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

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

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...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hey, i was certainly expecting threats when i wrote these up. It's been rather tepid. I feel like a bit of a failure.

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

I almost threatened you in jest when I thought you were saying you were unsure as to what chromosomes I possessed. Feel better?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Barely.

belated

[nothings.livejournal.com]

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.

As someone else said, there are still occasional winners of headlines. And I very consistently appreciate What Do You Think?; my pleasure in that has been unflagging for the eight or ten or whatever years I've been reading.

I generally like AV Club interviews, and skim their movie reviews since they're still better than most. However, my opinion have been skewed by starting to read the LJ of one of their writers, rollick.