Hitting too close to home?

An article about being "quite eccentric within accepted social norms."

You know where I really shine? Filling out the memo part of a check. Like, I might be paying my gas bill, but in the memo I'll write "Meatballs." I wish I could see the expression on the face of whoever opens up that bill! Of course, I always add an asterisk and an attached note to make sure they know I'm just kidding and don't return the check uncashed. I may be tastefully madcap, but I also have a credit rating to think of.

I couldn't help myself

This just made me laugh very hard...

I just want to be liked

And to get paid.

I've been saying this for years!

How does Radio Shack stay in business?

Spot On

This wonderful article reminds me of a comment I once wrote about Everybody Loves Raymond: "Relax, I just wanted to tell you that I love that one where Raymond does something marginally wrong like going to play golf with his friends and his wife gets angry at him and his mother interferes somehow."

The nuts:

In the revised episode, taped late last week and scheduled to air in May, Remini's character Carrie Heffernan, the sharp-tongued but beautiful wife of portly Queens delivery man Doug Heffernan, will reveal to her husband she was pregnant and had an abortion without his knowledge. Carrie's revelation comprises the secondary, or "B," story of the episode, in which Doug eats a meatball sandwich against his wife's wishes...

"Leah did some brilliant acting," said Krespie, who called Remini's portrayal of a woman who had recently had an abortion "spot-on." "Our show does a lot of quiet, observational humor, and I think anyone who's had an abortion would be hard-pressed not to relate to, and get a chuckle out of, Carrie's situation."

Update (3/7/07): For some reason, I cannot find this article anywhere on the Onion web site! Was it taken down or is it just missing? The link above goes to another article. Can someone look into this for me?

Update (3/13/07): Thanks to Anonymous' comment, I now see that they put the article back up, but with generic names. Incredible! CBS/The King of Queens must have gotten really pissed off about it and forced the Onion to take it down. Luckily, anyone who reads this blog knows the real story.

You Gotta Work Blue

Or else you might get relegated to the dustbin of comedy. Just ask Aristophanes:

It's not that my material isn't strong. Come on! You don't win competitions at both the City Dionysia and the Lenea if you don't know how to work a room. Yet people only seem to like that Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey baloney. Lowest-common-denominator nonsense. You think anyone's going to remember Larry The Cable Guy in 2500 years?

African Rebels

No, not real ones. The Onion made a funny.