January 20 2012

SaveToFavorites - This is a great use of recontextualization - Kobe is a frustrated, homicidal Walter Mitty.
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Theodore Donald Kerabatsos It's all about the ludicrous presuppostions in this joke. Inventing facts specifically for the purpose of making a setup fit into a box provided  by a headline or existing text can be a losing proposition, if the "facts" are mundane or trite. This joke takes as fact that there is an island of castrationmonsters, and that there was a resident race of shouty neanderthals. Introducing us to their inevitable, tragic encounter is beautiful in a way that "all the rapsyvoiceans got slaughtered gruesomely, the end" isn't.
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SameSadEcho SSE keeps it simple, charming, and plays the concerned mother angle beautifully.
Not 1, not 2, not 3... I really like this. This is an example of making a great connection and twisting one of the standard elements of the DHF format to efficiently point to the punchline. He could have just posted a Willy Wonka video clip, and left it at that, and that would have been a goddamn shame.
The Amazing Sneijderman

Lame:
Maybe I'm just a dick, but the comments in this post reminded me of a bunch of frogs leaping over each other on a moving treadmill, expending a lot of energy, but getting nowhere.
Can-I-Borrow-A-Feeling - This wasn't terrible, it's just that this dude drops this style of joke with disappointing regularity, and without the sizzle of a better commenter. Jokes that played off of referencing tragic events went from shocking and fresh, to standard fare, to too-familiar territory. At this point, merely referencing, say, Mike Tyson's daughter's death is just a yawn, and a cheesy one at that. When he's in this groove, CIBAF is little more than a clearance-rack Hatey McLife or Clinton Portishead.
catfish_tx - It honestly would be funnier if he just typed "Michael J Fox" and submitted it. It would still suck as a joke, but the mere existence of it floating out there would be funny. It would be comically bad, not merely tedious.
BigIrishPotato Is this a gimmick account that exists to be cosmically bad? To suck to the depths of suckitude?
gtraindelay  Brilliant. That stupid joke hasn't been made 2 billion times before.
What the fuck is this? A dumb joke, a dumber reply in pink and this BudBowlMVP dope getting involved where he doesn't need to be. How the hell does that loaf have a star?
Should I even bother to point out video clip comments? Is it not blatantly obvious what is crappy about that? Is it still unclear that the Deadspin comment section is a place to showcase your originality and creativity? That they are not a memory contest, or a place to ask "hey remember that time that [x] happened? I do!" or a place to show off something that you found funny?
 I'd love to see a transcript of this conversation between a commenter and the ninja:
"But that's not fair, I'm not good at thinking up my own funny stuff, and I want to participate in MY special little way."
"That's too fucking bad that you're not good at thinking up your own funny stuff. Now, snap your own neck!"

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