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Poop Sign is the brainchild of artist Chris Yates: Link.

Bus with a systems error message:

Via The Daily WTF: Link.

These short Photoshop tutorials are funny and sad and vulgar and informative, all at the same time.

Try to pay attention as the desperate Donnie Hoyle explains Photoshop and why we suck at it:

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- Photoshop @ Wikipedia: Link.

Massassi Temple has an “It’s Not Lupus” thread with several amusing send-ups of House.

Above: Half-Life House, mashing up House with Gordon Freeman.
Link.

I recently discovered — and am getting a big kick out of — Reprographics by Chris Yates: short stories/essays in photocomic format.

Yates has a giddy enthusiasm for topics both silly and serious. In the former category, here’s an excerpt from Borrowing from the Future:

His serious side largely concerns art, notably sculpture. See, for example, The Power of Richard Serra:

Via Boing Boing.

“About to pass me by, Elvis stopped, looked at me and said in his beautiful Mississippi drawl: ‘Son, you have an ob-leek sense of humor.’”

Steve Martin writes about his early experiments in comedy:

What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. This type of laugh seemed stronger to me, as they would be laughing at something they chose, rather than being told exactly when to laugh.

To test my idea, I went onstage and began: “I’d like to open up with sort of a ‘funny comedy bit.’ This has really been a big one for me…it’s the one that put me where I am today. I’m sure most of you will recognize the title when I mention it; it’s the “Nose on Microphone” routine [pause for imagined applause]. And it’s always funny, no matter how many times you see it.”

I leaned in and placed my nose on the mike for a few long seconds. Then I stopped and took several bows, saying, “Thank you very much.” “That’s it?” they thought. Yes, that was it. The laugh came not then, but only after they realized I had already moved on to the next bit.

- Steve Martin, Smithsonian Magazine: Link.

Via Boing Boing.

This short animated cartoon by Dan Meth really cracks me up:

Link.

The life uninterrupted is not worth living …

Link to random strip.

Via Boing Boing.

Repurposed “Dangers of Alcoholism” comic from the 60s or 70s. Hilarious!

She: “Let me in there, I need to check my auctions! Just because I outbid you on that …”

He: “The way people like you sell things are ruining the server economy, all you do is farm!”

- Anonymous: link.

Via Boing Boing.

I Am an Op-Ed Columnist (And So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

Look at the moral guidance I offer. On faith: “After Jesus was born, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up.” On gender: “The sooner we accept the basic differences between men and women, the sooner we can stop arguing about it and start having sex.” On race: “While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.” On the elderly: “They look like lizards.”

Our nation is at a Fork in the Road. Some say we should go Left; some say go Right. I say, “Doesn’t this thing have a reverse gear?” Let’s back this country up to a time before there were forks in the road — or even roads. Or forks, for that matter. I want to return to a simpler America where we ate our meat off the end of a sharpened stick.

Let me regurgitate: I know why you want me to run, and I hear your clamor. I share Americans’ nostalgia for an era when you not only could tell a man by the cut of his jib, but the jib industry hadn’t yet fled to Guangdong. And I don’t intend to tease you for weeks the way Newt Gingrich did, saying that if his supporters raised $30 million, he would run for president. I would run for 15 million. Cash.

Nevertheless, I am not ready to announce yet — even though it’s clear that the voters are desperate for a white, male, middle-aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative.

- Stephen Colbert @ New York Times: Link.

Via Armchair Generalist: Link.

Found on the web, made me laugh:

“But, as I’ve said before, if I had to, I mean had to, it would be with Elvis, Mister Clean, or a firefighter.”

One thing we can all agree upon is that firefighters are hot. And I don’t mean hot like on fire literally, I mean hot like on fire figuratively. Look, I’m a red blooded American hetero SkinnySlim, and I have never participated in any homosexual activity. Unless of course you consider fantasizing about myself while staring at photos of myself in skimpy outfits to be homosexual. Personally, I just consider it irresistible. But, as I’ve said before, if I had to, I mean had to, it would be with Elvis, Mister Clean, or a firefighter. So who could blame the homosexual community of San Diego for cat calling firefighters as they drove their red truck along the Gay Pride Parade route?

- SkinnySlim

Made me laugh:

Via Laughing Squid.

It really happened, and you can believe me because I was there and here’s the proof –

Appallingly funny short animated film — a loving tribute, but mainly a brutal satire in the Peckinpah vein — not for young children or the faint of heart –

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

Via Boing Boing:

Adam sez, “Thought you might like to know that the “Ultra-violent Charlie Brown student film” … was made by Jim Reardon, a Simpsons director who’s currently working on a Pixar project. Another Simpsons director, Rich Moore (who was also a supervising director of Futurama), is mentioned in the credits as one of the voices for Charlie Brown.”

[Boing Boing: Link]

See also Charlie Brown.