I'm trying to find an old radio short called "White Trash Airlines" that I heard online in the early 90's. It was a parody of a United commercial and had the "Fly the friendly skies" tagline in it but I don't know where it came from or who made it. It was, however, very funny if you like hillbilly jokes. YMMV.
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posted by ninazer0
on Nov 1, 2012 -
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What are some witty comebacks I can use when being accused of having a midlife crisis?
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posted by Beti
on Oct 29, 2012 -
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CricketFilter...or IndianHumorFilter: Help with decoding some Indian humor on a satire website, namely with acronyms?
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posted by Fortran
on Oct 1, 2012 -
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Several years ago I saw a webcomic about distinguishing between those who falsely claimed to be unpopular in high school from those who actually were. There was a young female narrator / investigator, maybe identified as the author of the comic but maybe not, who talked about interrogating friends and acquaintances to see how unpopular they really were. I think the last panel showed her writing in a note pad.
Anybody remember this? Google is getting me nowhere. I may have stumbled across it by following a link from here, but more likely from a comment than a post.
posted by BigSky
on Jul 7, 2012 -
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I'm trying to remember a web-video series that was mentioned on the blue a couple of times in the last year or two. All I can remember is that they were hosted by a woman (maybe light brown/blond hair...?) who was giving a funny/feminist take on various things in pop culture. Does that ring a bell with anyone? I think maybe one of the topics she talked about was yogurt commercials aimed at women. I know, not much to go on!
posted by trillian
on Feb 20, 2012 -
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It's my grandmother's birthday next week, and I'd like to give her some sort of book with cute and funny short stories/jokes, a la
Reader's Digest. It should also be clean humor
only. Any suggestions?
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posted by iamfantastikate
on Sep 21, 2011 -
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I've been really stressed lately, but a few things can make me belly laugh until I forget what I was worried about. Sadly, there are only so many Margaret Cho videos and I think I've already exhausted "Whose Line is it Anyway?" I also find Dan Savage's podcast funny and utterly distracting. What else could I listen to or watch that will make me howl with laughter?
posted by bunderful
on Sep 13, 2011 -
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Who is the Amazon reviewer who posted a corpus of very funny, very weird reviews? As the reviews accumulated, he would reveal occasional bits of his "real" life. This would have been in the mid-2000s, I think. My Google skills are letting me down sorely.
posted by everichon
on Aug 29, 2011 -
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I'm looking for a kids joke that some how involves Wonder Woman's body, possibly as the punch line. All that is remembered is the following: "Knock Knock? Who's there? Wonder Woman's Body!" and laughter ensues. It was told by my sister-in-law in the 1980s when she was a wee one, so it might just be little kid humor, but I'm hoping there might be more to this joke.
posted by filthy light thief
on Jul 13, 2011 -
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I think I have seen a set of funny mashup videos where the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme was added to movie clips that were originally, you know, not that funny. My goo-fu fails, help me find them!
posted by mr.marx
on Jun 24, 2011 -
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SCTV-filter: In which sketch did Richard Harris (Dave Thomas), after being asked to keep speaking in his loud voice rather than lapse into his insufficiently audible quiet voice [both demonstrated
here], say, loudly, "I'll try! But I don't know if I can sustain it!"
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posted by Trurl
on Jun 9, 2011 -
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Help me come up with a five-part joke, riddle, or comic strip to embed in 5 separate data presentations at a science conference.
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posted by dino might
on Apr 1, 2011 -
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So, anyone seen the new State Farm commercials? The recent series stars a mid-30 something guy either walking into a coffee shop, browsing a news stand, waiting by the curb in a city where a server brings him his....coffee.....and some other ones...
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posted by TeachTheDead
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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I'm trying to remember the name/address of a funny website I used to visit perhaps 8-10 years ago or so. It was a humor site from out of England I think, presented in kind of a newspaper 'broadsheet' format, and had a distinctly anachronistic writing style, which I remembering being kind of Edwardian/P.G. Wodehouse-ish.
