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Scientology Wins! Pop Culture Defeats Psychology on the Subject of Humor
Please note: this article contains three references to genital injury, two of them illustrated. You have been warned. Plato said that comedy comes from enjoying the suffering of others. Aristotle argued that comedy comes from the ridiculous or from deformities…
Law and Order Improv
I’m Just Kiddin’ Like Jason: Parodying the Ridiculous
What’s the difference between a parody and its source material – if the source material was already pretty ridiculous?
New (Fake) Facebook Features
Adventures in Branding: Doritos Late Night
“Mucho gusto, Señor,” she breathed breathily, pursing her beestung lips into a smile. “Perhaps you will care to join me for… Tacos at Midnight?”
The Spider House Rules
So last May (that’s May 2007), Matt “Call Me the Webmaster” Wrather and I were taking in The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy of plays by Tom Stoppard. It covers the part of Russian history most people don’t know a…
Episode 9: Indy Movies
All Episodes Subscribe in iTunes Wrather is joined by Belinkie, Fenzel, Shechner, and Stokes to rate Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on a 5-whip scale. (Spoiler alert: The movie earns a “whip it”, but not a…
Back before we had a blog…
… if we wanted to entertain ourselves on the internets, we had to make stuff like this. I can’t believe some admin hasn’t deleted it yet. It’s been, what, five years now? That’s a pretty durable piece of vandalism.
Beating the Joke to Death: Lasagna Cat Follow-up
I find some things funny by virtue of my singular personality and strange sense of humor. Other things I find funny because they are actually awesome. If you’ve been reading this week, you know that I could Lasagna Cat by…