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Posts Tagged ‘comedy’
Laugh at This, It’s Funny
Amanda Moshier | April 13th, 2009
Greetings, and happy Monday! Spring is in full-swing and for Southern California residents it almost feels like summer. The birds are chirping, drinkers are binging, lovers are loving, and here at Wpromote, business is booming. That being said, today I’d like to take a break from all the serious reporting on important topics like Google’s ongoing legal battles with the news media, YouTube’s move to create a Hulu for music, and the upcoming reveal of Facebook’s new ToS. Instead, I’d like to share with you 3 sites I visit from time to time when I need a good laugh, comedic inspiration, or simply want to put things in proper perspective. Here we go. 1 – Overheard In New York Not for the easily offended, Overheard in New York takes jabs at everyone from co-eds @ Columbia with a serious lack of perspective to Downtown girls who wear little in the way of clothing. With off-color quips from tired moms, snooty professors, and bawdy hipsters, Overheard In New York takes eavesdropping to an art form. 2 – Best Tweets Not everyone on Twitter is a comic genius. Some use the microblogging service to chat with family and friends and others use it to market their business and connect with customers. Still, there are a chosen few who have mastered comic tweeting, consistently hitting the Twitterverse with choice turns of phrases that are both hysterical and thought-provoking. Discover these nuggets of wisdom at Best Tweets, and be prepared to laugh out loud. Continue reading…
Viral Violence
Amir Shoucri | September 19th, 2008
“…the comic mask is ugly and distorted, but does not imply pain.” –Aristotle Most of us who work on computers will watch at least one funny or outrageous video a day. Sometimes more like 10 or 20. They usually come out of nowhere, dropped in the form of an IM or e-mail link — a little gift of levity or extreme violence to help you through the day. Perhaps a flaming-shot-gone-wrong video like this one. It makes you feel like a champ watching bad things happen to someone else. It lets you ignore the bad things that are happening to you. In a way, comedic and violent videos (the line is fine) are similar to the puns and pratfalls of vaudeville days. You used to go pay to see a man fall on his ass on a stage. Now, you can watch a baby kicked for the same effect. Or a remix of a baby being kicked. The key difference, you might say, is this one really happened (if it wasn’t faked) whereas physical comedy in vaudeville or a film is staged. There’s a quote from a magician character in the Christopher Nolan movie The Prestige: “If people actually believed the things I did on stage, they wouldn’t clap, they’d scream. Think of sawing a woman in half.” The implication is we should be upset about a baby being kicked, not laughing. That is, if it were real. Without getting too intellectual about it, I think it’s probably because the Continue reading…
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