The DAILY FUNNY: A really premature look at Green Lantern
Looking forward to the summer blockbusters? Imaginative critic Mike Parker checks in with this animated review of what’s probably happening in the movie Green Lantern, based on the trailer. U.S. Political commentator and thoughtful journalist Andy Borowitz continues to be on a roll, with this good-as-gold exclusive on the ramifications to congress of Osama bin […]
Seinfeld blasts Edmonton with hilarious nothings July 9
Some stand-up comedians are deep, so deep that they are called the philosophers of the modern age – the only people in the world who are expected tell the harsh truth and help us laugh at the tragedies of the human condition. And there are guys like Jerry Seinfeld. Master of Minutiae, Titan of the […]
The DAILY FUNNY: Terrorist snuff fantasies and the zombie apocalypse
Hey, who better than The Onion to bring a little clarity to the question of what’s really important in the story of Osama bin Laden’s death. I mean, really? You wanna discuss geopolitical tensions and the brinksmanship of modern politics? Wha-eva. Meanwhile, if irony were a case of irony from ironyville, it couldn’t be any […]
GIGGLE CITY: Tom Green plays the Peanut Butter Game
He dry-humped a dead moose. He put a severed cow’s head in his parents’ bed. He put dog poop on a microphone and held it out to interview people on the street. He married Drew Barrymore. No, wait – that last one wasn’t supposed to be funny. Or was it? What Tom Green has done […]
The DAILY FUNNY: Royals, Dinosaurs and Tokyo’s worst
The “all-nighter” or “all-day watch” is a classic old journalism chesnut, favoured by bored columnists the world over, in the era when people were still paid to just be columnists. The premise is simple: you go experience a whole night or day of something at best semi-bearable for a few minutes — Brady Bunch Marathon, […]
The Daily Funny: Royal TV watching
You know why Charlie Brooker’s such a well-liked columnist/literary ne’er-do-well in his home nation of England? It’s his optimism. Pay witness as Charlie explains what he expects from Royal Wedding T.V. Coverage in Ye Merrie Olde Englande. It never ends. Just when you thought U.S. President Barack Obama had closed the issue of his birth […]
The DAILY FUNNY: The Donald Ducks
Turnaround is fair play in politics, and after weeks of Donald Trump harping on “birther” theories baut Barack Obama’s birth, the media has started asking the obvious question: where is the Donald’s hair from? Andy Borowitz reports. Comedian bio pics are rated in this Splitsider piece. No potential George Carlin piece is mentioned, but that’s […]
The DAILY FUNNY: Terrible, terrible truth
It’s not the size of the ship, it’s the motion of the….oh who are we kidding. Alex Balk at AWL.com ruminates on the terrible truth. If you don’t have the gift of the ….uh…girth, hit ’em with a bit of mirth! Just hope they speak English, because, contextually speaking, some things just don’t translate that […]
The DAILY FUNNY: More-or-less contemplative birds
All right, it’s been 48 hours since 4-20 and we no longer have to officially pretend we like our dirty hippie doobie smoking friend’s lousy habits. With that in mind, check out these honest anti-marijuana PSAs that even your most hoolied of amigos can understand. Meanwhile, if you’ve been fretting over the fact that you’re […]
The DAILY FUNNY: More Royal Wedding yuks
Ah, Royal Weddings. How well we recalled as young ‘uns getting up in the wee hours for Chuck and Di’s nuptials….then wondering why we didn’t just sleep in at least until sun rise when the bloody thing still wasn’t over. With their eldest spawn, Wills, about to marry the com-pletely dishy Kate Middleton, Britain’s answer […]
