Monday Roundup

Favorites and duds from today's commenting.

Favorites, in no particular order:

Here's ye olde such-and-such-former-famous-person-is-poor joke from Madoffs Mets in the Daily Screencap post. I like these for obvious reasons: they usually involve a quick-moving bit of misdirection and they poke fun at vulnerable targets. Later, he apparently ended the internet with this well-made one-liner in the Pro Bowl Fan Brawl post. That's a terrific joke, the kind of thing that could easily show up in a late night talk show opening monologue.

Bevraj of Choice dropped one of my favorite jokes from Monday in the Charles Barkley post. I'm surprised this one didn't get a bit more attention. It's got all the right pieces: it's quick, it's elegant, it's smart, it's silly . . . great joke.

Here's an excellent riff on a well-known title from Same Sad Echo in the Charles Barkley post. I love the funny-by-accumulation jokes. No punchline required. Good stuff. Later, Same Sad Echo dropped this wordplay dig in the Louie Armstrong  Anderson post, and even later, he cracked me up with this short and sweet Phil Mickelson joke in the Effort Bowl post. This guy!

Here's another funny-by-accumulation joke, this time from Raysism in the Unkillable Trent Williams post. Okay, well, this one does supply something like a punchline at the end, but you're already laughing by then. Later, Raysism brought the house down with the best use of the mistake in the Louie Armstrong Anderson post. Really either of these comments could have been Comment of the Day, but I'm giving it to this second one. Hilarious. This joke will not be very accessible now that the mistake has been corrected, but that's just the way that goes.

Here's a terrific dialogue joke from Steve U in the Unkillable Trent Williams post. Apparently this is a COTY!!1!1 nominee. All that aside, it's hilarious. I love the jokes that find an original and absurd way of filling in the blanks in a particular news story. And later, here's a dynamite joke in the Louie Armstrong Anderson post. Holy smokes, that's great. This could very easily have been Comment of the Day, too.

Here's a fun thread in the Lance Armstrong's "Creep" post, featuring FreemanMcNeil, Same Sad Echo, Bring Back Anthony Mason, Raysism, SavetoFavorites, and others. Definitely worth checking out.

BlairWalshProject is back for more with this excellent extended quote in the Dull Joe Flacco post. This is very encouraging. Keep it up!

Here's a characteristically thoughtful and well-crafted dig from All Over But The Sharting in the Dull Joe Flacco post. I like about this joke that it doesn't give any sort of head-fake or indication in any direction with the opening line. It takes its time getting to the reveal and then packages 100% of its action in the final 17 syllables. The opening line is almost its reason for being, and then comes the joke. Excellent.

Here's a wonderful catch from RMJ=H in the Dull Joe Flacco post. It's funny sometimes what you don't notice in a given post's accompanying art, but the joke fits the photo so explicitly I had a bizarre moment when I wondered if RMJ=H had somehow shopped it. That's a hell of a pull. Great joke.

BronzeHammer cracked me up with this abrupt glance into the future in the Sob Story post. I just love how to-the-point this joke is. I feel like every word that wasn't put between the italicized line and the "we're both hacks" line would have significantly diminished the potency of the joke. And that kind of thing all comes down to the talent of the joke-maker and that sense of how to maximize the impact of your punchline. This is a fantastic joke.

If this kind of comment, from David Hume in the Sob Story post, doesn't make you sort of sit back and shake your head and smile and think about all the wide world of humor and storytelling out there for the taking, well, you're probably not nearly as lost down this miserable rabbit hole as I am. No set-up, no knockout punchline, no schtick, just a calm, thoughtful, breezy, beautifully confident version of the same angle BronzeHammer took in the same post. I love this stuff, if for no other reason than it reminds me that all that blabbering I do about condensing your idea into a tight punchline and positioning it carefully and yadda yadda is mostly just a boring by-the-numbers way of being funny. Be funny! Burn this blog! Be funny.

Bring Back Anthony Mason invoked Goatse with this awesome one-liner in the Chris Kluwe post, to the delight of the crowd. This is a crowd pleaser, a clever and savage dig at a hugely unpopular public figure. Sometimes you just have to know your audience. Also, am I the only person who sort of thinks Chris Kluwe is annoying and less than a tenth as funny/interesting/intelligent/clever as he thinks he is? I'm probably the only one. Nevermind.

