnessosity.
You realize that saying that will get you killed in some parts of the world, yes? I mean, not anywhere I'm at, but still...
Yet I find Craig Ferguson oddly soothing.
I have found that, on occasion, a very short piece in McSweeney's is funny. The only issue I've ever purchased was the one with TMBG providing the soundtrack...