What brought this post to mind was watching a fantastic episode of Dog Bites Man. It’s a canceled TV comedy from 2006 starring several people - one of them being a star of the new movie The Hangover: Zach Galifianakis (I still spell his name wrong from memory). It reminds me of how many great [...]
Tags: best tv shows, cancelled tv shows, funny shows, funny shows you don't know about, good shows that got canned, great shows, great tv, what to watch, why they cancel shows
I’ve just finished running 13 kilometers (8 or 9 miles I think) and it reminds me of a joke I wrote:
Pain is the way your body tells you that something is bad - well then how come exercise hurts so much?
I know it’s not that funny but it’s fucking true. Incredibly, the part that currently [...]
Tags: running exercise pain nipple yahweh dr. ho eastbound and down marathon
I thought I’d share a theory on my favourite joke structure: intentionally getting a boo and turning it around. I’ll give a few examples that make me laugh every time I think of them.
The first thing you need is a topic that can offend people but isn’t too awful: the first example involves sexism. When [...]
I’m a big fan of Tracy Morgan. Not so much for his work on 30 Rock, though it’s pretty good, nor for his sketches at Saturday Night Live, what I love are his talk show appearances. He’s pretty good on late night shows but his star really shines on morning shows. Here’s a great introduction [...]
Tags: tracy morgan david letterman jimmy kimmel performance interview comedians
Back in the day my friends and I paid many visits to Vancouver for fun and shenanigans. During one trip we got a hot tip that because a second Rolling Stones concert had been added to the original one that night, scalpers might be forced to sell tickets to the show at a big discount. [...]
I’m writing this post using my favourite inspirational music - the album Paranoid by Black Sabbath. I remember in my psychology degree getting days that I didn’t have much music that I could listen to while writing. Then I put on Paranoid for some reason and the magic happened - it just made me want [...]
Yes, the term ‘meta’ is thrown about quite a bit these days but it’s the only way I’ve heard this kind of comedy described. To me it refers to a style of comedy that’s not so much funny in isolation but when given context and understanding of the medium it becomes funny. Not everyone seems [...]
Tags: awkward laughs, Example of Comedy, Meta Comedy, Meta Humor, Norm Mcdonald, Pilot, Sitcom, Stand Up, Steve Martin, Strange jokes, Tony Clifton
I’m a professional juggler and in general a law-abiding citizen. I’ve noticed that border guards aren’t terribly interested in the latter statement if the former is true.
One weekend a while back my friend and I decided to go to the US and do a little camping. I wasn’t to wealthy at the time so we [...]
Tags: border crossing, camping, canada, Crossing Border, funny interaction, Funny Story, international conspiracy, strange questioning, troubles with customs, U.S.A.
So I was backpacking through Europe a few years ago, like the kids do, and found that one of the more popular souvenirs on offer were Russian Nesting Dolls. I’m not one for knick-knacks so I certainly wasn’t buying any…but then one night I saw in a shop window a set of dolls painted with [...]
Tags: dolls, gene simmons, kiss, kitsch, nesting, paul stanley, prague, souvenirs, strange products
At the risk of sounding like a hack 90’s comic, what’s the DEAL with the names of tanning salons? Is there some magical relationship between punniness and a desire for orange skin?
I should state at the outset that all of the following names are real. I spent an embarrassing amount of time scouring the internet [...]
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