Friday Funnies

A teachable moment

Chip Bok | 1.15.2010 7:00 AM

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Kyle Jordan 15 years ago

A.

Burn in Hell, spam filter.
SIV 15 years ago

Are they drinking malt liquor?
1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
  
  Drinking malt liquor out of a glass (if even a mug) is quite hoity-toity.
  1. JB 15 years ago
    
    I heard it's 'negro-dialecty'.
    1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
      
      Ah, so.
Crackers Boy 15 years ago

RACIST!
ed 15 years ago

A bit dated (it was a whole week ago!) but funny 'cause, you know, it's true.
Just Sayin' 15 years ago

Harry Reid - poster child for Morons Across America.

About as inarticulate a person as you can find.
1. poo - tee - weet 15 years ago
  
  Harry Reid - poster child for Morons Mormons Across America.
  
  FIFY
  1. Untermensch 15 years ago
    
    actually, very few Mormons will claim Harry Reid as one of their own.
    1. kodiac1221 15 years ago
      
      why not?, they are lunatics, hes a lunatic. Its a match made in insano heaven
      1. Sudden 15 years ago
        
        IMO, Mormons are a slightly more palatable form of lunacy. And that says a great deal about the level of Reid's lunacy.
        
        PapayaSF 15 years ago
        
        The fact that he's an ex-boxer might have something to do with it.
    2. George Carlin re: Mormons 15 years ago
      
      "I'm goin' to Utah!"
      
      "What fer?"
      
      "To see Joe Smith!"
      
      "Ahh, well, I gotta go take a shit. Tell Joe I said hello."
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

That's the a problem with Friday Funnies, things that happen on Monday tend to look dated on Friday. I say we should have Friday Funnies every day!!!
1. Untermensch 15 years ago
  
  Friday Funnies every day would cause the Reason Universe to implode under its own dead weight. Admittedly this is a better one than normal, but if these appeared every day they might as well close shop now.
The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago

I do notice that the cartoon is set in some scary and possibly haunted woods (Camp David?). I love the vague air of menace that Bok put in this piece.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

I too was wondering why they were having mochas in a Tim Burton film.
The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago

Good point, FoE. The dark umbers and pale whites along with the German Expressionist arrangement of the trees gives a very Burtonesque aesthetic to this cartoon.
1. Sudden 15 years ago
  
  I was thinking more Toulouse-Lautrec
The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago

Bok gets an "A" for subconsciously evoking dread in the minds of his audience.
BakedPenguin 15 years ago

Art - also, for being funny.
1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
  
  Yeah, it is pretty good. Maybe I wasn't overly enthused because I just got done reading the latest Seanbaby, which had me laughing until I vomited.
  1. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
    
    Link?
    1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
      
      http://www.cracked.com/blog/wo.....itas-skull
      
      It's probably only funny if you like MMA.
FrBunny 15 years ago

I get the Biden and Reid thing, but why are they having drinks with Martin Landau in a swim cap?
1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
  
  It's surrealism, FrBunny.
  1. SugarFree 15 years ago
    
    "Art for breakfast! Art for lunch!"
Xeones 15 years ago

I say we should have Friday Funnies every day!!!

I am going to come to your house and punch you in the neck. Don't even joke about that idea, dude.
the innominate one 15 years ago

This must be some kind of mistake. Bok's cartoon is funny and topical. It works, possibly for the first time ever.
Xeones 15 years ago

BakedPenguin, hier.
SugarFree 15 years ago

"One day Hitler farted and dead babies fell out of his ass. He was like, wtf, where did all these did babies come from and then Paris Hilton vagina. Also sodomy."
1. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
  
  Wow. I've seen all of those here at H&R.
2. Sudden 15 years ago
  
  That doesnt make any sense as a joke, or even a sentance. haha
3. wingnutx 15 years ago
  
  That article is gold.
BakedPenguin 15 years ago

Xeones, thx. SF - those Cracked comics are almost as good as the Jay Pinkerton ones.
1. SugarFree 15 years ago
  
  Pinkerton works for Cracked now.
  
  Did you see Man Comics?
  
  "Go ahead and shoot me in the back. If your bullets are anything like your son, they'll stop when they get halfway in and start crying."
  1. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
    
    "I don't know whether to be more offended that you thought my wife was my son or that you slept with her." Yeah.
    
    I should have known that was Pinkerton. Non sequitir comedy is hard to get right, but he nails it most of the time.
    1. SugarFree 15 years ago
      
      "I want to kill this kid so bad my dick is grinding its teeth."
      1. JB 15 years ago
        
        Dimples baby.
Xeones 15 years ago

Seanbaby is the best. His homemade fireworks articles from back in the day always make me proud to be an American.
Warren 15 years ago

Not funny
Minimally topical
Middling Artwork

Grade D+
1. . 15 years ago
  
  Warren is like Mikey. He hates everything.
P Brooks 15 years ago

Obama is obviously Dorothy, and Biden is the one with no brain, so Reid must be the tin man. Krugman is, of course, Toto.

What did I win?
1. JB 15 years ago
  
  A country run by morons?
  
  So, you lose.
P Brooks 15 years ago

I say we should have Friday Funnies every day!!!

This, combined with your execrable taste in movies, leads me to suspect you will die horribly.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Don't even joke about that idea, dude.

Let's not forget - let's not forget - that I'm also the strongest and most resolute champion here for threaded comments. So my various advocacies should be weighted against that.
Xeones 15 years ago

Fist, i'm reminded of an old Russian saying: "A spoonful of shit ruins a whole bucket of honey." Take that as you will.
1. . 15 years ago
  
  Only if it's mixed really well.
JB 15 years ago

Better if it had Bryd at the table..."don't look at me! I didn't call HIM the n-word!"
HeadTater 15 years ago

Not nearly enough gaffes for that to be Biden in the cartoon. Obama's ears aren't big enough. It isn't nearly as racist as it should be.
Rimfax 15 years ago

Why is Bill Cosby there? And why is the bad guy from Phantasm calling him "Harry"? Does it mean something special that Steven Hawking isn't in a wheelchair?
abercrombie milano 15 years ago

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abercrombie milano 15 years ago

Not nearly enough gaffes for that to be Biden in the cartoon. Obama's ears aren't big enough. It isn't nearly as racist as it should be.
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