"Everything else is derivative, badly written wank..."
Although I agree, I cannot resist noting the irony that this comes from someone who chooses to post under the name of the Groucho character from a Marx Bros film... (the one where he's a bogus psychiatrist, forgotten the name).
What's the address of Brunching Shuttlecocks? I've never heard of it. Also, what's the address of Gusset, so I can judge it for myself (haven't seen it yet).
>Although I agree, I cannot resist noting the irony that this comes from someone who chooses to post under the name of the Groucho character from a Marx Bros film... (the one where he's a bogus psychiatrist, forgotten the name).
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A fair point, although I don't expect anyone to be amused by my plagiarism. Full marks, er, credit for getting the reference though. I believe it's A Day At The Races. The name seems to have been chosen entirely so that Harpo could mime it about 3/4 of the way into the film - this is part of one of the 3 funny Harpo sequences.
>What's the address of Brunching Shuttlecocks? I've never heard of it. Also, what's the address of Gusset, so I can judge it for myself (haven't seen it yet).
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They're both at www.google.com ...
No, OK, www.brunching.com and www.gussetweekly.co.uk.
BS is patchy but often quite good. It has a sort of "David Letterman on the Web" feel - but in a good way. The regular features such as Ratings (rating different things in a certain category e.g. Computer Input Devices) are somewhat amusing. They also have Toys which would only work on a computer such as acronym generators, song lyric generators etc. The best stuff is in the archives - try the "Sarcasterizer" and The Blair Family Circus Project.
It is updated every day and is probably the site that takes advantage of the Web best, although it's not as funny as The Onion.
Any comedy sites I've missed?
I forgot to mention: www.landoverbaptist.org (parody of Christian fundamentalists) and Fade to Black (www.fadetoblack.com) which are both good.
I've just looked at Gusset Weekly for the first time.
What a load of shite.
Reminiscent of one or two moments from The Day Today, however....
Now I've had a brief look at Brunching Shuttlecocks.
Looks a bit like the kind of unfunny computer-nerd in-jokery that you get too much of in the IT business (which is what I do for a living).
I won't bother with the fundamentalist parody site, because the authentic ones are depressing and ludicrous enough in themselves. Now, what's Fade to black all about?
I've seen a bit of 'fade to black'. I turned to the 'hate mail' archive. It read like a review page in Amazon.com, giving reader's responses to a book in favour of atheism. Ie. bigoted incoherent fury from religious extremists, interspersed with meandering phoney expressions of pity and baffled liberal hesitations.
I find US atheist sites generally as tedious and objectionable as the Christian sites they do battle with... anyhow I can't be bothered with the rest of 'Fadetoblack'.
Americans will just have to face the fact that British people are funnier than they are, or at least SOTCAA and Fawlty Towers are.
I haven't seen The Onion though. Is that the one that does spoof headlines for real events in 20th century history? I think I read about it in NME.
OK, you haven't seen Fade To Black until you've seen the "Where's Christ?" pictures. I hope they have them archived. It doesn't seem to be as good as it used to be though.
Are you kidding about not having seen the Onion? www.theonion.com, and they have a book of fake news reports through the 20th century which is just fantastic:
http://books.theonion.com/odc_page_kennedy.html