All this is not to fire up the tempers of gadling readers, but rather as a preface for one of my favorite Monty Python skits of all time, the Philosopher’s soccer, football, match.
Courtesy of YouTube, if this one doesn’t meet the fine criteria of a Friday Funny, I don’t know what does.
(Thanks, Howie!)
Once again, dutiful gadling readers, I must turn to one of my favorite sites for our Friday Funny: McSweeney’s. And once again, the site does not fail to disappoint.
This one, I think, is best left unexplained by me, since it has been my experience that trying to explain humor, usually dissipates the humor therein, and so I offer you merely the link here to a funny, albeit brief, faux travelogue entitled: TRAVELING EUROPE IN STYLE WITH AUCKLAND DINGIROO, DARK-AGE TOURIST AND CRITIC OF FOOD AND DRINK: WHERE NOT TO GO.
I leave to to you to determine for yourself it is funny, but the title alone is certainly worthy of a Friday giggle.
Fans of Gumby and Mr. Bill (am I dating myself?) know what humor can be wrought from the deliberate and painstaking art of stop-motion photography. While there have been low-budget experimenters with this genre for many, many years, only recently, with the advent of programs like Boinx, has the ability to do stop motion cheaply and easily been so widespread.
And so we are seeing an explosion of creativity…some good and some bad…all over the place. In particular, if you do a search for stop motion on places like You Tube, you get a gazillion hits. And one of the vids I found recently along these lines that I found mind-blowingly impressive, was this one about…well, it’s not really ABOUT anything. But it is funny. And long. And quite well done.
Folks here know what passionate fans we are of the National Parks; we blog about them endlessly as they are, in the parks own words, our nation’s family jewels. I’ll not comment editorially on the current administration’s handling of park policy because that would take far too long. The topic is worthy of an essay-length post.
And you know what, pictures speak louder than words anyway, and pictures WITH words speak louder than pictures alone. And so I offer you a few posts by one of my favorite blogs Park Remark, that show some of the editorial cartoons by David Horsey, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Good for a laugh as well as a moment of thought. Good stuff for your brain to gnaw on on this Friday.
Sometimes I feel sorry for today’s children. They have a gazillion times more television programming available to them, but so much of it is crap, it’s often impossible to find anything worth watching ,let alone something that might be considered educational or enriching. I’m talking mostly about cartoons, and thinking that, with the exception of the Simpsons, Pixar and a few scattered standouts, most cartoons today pretty much suck.
Hey, I apologize if you’re a big fan of shows like Sponge Bob Square Pants or whatever, but I’ve watched these shows, and as far as I’m concerned they pale in comparison to the old Bugs Bunny cartoons. These lovingly hand-drawn cartoons remain great works of art and the people behind them, like Chuck Jones, are heroes in my book. I doubt anyone will be able to match them for true artistry and creative narrative.
Sure, I might be a bit of a romantic. I’ll accept that to an extent. But for today’s Friday Funny, I offer you a list of the Top 50 Cartoons of All Time, most of which can be viewed online. At the top of the list (no surprise) are several Bugs cartoons…in fact, the list features a bunch of them…and sprinkled throughout are some other wonderful indies like The Big Snit. There’s nary a Sponge Pants to be found. If you’re like me, you’ll spend the next hour or so watching some of these gems, and I can think of no more perfect way to kick off the holiday season than a healthy dose of Bugs.