DougExeter squeezed some juice out of a well-worn angle with this recontextualization in the Japanese Bat Flipping post. This joke hits the bullseye, which is fortunate, because I have a feeling it wouldn't have taken much for it to land with an echoing thud. DougExeter is a talented enough commenter to pick just the right way to work that reference into a winner. Good stuff.

I laughed at this wordplay joke from TheCarlosRuizSpanishEnglishDictionary in the Ravens Cheerleader Petition post. It takes two separate bits of information from the post and finds a clever way to draw them together into a tight little one-liner. That's a sharp bit of humor, there.

Here's IronMikeGallego hopping on the silly train in the Kwame Harris post. That's great. This joke has so many working parts. It offers a few lukewarm little pun-like jokes-within-a-joke in the opening, and then throws in a huge curveball at the end, turning absurd at just the right moment. And it gives us Kwame Harris as a . . . err . . . straight man along the way. Excellent.

And finally, here's Tulos Mullet (Tom Ley) being a wise guy in the Marshall Henderson post. Impossible to not laugh at this. Boy would this guy ever be welcome back at the commenting table.

Total Fucking Duds

Skipping the duds today. Thanks for understanding.

So, clearly we're still not back on schedule. I went to a basketball game last night and got home late and punished myself by eating leftover pasta and a bowl of granola with approximately half a gallon of honey poured over the top. Also, man, that's a lot of fucking Favorites. At any rate, forgive me.

Keep an eye out for Tuesday's Roundup tonight. So help me God.

The Week In Review And Then Some

First with the awards.

Last Week's Swinging Dicks

In a massive six-way tie for third place, co-winners of a collection of armed and loaded mousetraps from my freezing cold basement: StuartScottsEye, Gamboa Constrictor, Bring Back Anthony Mason, Madoffs Mets, Theodore Donald Kerabatsos, and The Amazing Sneijderman, with 2 Favorites each in the past five days.

Here's my favorite comment from StuartScottsEye from last week. Such a complete joke. Great job.

Here's my favorite comment from Gamboa Constrictor from last week. It's a great Idiot joke.

Here's my favorite comment from Bring Back Anthony Mason from last week. Really, either of his jokes from Wednesday could be here. They were both spectacular.

Here's my favorite comment from Madoffs Mets from last week. Silly goose.

Here's my favorite comment from Theodore Donald Kerabatsos from last week. This guy's unbelievable.

Here's my favorite comment from The Amazing Sneijderman from last week. That's a great one-liner.

In an only slightly less annoying five-way tie for second place, co-winners of a collection of sprung mousetraps from my freezing cold basement: Eddie Murray Sparkles, Raysism, Steve U, RMJ=H, and IronMikeGallego, with 3 Favorites each in the past five days.

Here's my favorite comment from Eddie Murray Sparkles from last week. Smart and goofy and great.

Here's my favorite comment from Raysism from last week. A perfectly executed dig.

Here's my favorite comment from Steve U from last week. This joke has a really funny payoff.

Here's my favorite comment from RMJ=H from last week. This one killed the crowd.

Here's my favorite comment from IronMikeGallego from last week. It's like a pump fake that sends half the defense scrambling 30 yards in the wrong direction.

And alone in first place, proud winner of a collection of brutally mangled and mostly frozen mouse bodies from my freezing cold basement: DougExeter with 4 Favorites in the past five days.

Here's my favorite comment from DougExeter from last week. Another excellent one-liner.

Enjoy!

But there's more!

The Monday Comment of the Day from StuartScottsEye.

The Tuesday Comment of the Day from Theodore Donald Kerabatsos.

The Wednesday Comment of the Day from SavetoFavorites.

The Thursday Comment of the Day from Madoffs Mets.

The Friday Comment of the Day from Theodore Donald Kerabatsos.

Congratulations, all.

The Unwelcome Lesson of the Week

So, many ages ago, Earless and I spent some time talking about joke-making, and out of this conversation emerged an approach to jokes that essentially treats a punchline like a hunk of beef. And, because Earless is smart and articulate and also a great joke-maker, he did most of the talking and I did the oohing and ahhing. But I have the blog and the rest is history. So, forget everything in this first paragraph and continue reading below.

The general idea is that there are two basic ways of cooking a hunk of beef: hot and fast, and low and slow. And, because I was just watching Alton Brown on television, I feel qualified to talk about why you might want to cook one hunk of beef hot and fast and another low and slow.

