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

[frosch.livejournal.com]

I don't find the The Venture Brothers funny, possibly because Jonny Quest was one of my Saturday morning favorites as a kid, but at least it doesn't SUCK like "Tom Goes to See the Mayor". I'm starting to get tired of ATHF, too; Meatwad needs to enunciate his lines so they're at least minimally intelligible. I miss Space Ghost (which, ironically, was another of my childhood favorites) and The Brak Show.

Most of Robot Chicken is pretty good.

South Park crossed the Garry Trudeau Line into tedious social commentary three or four years ago. I probably would find Pratchett funnier if my wife hadn't spent three or four years obsessed with the Discworld MUD.

I'm leading a pretty comedy-deprived existence these days, although sometimes just living in Alabama is enough.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who likes TGTSTM (or American Dad, for that matter).

I didn't care for ATHF at all, but repeated exposure made it tolerable. But i mostly avoid it.

When did Trudeau cross the GT Line, anyway?

[frosch.livejournal.com]

When did Trudeau cross the GT Line, anyway?

There are two schools of thought on that. One is that Trudeau was never funny at all; the other is that he rapidly became tedious after he won the Pulitzer in 1975.

Doonesbury has always been so embedded in cultural baggage that it really doesn't resonate for anyone who wasn't going to prep school in the Vietnam era. (I'm a '70s teenager who went to a public high school, and it seems hopelessly anachronistic to me.)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Odd. I was born a week after Nixon was reëlected, so i missed out on Doonesbury until i went to college. Maybe i was just at the right age to buy into his skewering of Bush, but i've become quite a fan of Trudeau's work. In a way, he's helped me acquaint myself with recent political history (which i lacked, as i grew up overseas).

Anyone who thinks Trudeau was never funny has problems, as far as i'm concerned.