In my experience everyone loves a good joke. The dirtier the joke, the raunchier the punchline the better the laugh. Hell a whole movie was made about the "Aristocrats" which is a dirty joke that gets dirtier with each and every retelling.
The dirtier and raunchier it is, the better the laugh afterwards.
Everyone loves a good dirty joke, whether it be dead babies, half dogs, cuckolded husbands, cheating wives, assholes getting theirs or naieve ones getting something a bit more than they deserved.
This idea of everyone loving a dirty Joke brings me to Nicholas Gurewitch. The famed artist and animator who brings Perry Bible Fellowship to the internet and the world. Here in Baltimore City it's printed in the City Paper. It's a truly hilarious comic ( in my opinion ) and anyone who has a slightly deviant sense of humor or even enjoys a misdirection will love this comic and I totally recommend that you check it out. He is a veritable king of forced second glances, there are several strips I've had to look at two or three times to get the subtle and yet still hilarious gem he's hidden within.
Today when I opened up the city paper to read the letters to the editor I was totally amused by something I saw, that went as follows:
"Schulz He Ain't
Thanks, City Paper, for having "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow. I think the cartoon strip is terrific.
On the other hand, I think The Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch sucks. Anyone who thinks that Paw feeding his dog while his child is burning to death in a barn (Oct. 17th) is funny has to be a sick asshole. This is not the first time this cartoon has depicted shit showing children being killed. A while back there was a Robin Hood Cartoon with the same demented theme.
Some guy writing Dan Savage about jerking off while watching guppies fuck is funny. The Pain - When Will It End? Is adult humor. Yuk Yuk!
But killing kids is not funny, Gurewitch, lay off!!
GERALD BEN SHARGEL
baltimore"
For those of you who do ot know anything of any of the names above, that's why I linked them. Tom Tomorrow's comic is a very politically oriented comic. It'salso very liberal. Savage Love is a sex advice colomounist, he's very famous and has a hilarious podcast I listen to as well. The Pain When Will it end is also a very popular comic.
Here's my problem tho. The kind of stuff that Dan Savage ends up answering are much much more bizarre than someone killing a kid in a comic strip. So why is it that when someone whacks off to guppies fucking or is in trouble becuase he slept with his bosses wife but doesn;t regret it because his sex life is so starved. How is that FUNNY, and a non graphic depcition of kids possibly getting killed isn't?
I'm sorry Gerald, ( which seems like a very old man name anyway) you lay off. If it wasn;t funny. Then it wouldn't have been published. You're just some uptight stuck up old guy living in Baltimore wanting to push his po'ed ideas on everyone else.
If you didn't find it funny no need to write a nasty letter to the city paper. You are more than entitled to your opinion, but no one else wanted to read it.
Dirty jokes are an outlet for things we wish would happen, and want to imagine. Besides kids are loud whiny smelly annoying and not mine. If a few of them are depicted being killed whats the big deal? Are you also deeply offended by the portrayl of pedophiles on Law and Order?
Anyway. It's almost midnight and I was acosted by some truly ignorant hoodies tonight. That however is a story for another time about prolonging steretypes.
I owe you all a link to dramatica this one is a sell out.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
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