Hot and fast cooking is for those very tender, very tasty cuts of meat that could be eaten raw - really, you're cooking the meat at all because you, Manly Master of Nature, believe you can improve upon its God-and-cow-given deliciousness. But really, a nice thick cut of grass-fed beef tenderloin requires the briefest touch of a smoking-hot pan or grill for a good sear, and you're letting the fresh, blood-red interior carry the meal. That's where the action is. Minimal seasoning, minimal cook-time, just a quick application of high heat to give the outside a nice crunch and seal in the juices. Delicious.

Then there's low and slow, and low and slow cooking is for tough, fibrous, somewhat less delicious parts of the cow: the ribs, the shoulder, the butt, the parts of the cow certain fancy types might otherwise toss to the dogs. Barbecue is brined and rubbed and cooked over low heat for half a day and then served with spicy, vinegary sauce because, hey, it's not exactly made from the most wonderful part of the pig. Beef brisket - same deal. Low and slow is all about the untapped and deeply hidden potential of an otherwise forgettable hunk of meat.

When you or I look at a cow, we see a big loud smelly animal chewing cud. When I look at a dead skinned cow, I see a room spinning round and round and then blackness and then my wife standing over me with a look of grim resignation and a nice man holding smelling salts. When a butcher looks at a dead skinned cow, he sees opportunities. A relatively inert hunk of muscle hidden in the most docile part of a docile animal? Top dollar. A big strong hunk of thickly fibered muscle from the animal's powerful hindquarters? Barbecue. Brisket. One way or another, he sees potential, a way to turn that part of that animal into something delicious, and therefore something worth trading for money.

The Deadspin commenter is not so unlike the butcher. Each post is a slaughtered cow, freshly skinned and cleaned and oh God where's the bucket [blacks out]

. . . hanging there . . . wwwrrrrviscera exposed . . . oh God . . .

[smelling salts]

[!]

Each post requires that you, the butcher/joke-maker, have the creativity and wisdom to see, within the content, avenues to humor, opportunities, potential. And each avenue, each angle, will require an application of language that falls somewhere between hot and fast and low and slow. And you will generally know the difference via your own honed sense of how funny an idea is all on its own. But, as we all know from watching Steve U and SavetoFavorites and Gamboa Constrictor and Theodore Donald Kerabatsos, there's potential everywhere in that post. Every cut of meat can be salvaged by the right application of heat, and every angle in the post can be salvaged with the right application of language. Maybe your limp pun isn't ready to carry the plate in a one-liner, maybe it needs dialogue or a big long paragraph, or maybe it needs to be an Idiot joke. Apply words and creativity as a chef would apply heat, and you're on your way.

Hey, enjoy the Pro Bowl, eat well, and be rested and ready tomorrow for another full week of kickass jokes.

Friday Roundup

Favorites and duds from today's commenting.

Favorites, in no particular order:

Here's something ridiculous and silly from RMJ=H in the Tino Tuiasosopo post. This joke is about misdirection and really demonstrates the letting-the-air-out-of-the-balloon mechanic with the way it turns something weighty and personal into the absurd. Good stuff.

Here's an awkward unintended consequence joke from David Hume in the Twitter Ban post. No punchline, just an evocative description of the moment after the ban goes into effect. That's terrific.

BlairWalshProject earned a round of applause for this creative rewrite in the Carl Pavano post. All BlairWalshProject did was change the name and a single word. Interestingly enough, most of the time these jokes rise or fall based upon how little editing is done to the original title. It's sort of a high-wire act, with the author getting credit for spotting a nuanced change that has a major impact. Generally, the more you twist and alter the title, the more desperate and uninspired the joke seems. Anyway, good shit. Stick around and make some jokes.

Here's a dynamite comment from All Over But The Sharting in the Marlins Park post. Incredible. This may not be today's Comment of the Day, but it really could be. It's such a perfect combination of funny and smart and relevant. Holy smokes.

Here's a smart, funny wordplay joke from IronMikeGallego in the Marlins Park post. This is a big huge head-fake, and I love it. This joke has the unique characteristic of seeming to have something to say, such that you can almost trace the phantom continuation of the head-fake arc. He really sets it up - IronMikeGallego's going to make a joke having to do with abandoned loans and bankruptcy and Jeffrey Loria . . . oh wait, oh man what the fuck. Later, he went with a sharp one-liner-ish joke in the Texas Sexual Assault post. This joke pivots on a pretty incredible reuse of the phrase "miscarriage[s] of justice". That's a hell of a joke.

