playa hatin' (or, let's get a few things straight)

[rone]

Penny Arcade is not funny.
Dave Barry stopped being funny around the time Reagan left office.
Achewood is not funny.
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.
Jerk City is not funny.
Sinfest is funny until you realize it's a adolescent ripoff of Bloom County with the main character being two-thirds Milo, one third (Watterson's) Calvin.
Something Positive is not funny.
David Letterman is funny only when compared to Jay Leno.
McSweeney's is not funny.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I concede that the exact point of Barry's transition is disputable.

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

My theory is that Barry ceased to be funny about three months before the divorce debacle. Reading his old books is still good, but that mid-life crisis he had/is having really kicked his ass.

There's really nothing on your list that I disagree with, except the kitty from Something Positive is occasionally cutely drawn, and the Michael Ian Black articles on McSweeney's are moderately funny. McSweeney's as a whole is not funny, it's just wry.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

ARGGGHGGHGHHG MICHAEL IAN BLACK KILL KILL KILL KILL

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Hahaha ok ok. Isn't it at least better to read him than to look at him while he's talking?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

MARGINALLY.