Comments on: Gaggle Funny Watch: Still Waiting http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:43:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Oliver Willis » Gaggle:  This Is No Laughing Matter http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3990 Oliver Willis » Gaggle:  This Is No Laughing Matter Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:08:58 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3990 [...] snotty, but not enough to be interesting. Sorry. Sorry, indeed. Previously: Three Weeks Gaggle Funny Watch: Still Waiting Where s The Make It Funny Button? [...] [...] snotty, but not enough to be interesting. Sorry. Sorry, indeed. Previously: Three Weeks Gaggle Funny Watch: Still Waiting Where s The Make It Funny Button? [...]

]]> By: johnnyprogressive http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3989 johnnyprogressive Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:08:25 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3989 The Far Side was excellent. As was Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately both are gone. The Far Side was excellent. As was Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately both are gone.

]]> By: nickname http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3988 nickname Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:08:07 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3988 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... 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…

]]> By: dugger1 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3987 dugger1 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:08:04 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3987 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 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

]]> By: johnnyprogressive http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3986 johnnyprogressive Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:08:45 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3986 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? 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?

]]> By: zencomix http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3985 zencomix Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:08:06 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3985 Maybe the reference to "Head Correspondent" is some obscure Clintonian Blowjob joke. Maybe the reference to “Head Correspondent” is some obscure Clintonian Blowjob joke.

]]> By: neoconsrloopy http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3984 neoconsrloopy Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:08:01 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3984 "That's gold, Johnny, Gold!" In my best Kenny Banya voice. We should have a "Gaggle" comic strip writing contest on the blog. “That’s gold, Johnny, Gold!”
In my best Kenny Banya voice. We should have a “Gaggle” comic strip writing contest on the blog.

]]> By: dugger1 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3983 dugger1 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:08:50 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3983 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 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

]]> By: johnnyprogressive http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3982 johnnyprogressive Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:08:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3982 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. <blockquote> 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. </blockquote> There you have it. One edition of Gaggle. It took me about 2 minutes to write. 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.

]]> By: nickname http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3981 nickname Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:08:05 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3981 dorky so far... dorky so far…

]]> By: Joshua Gaines http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/08/16/gaggle-funny-watch-still-waiting/#comment-3980 Joshua Gaines Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:08:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=286#comment-3980 That strip just makes me sad and achy. That's probably not what they were after. That strip just makes me sad and achy. That’s probably not what they were after.

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