Here's a savage dig at the Marlins from The Amazing Sneijderman in the Marlins Park post. Several commenters went with the whole "the Marlins suck" idea in this post, but this was by far the best. Not just the specific angle, but the sharp, pared down delivery. Great comment.

This is a great, great comment, from StuartScottsEye in the Texas Sexual Assault post. This also could have been the Comment of the Day. It amounts to a misunderstanding, with the result revealing an unflattering stereotype of Texans. What doesn't matter is whether or not the characterization of Texans is true. The only thing that matters is that it makes use of a known stereotype in a funny, original way. In that way, we're laughing more at the perception of Texans than at their redneckedness (<-- real word? No.). And the specific pull here is just so good. I loved this joke.

Here's a funny comment from DougExeter in the Cedric Benson's Dogs post. So, this joke doesn't have misdirection, it obscures the reference. And I love that. As the goofball who praised the joke in the replies while simultaneously stepping all over it pointed out, DougExeter did a great job of making the reference without spelling it out. What does that do? That's right, the cognitive delay. And, holy smokes, look at that reply from dailylama. What a fucking idiot. I would love to shove that guy down an open manhole.

This is such a smart little joke, which is interesting, because it's also so, so stupid, from Eddie Murray Sparkles in the Cedric Benson's Dogs post. So stupid. This is sort of part of what is great about Eddie Murray Sparkles, that sense that an intensely powerful intellect is being wasted on some incredibly stupid, silly, off-the-wall references. The whole idea of the proposed Celebrity Kickboxing match is just so absurd and ridiculous, it's hard not to laugh. But then you're also doing the whole "whoa, how the hell did he pull that together?" thing. Later, Eddie Murray Sparkles took a good natured shot at Deadspin's staff with this simple, funny one-liner in the Dead Letters post. That's great.

There's something wonderfully charming about the ridiculous excessiveness of this joke from Same Sad Echo in the Inside The NBA post. Same Sad Echo is one of the very best at packing personality into his jokes, and this is just another great example.

Here's your Comment of the Day, from Theodore Donald Kerabatsos in the Dead Letters post. On a day that featured several outstanding comments, this is far and away the best. It takes advantage of some of what we know or have been told about AJ Daulerio, the legend of Daulerio. In that way, it's not so different from StuartScottsEye's joke about Texans. But unlike a one-liner, this comment uses the format of the post as an opportunity to pour amazing details into the joke until, by accumulation, it has become a deadly-hysterical masterpiece. No text is wasted, from the opening Subject line on. Deadspin regulars will remember this joke forever.

Here's some inside baseball from Poignant Theater in the Dead Letters post. No matter, it's hilarious. The idea that Gamboa's Idiot sense of humor is a hereditary trait is just fantastic. I laughed aloud at this.

Total Fucking Duds

I think we've reached the point where this joke, from iknowsoftware in the Texas Sexual Assault post, and all its buddies have become boring and unoriginal. I don't doubt that there are still funny comments to be made about Manti Te'o and the imaginary girlfriend, but the time has come where some originality and creativity in the delivery and a fresh angle or two will be required. This kind of joke has been made and made and made.

Some heavy hitters up in the Favorites, eh? A nice mix of regulars, newbies, and old-timers today. Great to see cameos from David Hume, All Over But The Sharting, and Theodore Donald Kerabatsos on the same day, as well as the continued resurgence of IronMikeGallego and Eddie Murray Sparkles. Let's hope it continues!

Hey, that's it. Look out for a Week in Review sometime later today. Here's hoping you're having the best weekend yet.

Thanks for reading.

Thursday Roundup

Favorites and duds from today's commenting.

Favorites, in no particular order:

I suppose it's worth wondering at this point whether Gamboa Constrictor is the master of my heart Idiot jokes. I mean, just look at this thing, from the Daily Screencap post. Ridiculous. And every time I see one of these, it gets juuust a little bit funnier.

I really enjoyed this awkward sequence from Madoffs Mets in the Ronaiah Tuiasosopo post. So silly. There's your Comment of the Day for Thursday.

Here's something stupid and funny from RMJ=H in the Ronaiah Tuiasosopo post. This is almost a practical joke - the joke is on you, the reader, like the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side. It's all about the misdirection, the misdirection is the punchline. I love it.

Here's another goofy wordplay joke, this time from Raysism in the Lou Holtz post. Methicans . . . seems like everyone brought their silly hats today. Speaking of which, look at this fucking thing in the Manti Te'o Interview Live Blog post. Goofball. Good stuff.

