Simpsons invent reality

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George Meyer Interview

A great interview with George Meyer, one of the writers for the Simpsons. He has been with the show from the beginning and is considered to be the one guy who shaped the show into what it is.

GM: I don’t remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it’s out there so that I can be fresh again. I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don’t work well together. When I’ve done my best work, I’ve been in a trance-like state. I write jokes that are more by-the-numbers, but they tend to have a flat, pedestrian quality compared to the dizzying flights of silliness that we occasionally achieve. That said, I’m pretty sure I wrote “Pray for Mojo.” Do you remember that line?

BLVR: Weren’t those the dying words of Homer’s helper monkey?

GM: Uh-huh. It’s almost like an epitaph for Western civilization.

LINK to interview.

Found via this Metafilter thread.

Look Around You - the Brain

Beany Babies

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

Weekly World News

This is by far my favorite headline of all time. I stumbled on this huge cache of WWN magazines in Google Books...insane.








LINK to all the craziness.

Japanese creepy/funny MRI

I'll say it again: We're years behind the Japanese when it comes to entertaining TV.

Emails from an Asshole.

This isn't trolling...it's an art form.

"I added $50 for you trying to haggle me. I'll remove this $50 haggling fee if you let me break an empty vodka bottle over your head."

LINK to Emails from an Asshole.

ways to be cool

click for large version

Modest business proposal

did he just say "jello puddin pop, flippity flop, call me back muthafucka I'll slap yo ass..."?

If you ingest the Higgs Boson...

...follow the steps outlined in this article.

In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson

All Aboard the Freedom Train

TO: NBC
RE: get off yer ass

Dear Sirs,

Upload the skit where Neil Diamond and Bigfoot shill for their new duet album "All Aboard the Freedom Train." You can do it NBC, you fuckers.

Warm Regards,
Dave

•••UPDATE!•••

Apparently the desire to see this clip reached a threshold and convinced some dude to rummage through his old VHS cassettes...here it is!

Big Foot & Neil Diamond - watch more funny videos

big ups to BigHutch!

From Ludacris to Suicidal

Bikini Calculus

If you need to prepare for a math test, may I suggest "Bikini Calculus".
Start crammin'.

I stumbled on this whilst perusing the
past slacker gift guides from The Morning News.

my answering machine message

The hardest working troll...

on the internets. Really...how can people think this is legit? Well, read the comments, because "she" reels them in consistently.

MST3K boys reminisce...

God, I miss that show. I distinctly remember every Thanksgiving, when Comedy Central would run a MST3K marathon. Here's a link to an interview with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Jim Mallon, who were the originators of MST3K.

It doesn't sound like they're going to start another series, but they have this project, Cinematic Titanic, where you can download and burn DVDs.

via

John Hodgman has a new book

Here's a quick interview with "Roger Numbers".

What I've been watching all week

Really, you can only take Tim and Eric in small doses. The show is so dumb and over the top that it gets me every time. It's like you're falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, and you have a fever dream that was shot with a tube camera. Oh, and then someone went apeshit with photoshop filters and clip art.

Link to loads of Tim and Eric clips.

Will Forte's "Lazy Horse" mattress commercial

More of the "Lazy Horse" nightmare sequence

Cinco "Facts" machine "Makin' it E-Z!" Why send faxes when you can receive FACTS!

The Onion has political blog

This is good. Some of their bloggers include "Gary Brunson, a 4-week old fetus" and "Dac Kien, a retired vietnamese torturer".

Link to blog.

Re: Cephalopod

Matthew Baldwin of Defective Yeti fame, writes for The Morning News.

Here's his most recent piece, a dystopian comedy of errors, with pleny of typos.

Link to Re: Cephalopod