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Friday Funnies

On the road with Rod Blagojevich

Henry Payne | 1.16.2009 7:00 AM

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  1. Gus Chiggins   18 years ago

    I mean, is this really supposed to be funny? It's not even clever.

  2. Jim Bob   18 years ago

    Blago could stand in for Hugo.

  3. Technomist   18 years ago

    But when was the last one which was?

  4. TofuSushi   18 years ago

    I do not get it either.

  5. Reinmoose   18 years ago

    I'm not even going to say it - you know what I'm thinking.

  6. joe   18 years ago

    Burris isn't an Obama crony.

    Burris isn't a Blagojevich crony.

    I don't get it.

  7. TofuSushi   18 years ago

    Quit agreeing with me out of habit Joe.

  8. JLM   18 years ago

    Let me be the first to submit some official 2009 performance feedback for Mr. Payne:

    "This employee has hit rock bottom and has started to dig"

  9. domoarrigato   18 years ago

    "Friday Funnies"

    Only half true.

  10. Xeones   18 years ago

    January 16, 2009, 7:00am

    Looks like someone still didn't have an idea at 6:30 this morning.

  11. TofuSushi   18 years ago

    Wondering what came first. The meaning less wording or the stupid drawing.

  12. Episiarch   18 years ago

    Massively weak. While I enjoy ripping on the Friday Funnies (since they deserve it), I must agree with joe here. Stupid is as stupid does.

  13. Warren   18 years ago

    Looks like Payne's got a case of Bokkalism. When was the last time we got anything from Bagge?

    Can't we do without the "Friday Funnies" and just link to the Onion instead?

  14. Lefiti   18 years ago

    Market fundamentalists avoid doing stuff on private sector crooks, don't they? What about Bernie Madoff, you sniveling zealots of confirmation bias fucks?

  15. Bingo   18 years ago

    It's not even a comic - its just some wording with a drawing attached to it. Neither one plays into the other.

  16. JLM   18 years ago

    Nothing seems to bring this group together like Friday funnies.

  17. phalkor   18 years ago

    why is it a picture of Gillespie? I don't get it.

  18. TofuSushi   18 years ago

    why is it a picture of Gillespie? I don't get it.

    That is supposed to be a leather coat?

  19. Warty   18 years ago

    If I ever met Henry Payne, I would knee him in the balls.

  20. Jay S.   18 years ago

    I'm not laughing at yet another edition of Friday Fail.

  21. joe   18 years ago

    Lefiti's 9:33 comment is much, much funnier than this comic.

    ... you sniveling zealots of confirmation bias fucks C'mon, that's funny. Grammatical nonsense, but funny and evocative.

  22. joe   18 years ago

    Lefiti's like Kerouac sometimes.

    You don't understand what he writes, so much as feel it.

  23. Episiarch   18 years ago

    If I ever met Henry Payne, I would knee him in the balls.

    He can retract them into his body like a ninja. All comic drawers can. Punch him in the throat instead.

  24. joe   18 years ago

    If that bumper sticker read "You sniveling zealots of confirmation bias fucks," this comic would have actually been funny.

  25. Reinmoose   18 years ago

    yeah - I got distracted, but I was going to say what joe said about how Leftiti is funnier than the commic.

    I have plenty of laughs here every week, and none of them come from Friday Funnies... hmmm

  26. P Brooks   18 years ago

    Punch him in the throat instead.

    Stab him in the eye with your mechanical pencil.

    Better yet, stab him in the eye with his mechanical pencil.

  27. Nick   18 years ago

    Is this a paid gig?

    I feel I could do better and I can't draw for shit.

  28. EJM   18 years ago

    Can't we do without the "Friday Funnies" and just link to the Onion instead?

    Will do.

    (The related story graphic alone is funnier than any "Friday Funnies" segment ever.)

  29. PapayaSF   18 years ago

    How about if the bumper sticker reads:

    Become a Senator now!
    Ask me how!

    Taking off on the Herbalife slogan. (OK, it would have been funnier weeks ago, but it's still better....)

  30. joe   18 years ago

    Redo the cartoon, with quotes from the FBI tapes:

    "Bleep you."

    "Don't give those bleeping people bleep."

    "Consideration? Bleep that!"

    "Bleep it, I'll apoint (redacted.)"

  31. Lefiti   18 years ago

    Joe,

    How is it grammatical nonsense? "Fucks" is a noun, you illiterate fuck.

  32. Jon   15 years ago

    http://www.freshporn.org
    http://desihotpics.org

  33. ?????   15 years ago

    thank you man

  34. Scarpe Nike   15 years ago

    is good

  35. mbt discount   15 years ago

    good

  36. caibutou   14 years ago

    thanks

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