Things that made me laugh

[geordiesteve]

Given the recent depressing news and stuff over here in the UK with the terror alerts and so on, I thought I'd start a more positive thread about things that have really made me smile recently. It can be anything, comics, incidents and anecdotes, funny saying, whatever you like. What made you, and hopefully others when they read it, smile or laugh?

1. The Boys by Garth Ennis - I haven't laughed so much at page 2 of a comic in ages, and not laughed as hard since Guy Gardner mooned Batman.

2. Seeing Simon Cowell on X-Factor reality show getting put in his place by an 80-something woman who only came there for moral support.

3. Mark Millar's story about punching a fox!

[stealthwise]

1. "KNIFE TO THE EYE!"

2. Re-reading Top Ten

3. What's green, has four legs, and if it falls on top of you from a tree, it'll kill you?



A pool table.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Tom Scharpling did another call-in sketch with Jon Wurster (drummer for Superchunk AND funny guy extraordinaire) on The Best Show on WFMU last Tuesday. The pair have become really well-known for doing some really bizarre & outrageous stuff on there, so I was fully prepared for some serious side-splittage. Anyway, the newest one was called 'Anything Inc.' Basically Wuster called in Tom's show again, this time pretending to be head of a corporation (the aforementioned Anything Inc.) that purports to be able to make ANYTHING come true for the right price; kinda like a Bizarro World Make-A-Wish Foundation. He relates to Tom & WFMU's listeners the tale of how his great-grandfather started Anything Inc. back when he was a mere toadie for Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie apparently told one of his contemporaries how he'd pay $100 to any man who would ride a unicycle into a pile of horse dung while wearing a little boy's clothes. The great-grandfather overheard this, and did just that for Mr. Carnegie, and that was the start of the business. And it just gets more & more silly from there, as the company head goes on to tell Tom of the business's not-so-storied history. Such as how Howard Hughes once came calling to Anything Inc. (and what HE asked to make happen), a secret Beatles reunion in 1978 that has to be heard to be believed-- as well as the company's two most recent undertakings: an elaborate fantasy paid for by Bill Gates that involves the cast of 'Roadhouse,' and an Indiana lottery winner paying Anything Inc. to make his movie-- which is perhaps the STUPIDEST film of all time (also has to be heard to be believed).


I was having fits, man.