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A notice in English from a Japanese hotel. (My usual disclaimer on this sort of thing: I’m not making fun of whoever produced this notice. Using a foreign language is not easy and full of pitfalls, and if I tried … Continue reading
Category Archives: Funny comedy humor
Political commentators Jackie Broyles and Dunlap (in real life Travis Harmon and Jonathan Shockley) review this past Thursday’s two GOP debates in Cleveland, or as Dunlap puts it, the losers’ debate and the winners’ debate (total running time 6 minutes, … Continue reading
Even the dog seems baffled by this guy’s wife’s ability to anticipate his every thought: Link: https://youtu.be/0oKk8ygH3Iw by … Continue reading
A parent trying to encourage a baby to say “Mama” by offering a treat, and the family dog wants in on the action: Link: https://youtu.be/I_zW6APE1qQ Update: This video was made private for a while, possibly in an effort to discourage … Continue reading
What if Doctor Who were a Japanese production? It might look something like this: Link: https://youtu.be/eak26ohx1Y8 Bonus: Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, and Tituss Burgess lip sync to Beyoncé on a flight. Why are may airline trips never this cool? Link: … Continue reading
Comedy Central’s Key and Peele (whose program is in its final season, to the regret of many) show what life might be like if there were a little more justice in the world and the best teachers were valued as … Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen this it’s reasonably amusing. Nick Offerman (best known for playing real man Ron Swanson on the sitcom Parks & Recreation) here portrays an opponent of efforts to get kids to eat better, contending that pizza, … Continue reading
(Update: Unfortunately, the hitchhiking robot has been irreparably damaged by vandals in Philadelphia. More in this later post.) In an interesting social experiment (described in an Associated Press report by Collin Binkley), a couple of Canadian researchers have launched a … Continue reading
Here’s yesterday’s xkcd web comic published in honor of the New Horizon probe’s Bastille Day fly-by of the (dwarf) planet: See the wiki explainxkcd.com for more information, including jokes you might otherwise miss (or at least I did). by … Continue reading
As I keep saying, John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, is a national treasure. Last Sunday he and the show’s staff did yet another excellent exposé, this one on the stupidity of giving vast amounts of unneeded welfare … Continue reading