The English fiction writer, Quentin Crisp, refused throughout his life to conceal either his homosexuality or his Atheism. Crisp was once talking to an audience in Northern Ireland and confessed to them that he was an atheist. A woman in the audience stood up and asked , “Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?”
How can anyone see this video and not want to visit/live in Japan? C’mon! That’s AWESOME.
From the comments:
This is definitely by the Kakafukaka circle at Waseda University. They’re a college comedy troupe which seems to enjoy reenacting anime/game/Japanese culture related stuff while wearing little more than underpants. I have no freaking idea as to why. Their site has videos like this involving Mario, Slam Dunk, and DBZ.
Side note: I appear to have fixed that embedding/stylesheet thing. Woo.
Giving a commencement address at Knox college. If Colbert was speaking at my undergrad graduation instead of Tom fuckin Brokaw, I might have actually gone.
And when you enter the workforce, you will find competition from those crossing our all-too-poorest borders. Now I know you’re all going to say, “Stephen, Stephen, immigrants built America.” Yes, but here’s the thing—it’s built now. I think it was finished in the mid-70s sometime. At this point it’s a touch-up and repair job. But thankfully Congress is acting and soon English will be the official language of America. Because if we surrender the national anthem to Spansih, the next thing you know, they’ll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught in our public schools.
So we must build walls. A wall obviously across the entire southern border. That’s the answer. That may not be enough—maybe a moat in front of it, or a fire-pit. Maybe a flaming moat, filled with fire-proof crocodiles. And we should probably wall off the northern border as well. Keep those Canadians with their socialized medicine and their skunky beer out. And because immigrants can swim, we’ll probably want to wall off the coasts as well. And while we’re at it, we need to put up a dome, in case they have catapults. And we’ll punch some holes in it so we can breathe. Breathe free. It’s time for illegal immigrants to go—right after they finish building those walls. Yes, yes, I agree with me.
Too much seriousness, so we get two humor entries today.
I present to you, William Shatner’s interpretation of Rocket Man. It’s a little too long, but the new character at 3:55 is worth it.
No commentary from me, just a link the website of Anonymous Lawyer’s Law Firm. For those that don’t know, AL captures life in a big law firm perfectly. My favorite parts on the site are the attorney bios.
He also seems to have outed himself. Oh well.
YouTube’s got the video of the Evolution of Dance. Good times. Almost as good as my 80s rap medley.
Since today is Satchmo’s last 24 hours on earth, I thought I’d celebrate him a little bit in the form of cat-inspired senryu’s.
You never feed me.
Perhaps I’ll sleep on your face.
That will sure show you.
You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail!
Behold, elevator butt.
You’re always typing.
Well, let’s see you ignore my
sitting on your hands.
Bush:Dunebuggy as Dukakis:Tank
President George W. Bush rides in a U.S. Border Patrol dune buggy during a tour of the Yuma sector near the U.S. Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona, Thursday, May 18, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper
Genius (n.) – the ability to recap your favorite movies told in 30 seconds… using bunnies
Bleary-Eyed Coworker Up All Night Generating More Work For You
Office personnel coordinator Clem Chesterton, who was hired by your superiors last year to track work flow, project progress, and employee efficiency in your department, spent a sleepless Sunday night completing his assigned task of making sure you are working as much as humanly possible. “We’re trying to make sure everyone does a pass-check on the spreadsheet package that comes across their desk in the aftrnons [sic],” Chesterton’s 2:44 a.m. e-mail to you read in part. “Keep in mins [sic] that these measures are being put in place to help us get more work done, despite the new mandatory meetings on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, outlined below.” Chesterton is currently considered the darling of upper management due to the bathroom-attendance-tracking chart he drafted at 4 a.m. Christmas Eve.
I doubt Bush shares my sentiments.
A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.
Earlier, the president had delivered his talk to the 2700 attendees, including celebrities and top officials, with the help of a Bush impersonator.
Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the president to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “They are re-arranging the deck chairs–on the Hindenburg.”
What, no hahahaha! fun-nee slideshows about looking for WMDs in the White House couch this year?
That Hindenberg line is genius.
The whole event is on C-SPAN, but C&L has just the Colbert part.
C-SPAN on Google video, whole thing.
It’s the Beach Boys meets Hogan’s Heroes. The bastard child of jibjab without all that crappy ontheonehandism. Now, with no furhter ado…
Bomb Iran? You’re rootin’ tootin’ right!
Cruise hates ‘his’ kid… almost as much as fishsticks Paltrow
Language experts are amazed Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have named their baby daughter Suri- because there is no record of the name meaning “Princess” in Hebrew. According to Hebrew linguists, Suri has only two meanings – one is a person from Syria and the other “go away” when addressed to a female. Hebrew expert JONATHAN WENT says, “I think it’s fair to say they have made a mistake here. There are variations of the way the Hebrew name for princess is spelt but I have never seen it this way.” Suri can also be translated into a Hindi boy’s name, and it also means “pointy nose” in some Indian dialects and “pickpocket” in Japanese.
Nice job dude. Naming ‘your’ daughter “go away, you pointy nosed pickpocket” is precisely the message I want to send when and if I breed.
I still say Holmes was wearing a prosthetic and the baby was adopted. It would have been awesome if the girl was not-white. That way, Tom could practice his denial doubly hard at the family cookouts.
If I were a fundie hack artist who couldn’t make a living at my chosen profession and who also had only moderate ability at same, I might dream up a scheme where I take a failed statue that was meant to glorify some portion of my dogma and then rechristen it with the name of some celebrity and the monetary backing of a group highly interested in that dogma.
You know, like the Spears “pro-life” Statue
That the statue is ridiculous, inelegant, and looks nothing like Spears, but hey, it’s a “dedication” to her refusal to use birth control and decision not to abort “pro-life” stance.
The next time I’m unemployed, I’m going to go to a Catholic church where they give out those Jesus trading cards for funerals. Then I’m going to go home, paste one to the back of a shampoo bottle and take a photo of the Jebus showing through on the other side. I’ll call it my “pro-life” shampoo. Then I’ll continue with my Jesusface grilled cheese sandwich plan. I’ll make millions!
Why is this humor Friday? Well, the “pro-life” statue is supposed to be at the moment of birth and the backside is showing a baby’s crown (suuuuure it’s Sean Preston). Only, I could never find a picture of the back side. Well, now I have. And it’s all yours, after the jump. Read more…
I apologize for my reduced blogging rate over the last two weeks. I’ve been involved in a local political brouhaha that has been consuming my blogging time. The time investment has been necessary since my wife’s career, and the future of the local school system hinge on the resolution of this problem. I think we are winning because some indictments came down this week. That makes me smile, but that’s not this morning’s contribution to Humor Friday.
While I was doing some online research this morning, I found this little graph that sort of sums up the irrational thinking of wingnuttia.