Hey, whaddya know, another supremely silly joke, this time from The Amazing Sneijderman in the Lou Holtz post. I laughed.

And here's a great wordplay joke utilizing a familiar structure from IronMikeGallego in the Rachel Nichols Twitter post. That's very sharp. It's great to see IronMikeGallego back in the mix.

Total Fucking Duds

No duds.

Friday's coming soon. I hate to be so late on these and to bang them out with so little content, but shit's crazy around the Shitehawk residence these days. Look for a Week In Review sometime on Sunday, and we'll try to get back on schedule next week. Thanks for your patience and for your wonderful, wonderful jokes.

Wednesday Roundup

Favorites and duds from today's commenting.

Favorites, in no particular order:

Here's a really terrific one-liner from Bring Back Anthony Mason in the Katie Couric Interview post. So creative. The meat of the joke is the unit of measurement, and Bring Back Anthony Mason gives us all the information about it before giving us its name, and he does it all in one tightly constructed sentence. That's perfect delivery. Obviously this stuff is sort of old hat for Deadspin regulars, but it's really impressive when measured against all the other, less successful ways this joke can be made. Later, Bring Back Anthony Mason delivered this amazing noir-ish joke in the Jim Irsay post. Most days, either of those jokes could be Comment of the Day. Just two spectacular comments.

Here's a great one-line dig from Raysism in the Katie Couric Interview post. I like the dry, bare-bones delivery on this one. In a way, it finds the middle ground between asserting the punchline as fact and just ripping the guy's style choices. I hope that makes sense. In other words, you could call the sweater ugly by just saying, "damn that's one ugly sweater", or you could create a fictional scenario to literally explain the choice of clothing. Raysism's joke reads like a dig, the kind of thing you might say to a coworker wearing a terrible sweater - it supposes how he came to be wearing it and uses the absurdity of the guess as an indicator of the ugliness of the clothing. I swear this all makes sense to me.  Later, Raysism earned a huge round of applause for this killer photoshop joke in the Redskins Catfish post. No analysis required - just look at that fucking thing. Good stuff.

Here's a charming reference from ScientificMapp in the Redskins Catfish post. It's hard not to love this. It's a clever enough pull, but the joke is funny for using a spot-on characterization of the Cathy comic strip as its conflict. It's sort of adorable, actually. Anyway, great joke.

Steve U was on fire today. Here's a dynamite one-liner in the Redskins Catfish post. I marvel at this. I have no idea where the inspiration for this angle came from. It would take me a week to come up with this joke. And here's another unexpected reference, this time in the Phone Log Spreadsheet post. This one might be a little easier to trace back to the words "area code". Still, the thought process here has to be something like area code to vast mental catalogue of songs and song lyrics to songs with area code or something that sounds like it to words and phrases in these songs that can be manipulated in one way or another to how to package this into a one-liner that doesn't waste all the mental gymnastics I just did in assembling the component parts. Incredible. And finally, Steve U used his most straightforward delivery for his easiest-to-follow punchline in this outstanding one-liner in the Eden Hazard post. Such a pro. Great job.

Sgt. Hammerclaw earned a huge ovation for this silly multimedia joke in the Phone Log Spreadsheet post. So, the whole idea of Manti Te'o passing off a handwritten document as an official Verizon phone record is funny enough, but the joke might be a bit dry if it isn't dressed up with little touches here and there. And the actual visual handwritten document is such fertile territory for adding one's own humor, anyway. I think this joke probably gets a handful of appreciative +1s even without the (wink wink) stuff and the scratched out lines and the exclamation points, but it's that stuff that takes it from being clever to something at which a person will genuinely laugh aloud.

Here's something silly and stupid and hilarious from RMJ=H in the Scarves post. That's a really goofy premise for a joke, and it could probably be delivered a few different ways, but I think ultimately it was important that RMJ=H kept it short. If he'd wanted to really go the Idiot route, he could have done the whole "Funny, I always thought the 'masque' . . . " thing, and that would have also worked. Still, the effect is similar: we're laughing at least a little bit at how completely ridiculous the suggestion is, and some of that laughter is pointed back at the author. When you make a joke like this, you do it knowing that people will be laughing at how stupid it is.