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posted by pziemba
on Oct 28, 2010 -
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Trying to track down a comment thread that made the rounds three years ago where a bunch of parents posted stories where their young children embarrassed the daylights out of them.
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posted by ambulance blues
on Aug 10, 2010 -
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Please complete this joke:
A guy goes a psychiatrist. He doesn't say anything during the entire hour. He comes back a week later. Neither one of them says anything. He comes back a third time. Silence right up to the end. Finally, he says . . . something. The psychiatrist responds. And that brings us to the punchline. Which is hilarious. . . I'm sure.
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posted by stuart_s
on Jun 27, 2010 -
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Where did I hear a humorous story of someone playing a song over and over and over on a jukebox?
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posted by artlung
on Jun 11, 2010 -
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Have there been any good, scholarly studies on the "Chuck Norris" style of one-liner joke/folklore? How old is this style of joke?
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posted by samthemander
on May 9, 2010 -
12 answers
Is there a word or a term that describes the type of comic/cartoon in which a picture and caption are both necessary in order for the joke to work?
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posted by obliquicity
on Jan 15, 2010 -
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Please help me remember these office humor videos where God was the boss who carried a staff and ducked responsibility..
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posted by hypersloth
on Jun 19, 2009 -
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Name My Blog! After years of creating things and then casually tossing them aside, I've decided to create a blog to put them all in. Cartoons, short fiction, audio clips, short video, etc. A bit like
Lore's Bad Gods. The only problem is, I've got no idea what to call it.
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posted by The Whelk
on Jun 19, 2009 -
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I'm looking for recommendations for some books for my dad, who likes Tony Hillerman, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and John LeCarre.
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posted by creepygirl
on Jun 13, 2009 -
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What are the cleverest, wittiest picture books you know? I'm looking for something you might recommend to a very smart kid who is still young enough to prefer picture books to chapter books. Another way of putting is, I'm looking for the picture book equivalent of McSweeney's.
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posted by yankeefog
on Apr 21, 2009 -
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My firm has just announced one-week furloughs for most employees. What struck me as odd was that the email included an attachment labelled "Activities". When I opened it, it was a list: "Top 20 Things to do While on Furlough". Examples:
* Clean out your garage and other storage places and hold a garage sale.
* Go hiking with your pet.
* Renew your library card.
It's like management is just
begging to be parodized. Alas, I have not the comedy chops to do it well. Anyone want to suggest some good parody "activities" I could pursue whilst on furlough?
posted by zainsubani
on Mar 27, 2009 -
46 answers
I'm waaaay too serious (please excuse the irony in my even asking this question): What makes for good humor and how can I learn to get better at using it to improve my relationships with other people?
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posted by SocialArgonaut
on Mar 4, 2009 -
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About ten days ago I was listening to NPR in my car (KPCC in Pasadena, to be specific) and heard a hysterical piece on Great Britain's success at the Olympics. Help me find it!
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posted by kepano
on Aug 28, 2008 -
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Back in the late 90s, I think in the winter of 1997-8, I saw a stand-up comedian on Conan O'Brien that blew me away but I've never been able to track him down since. I think his name was David Jerusalem. He made jokes about the Olympics and having been a heroin addict. He didn't perform in front of a mic but was interviewed by Conan. I've been trying to find information about this guy for years without success, does my description ring any bells for you?
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posted by Kattullus
on Jul 15, 2008 -
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Is there a name for this style of joking? Set-up: Person A asks a question. Punchline: Person B -- by pretending to misunderstand the question -- gives an unexpected response. The Marx Bros used this style a lot, and I see it over and over on "Flight of the Conchords. " ALSO: Can anyone offer further examples of this? Thank you so much! :-)
posted by coizero
on Apr 19, 2008 -
15 answers
I love esoteric jokes, the kind of humor which presupposes a lot of specialized knowledge. The more opaque the joke is, the better. However, by their very nature they're kinda hard to search for on Google, or at least I rarely hit upon the magic searchterms. So, do you know good sites with specialist jokes? If not, do you know any particularly obscure jokes?
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posted by Kattullus
on Sep 23, 2007 -
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