The new English waitress at the local pub says people keep mistaking her for an Australian. That’s a stupid mistake, my friend said, although he personally gets tripped up trying to distinguish Australians from New Zealanders (the difference is in how they pronounce the word “fish”, he said. So “fish” is the shibboleth then, I [...]

A while ago, there was this post at Bad News Hughes where he posted a photo of a seemingly coked-up Ninja Turtle that he couldn’t stop laughing at. Then I couldn’t stop laughing at it either. Sometimes a picture will, for no real reason, just make you laugh until you think you’re going to puke. [...]

And to close out Picking on Hack Comedians Week, here’s a story from a few years ago that touches on not only Robin Williams, who has a terrible movie out now, but also Rod Stewart, who has a terrible album out now.
8:30 p.m.
ME [entering living room]: What’s this on T– are you watching Patch Adams?!
TOULA, [...]

(Sometimes I wish The Trailer Trash were still around.)
Sean Penn and Robin Williams used to simply have in common that each was utterly devoid of humour in his own way. But recently, both have suddenly made themselves a target for assassination not by holding or running for political office, but by simply making a dreadful-looking [...]

The secret to a good deadpan? For me, maintaining a completely straight face is as easy as pretending I’m reading Dane Cook’s Wikiquote page. There’s simply no chance of cracking a smile.
I caught the rerun of Dane Cook’s second stint hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, and I was about as underwhelmed as I was [...]