5 posts tagged “funny”
The digital short on last night's SNL was funnier than The Office's entire fourth season. Which probably isn't saying much, but the short is really funny.
I am obsessed with getting mail. Ever since I was little, I have loved checking the mail and seeing if there is a letter for me. Doesn't matter-postal mail, email. I love it. It's a shame that email has taken over all methods of communication, because it used to be so much fun to have pen pals and get letters. Even now, I happily check the apartment mail box or my hanging file folder at work to see if I get anything. But besides my magazine subscriptions, the only mail I ever get is spam asking me to move to another apartment, or bills. Exciting.
But to be honest, as much as I like checking my mail, I'm not too sure how I'd feel if, say, there was a letter from a serial killer waiting for me. Apparently Bill Geerhart had no problem with it. A pop culture historian, he pretended to be a ten-year-old boy soliciting advice from celebrities and serial killers, and published the results in Radar Magazine. The results are hilarious for reasons that will make you feel slightly guilty when you laugh. You can read the letters here. I promise that the results are very entertaining. The Unabomber is the only one with any sensible advice. As expected, Charles Manson's reply makes no sense and is scary. Richard Ramirez intersperses his attempt at making conversation with the repeated request to send pictures (he even has his own Nightstalker stationary! Creepy).
"Greetings. Received your letter. Glad to hear my letter to you in '99 made a difference. When do you graduate? Yeah, get me a subscription to Radar Magazine. What is it about? Know any Asian girls willing to correspond? Send pictures. You can photocopy 5 on 1 page or send 'em singular. Nothing scenic though. Send some of girls in bikinis."
For those of you put off by reading letters from serial killers, "The Billy Letters" also include correspondences with Dick Cheney and Arnold Schwarzenegger (that letter is hilarious, because Billy asks for Arnold's advice on what to do after pinching a girl's bottom, since "you do it all the time." Not surprisingly, all he received was a form letter in return.)
This collection of letters is bizarre, but undoubtedly very entertaining.
So back when I was college, if I was really bored and didn't want to study, I'd head over to here to look at really bad album covers. Patrick and I were talking about them tonight, and I felt that I had to share some goodies.
And, my personal favorite:
Apparently, it's either about a reformed addict trying to save children from the dangers of drugs, or it's a sermon aimed to save you from hell, depending on your sources. It wins for trying and epicly failing to be dramatic and instead making whoever looks at the cover break into giggles. In fact, this is a joke with my brother. We can be talking about something completely unrelated, and then one of us will suddenly say, "ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD."
Here is another good site to check out for bad album covers.
I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard at an SNL skit:
I know this next video is about a year old, but I just watched it recently. It brings back memories of the girls I went to middle school with, except we call them cholas, not chongas.
Stephen Colbert tries donating his portrait to the Smithsonian in this hilarious segment from The Colbert Report. My favorite part is 4:20 into the video.
