Gaggle Funny Watch: Still Waiting

7:08 pm EST August 16th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 11 Comments

I’m still waiting for Gaggle, Media Research Center’s comic strip on its blog to be funny. At this point, I’d settle for a chuckle. C’mon, you guys are supposed to be the party of South Park – where’s the funny?

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11 Responses to “Gaggle Funny Watch: Still Waiting”

  1. Joshua Gaines says:
    August 16, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    That strip just makes me sad and achy. That’s probably not what they were after.

  2. nickname says:
    August 16, 2005 at 10:08 pm

    dorky so far…

  3. johnnyprogressive says:
    August 17, 2005 at 4:08 am

    What makes this comic so not funny is the fact that it tries to be satire, yet the satire relies on a false premise that exists only because it is perpetuated by conservatives- that the media is overwhelmingly treehugging liberal. We have these rabid press corps members (ha!) and a lucid, suave press secretary. In reality we have a lapdog gaggle and a press secretary that stammers through his finely tuned talking points. And this is the administration of media manipulation- we have seen Jeff Gannon, Armstrong Williams, and those fake Medicare newscasts brought up in the past few years. So they have that not going for them. Oh yeah, and other than that, the “jokes” are absolutely atrocious. I tested whether or not is was my own bias that prevented me from seeing the humor by reversing ideological roles of the characters but still- not funny. Hey lets see if i can write a strip.

    Larry, the Press Secretary: Yes, you, the new guy.

    Reporter: Hi, Im Hippie McLiberal from the Daily Worker- why arent these press releases printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper?

    Larry; (rolling eyes) Oh brother.

    There you have it. One edition of Gaggle. It took me about 2 minutes to write.

  4. dugger1 says:
    August 17, 2005 at 8:08 am

    jp,

    Would it be possible for a comic strip which believed (as I most assuredly do) and promulgated the assumption that the press is biased to the left to be funny – in your eyes or anyone of the left’s eyes? I have laughed at Boondocks (in spite of the sometimes vitriol) but have never thought Gary Trudeau is in any way funny. Maybe I would if he agreed w/me. The point would be “who expects any one on the left to think a pointed conservative ideological comic is funny” – almost by definiton.

    Dugger

  5. neoconsrloopy says:
    August 17, 2005 at 11:08 am

    “That’s gold, Johnny, Gold!”
    In my best Kenny Banya voice. We should have a “Gaggle” comic strip writing contest on the blog.

  6. zencomix says:
    August 17, 2005 at 3:08 pm

    Maybe the reference to “Head Correspondent” is some obscure Clintonian Blowjob joke.

  7. johnnyprogressive says:
    August 17, 2005 at 3:08 pm

    If the comic was actually successful in execution, like say for instance, had punchlines, I would be able to suspend disbelief and find it funny. Do you find Gaggle funny? And if so, which strips really tickle your funnybone?

  8. dugger1 says:
    August 17, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    jp

    “Do you find Gaggle funny?”

    Don’t laugh; have never read it. I like Brewster Rockit Space Guy, Get Fuzzy (liberal slant IMO), Pearls Before Swine.

    Dugger

  9. nickname says:
    August 17, 2005 at 10:08 pm

    Oliver,

    I think you should have someone make a gaggle funny watch jpg..and mark each day that goes by, your brit hume thing was kind of dumb but i think this could be funny, and i’m on the right!!

    im a farside guy…

  10. johnnyprogressive says:
    August 18, 2005 at 4:08 am

    The Far Side was excellent. As was Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately both are gone.

  11. Oliver Willis » Gaggle:  This Is No Laughing Matter says:
    August 24, 2005 at 10:08 am

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