So, I guess I'm with the burners on this one, but I thought this long joke from burner VampireWeekendatBernies in the Manti Te'o Has Got Goodness post was pretty fucking funny. It's the collapsing-into-absurdity thing that shows up in a lot of funny long-ish jokes from time to time. I think there's sort of a subliminal trick to these, because, when you think about it, the collapsing-into-absurdity joke, when done well, follows almost exactly the standard narrative arc. I remember someone once suggested to me that the narrative arc is such an effective storytelling device because it follows the arc of . . . wait for it . . . an orgasm. Crazy, right? Whoa, we've just moved into our own bit of absurdity. Jesus. I have no idea where I was going with that. Oh, right, the idea that the narrative arc is something that we process subconsciously. Deep, man. Way deep. Ever notice how much easier it is to listen to a song written in 4/4 time than a song written in, say, 7/8? Takes a moment to get used to the awkward time, right? WE ARE INFECTED WITH STRANGE ALIEN PREFERENCES THAT WE DO NOT CONTROL.

There is no way this is not the Comment of the Day, from SavetoFavorites in the Super Bowl Tickets For HJ/BJ/etc. post. I fucking died when I read this. The balls section is maybe one of the two or three funniest things I have ever read. There's really nothing more to say about it.

This is pretty damn funny, from a burner called BreastonLargements in the Super Bowl Tickets For HJ/BJ/etc. post. Like the famous "banana wrapped in elbow skin" blurt from however long ago, this is just something someone says. And it is funny.

And finally, here's a clever one-liner from BronzeHammer in the Super Bowl Tickets For HJ/BJ/etc. post. It just sort of repurposes the content of the post into a different circumstance altogether, and both the new circumstance and the potential misunderstanding are really funny. And, for a cherry on top, it goes coarse at the end, using much more explicit language to deliver its punchline. There's no way that doesn't boost the humor of the joke. Good shit.

Total Fucking Duds

So, maybe the general wisdom these days is that I should cut it out with the duds. And I'm okay with that, I guess. I haven't decided one way or another, but for now I think it's probably safe to assume that most days there won't be duds. I don't want to remove the section altogether, and I doubt I ever will, but I have come to think that those of you who suggest that there are just too many horrible comments floating around each day to bother isolating a few are probably right. We'll see how it goes. For Wednesday, I skipped the duds. We'll see what happens with Thursday.

Keep doin' your damn thing. The comments have been great lately. You guys are the best.

Tuesday Roundup

Favorites and duds from today's commenting.

Favorites, in no particular order (moving quickly):

Here's a humdinger from Eddie Murray Sparkles in the Bishop O'Connell post. On most days, this is your Comment of the Day.

Here's a familiar angle from DougExeter in the Bishop O'Connell post. Subtle and effective. Also, here's a great Dick Cheney joke in the Celtic Manager post. Good stuff. And later, here's a kickass dig at the Lions in the Abandoned Silverdome post. This guy's great.

This is sharp and funny and beautifully delivered from Sponsored by V8 in the Terrible Lakers post. Great joke.

Here's a hysterical sequence from Gamboa Constrictor in the Ice Ice Baby post. I laughed aloud at this.

Here's a gruesome reference from Post ApocalypticRecSpecs in the Abandoned Silverdome post. Yeesh.

Here's a terrific crack from Bring Back Anthony Mason in the Phil Mickelson post. Excellent.

I enjoyed this wordplay caption joke from Madoffs Mets in the Phil Mickelson post. Very clever.

And finally, here's a rare post-DUAN Favorite, and it is today's Comment of the Day, from Theodore Donald Kerabatsos in the ESPN Wasted Tip post. That's wonderful.

Total Fucking Duds

This is pretty shocking. You're capable of so much more!

Thanks for reading. I'm desperately trying to catch up. Have a great night.

Monday Roundup

Favorites and duds from today's commenting.

Favorites, in no particular order:

I enjoyed this wordplay gag from StuartScottsEye in the Free Food post. The format of this joke - cleverly worded summary of the post's content, followed by a redirected punchline - has become so familiar that it almost functions as a knock knock joke. You could almost stop after the first part and have fun trying to get ahead of the punchline, to guess your way to the finish. Because most of the work that goes into this thing is in trying to reword and repurpose the content for the setup, and that's really where the humor exists in the joke. And because there are no other options, this is the Comment of the Day.

Total Fucking Duds

Yeah, like I'm going to spend time chasing down shitty jokes on a day when there was a single Favorite.

Look for a Tuesday Roundup sometime tonight.