Friday Funnies

Pakistan's next leader

Scott Stantis | August 22, 2008

Comments

Elemenope|8.22.08 @ 7:47AM|#

It's exactly "funny", but at least it's topical.

Elemenope|8.22.08 @ 7:47AM|#

It's NOT exactly "funny"...

Christ, I just woke up.

|8.22.08 @ 8:18AM|#

Let the Friday "not so funny" bashing begin!

Well, maybe after people get off of that Chapman bashing thread about the drinking age. Man that was a bad article ..

|8.22.08 @ 8:31AM|#

Anything's better than Bok.

Nigel Watt|8.22.08 @ 8:41AM|#

I hate it when I get a joke, but it's so obvious that there's no reason to laugh. That happens every Friday here.

|8.22.08 @ 9:13AM|#

|8.22.08 @ 9:17AM|#

The moose says nothing. I think that's appropriate for this cartoon.

|8.22.08 @ 9:18AM|#

Well, maybe after people get off of that Chapman bashing thread about the drinking age. Man that was a bad article

Yeah no kidding. This "funny" isn't funny but I just can't get behind bashing it after that Chapman swill. Maybe we should continue to bash Steve, his fascism being so much more offensive than Scott is unfunny.

|8.22.08 @ 9:18AM|#

Man, that's scary.

|8.22.08 @ 9:25AM|#

Get over it.

|8.22.08 @ 9:30AM|#

In the interest of rewarding improvements in behavior, I'll say that this comic wasn't soul-numbingly bad. Certainly not funny, and it stradles the line between caractature and racism before squeezing back across to acceptability, but as someone said above, *anything* is better than Bok.

|8.22.08 @ 9:35AM|#

Hilarious! Next, he should make a cartoon of Chavez doing something. That would rock.

J|8.22.08 @ 9:48AM|#

Not funny. Still, I'd say it's not bad either, overall.

|8.22.08 @ 10:20AM|#

Next week- a dog biting a mailman!

Uproarious.

|8.22.08 @ 10:55AM|#

The Taliban with nuclear weapons? Man, that's funny. It'll be even funnier when my shadow is burned into the pavement.

|8.22.08 @ 11:03AM|#

The big "red button" was a nice touch, but it would be better with a big wooden crate with "radioactive" stickers all over it in the back of a cart being pulled by a scrawny, moth-eaten donkey. The crate cold have: "to: Uncle Sam- Do not open 'til Xmas" on it.

|8.22.08 @ 11:29AM|#

at least it is well-drawn. and what the artist is getting at is clear. and it's not like *bad* or really racist or like mind-numbingly 180-degrees wrong. as friday funnies go here it isn't bad.

now they should do a funny one.

|8.22.08 @ 11:51AM|#

Taliban-types get their butts kicked in Pakistani elections.

duster|8.22.08 @ 12:38PM|#

To be fair, how many standard one-frame political cartoons has anyone seen that are actually funny.

|8.22.08 @ 1:11PM|#

To be fair, how many standard one-frame political cartoons has anyone seen that are actually funny.

I saw one once that involved Jefferson dressed as Robespierre, holding the severed heads of Adams and Washington while surrounded by his half-slave children that was run in the paper during the election of 1800 that was worth a chuckle.

|8.22.08 @ 6:40PM|#

I don't catch many editorial cartoons, but this one from a couple of months ago made me LOL, as much for the caricature of the figure at far right (physically, not politically, right) as for the joke. [Disclaimer: the cartoonist is a hometown hero of mine, so I admit some lack of objectivity.]:
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=24048

(Could a kind regular - if there are any kind ones here - point me toward a handy guide to tags, text links, etc. for use in H&R comments, if there is one here?)

|8.22.08 @ 8:57PM|#

Nobody ever made the mistake of calling me kind, but I'll help anyway. You just use standard html; you can find a cheat sheet here

|8.23.08 @ 7:34AM|#

point me toward a handy guide to tags, text links, etc. for use in H&R comments,

You can also find some html tutorials here and here.

|8.23.08 @ 7:43AM|#

Taliban-types get their butts kicked in Pakistani elections.

Yeah, and democracy types get their butts kicked in the coups that follow Pakistanni elections. ;-)

smartass sob|8.23.08 @ 7:51AM|#

The Taliban with nuclear weapons? Man, that's funny. It'll be even funnier when my shadow is burned into the pavement.

Think that's a laugh? How's this: Bush International about a year ago instituted direct, non-stop flights from Pakistan to Houston. You may recall that the Houston, Texas area is home to probably the large petro-chemical complexes in the country. I'm laughing so hard it hurts.

smartass sob|8.23.08 @ 8:37AM|#

Bush International about a year ago...

Er, make that Bush Intercontinental.

|8.23.08 @ 9:46AM|#

Fair enough, smartass sob, but even then, the nice men in natty uniforms and mirrored sunglasses also don't tend to be Taliban-types.

smartass sob|8.23.08 @ 10:28AM|#

the nice men in natty uniforms and mirrored sunglasses also don't tend to be Taliban-types.

Oh. I thought I had read that a significant portion of Pakastanni military or security force officers are pro-Taliban.

|8.23.08 @ 2:02PM|#

Yeah, but not the ones that won't get gunned down during the (chuckling as I type it) "secretly US-funded" coup. Isn't it great to have a CIA to protect us from the horrendous evil that they unleashed upon the world?

|8.23.08 @ 3:59PM|#

Isn't it great to have a CIA to protect us from the horrendous evil that they unleashed upon the world?

That who released upon the world - the Taliban or the CIA? What is the evil to which you refer? (I can't tell from what you typed.)