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Metapost: Comedy + COTW 4 U
Premium post · February 25, 2022
Hello everyone! Do not forget, the Internet Read Aloud, America’s favorite live comedy show about the Internet, is COMING BACK, in just a week! There’s still...
Distressing Friday
Premium post · February 25, 2022
Family Circus, 2/25/22 I was going to do a joke about Dolly undermining her parents’ Flat Earth beliefs in front of PJ, but then I got a look at the utter,...
Soapy Thursday
Premium post · February 24, 2022
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/24/22 Ahhh, today in Rene Belluso catchphrases you can use to liven up work meetings, we have “Nonsense! Lies! All lies!!!,” which I...
Sincerely hope everyone else who got an invite got there, muttered "the hell is this?", then left
Premium post · February 23, 2022
Dick Tracy, 2/23/22 Kind of weird that Dick Tracy, the man who had a portable voice communications device decades before the rest of us had cell phones,...
Lillian will not be involved (too boring)
Premium post · February 22, 2022
Crankshaft, 2/22/22 God, I certainly hope this is the setup for an Agatha Christie-style locked room murder mystery, where all of our beloved Crankshaft...
Theft, wage and otherwise
Premium post · February 21, 2022
Blondie, 2/21/22 You all hopefully know my strong feeling on putting a hat on a hat, which is to say combining two jokes together in a way that each of them...
Rene's "lawyer" answered a Craigslist ad that said "Do you own a tie and a briefcase?"
Premium post · February 20, 2022
Panels from Slylock Fox, 2/20/22 Today’s Six Differences offer an even more disturbing and nightmarish world than usual. The vision of a giant bottle...
Actually good comics
Premium post · February 19, 2022
Crock, 2/19/22 Giant zipper running down the middle of the desert, revealing the Crock-world to be a baffling simulacrum that defies all attempts to make...
Metapost: TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO LIVE COMEDY (for real this time?????) PLUS COTW
Premium post · February 18, 2022
FOLKS!!! With the receding of Omicron, our beloved janky LA theater the Clubhouse is reopening for real and the Internet Read Aloud is COMING BACK, in just...
More age business
Premium post · February 18, 2022
Mary Worth, 2/18/22 Look, I'm not going trying to draw any particular conclusions here, but it is really true that a surprising number of Mary Worth plots...
Youth and age
Premium post · February 17, 2022
Zits, 2/17/22 Do we, in fact, live in a fallen world of filth and degradation, where our young people are engaging in all sorts of nightmarish sex stuff that...
Unpleasant Wednesday
Premium post · February 16, 2022
Curtis, 2/16/22 OK, look, I don't pretend to know everything about how other people live their lives, but I refuse to believe there's a human who comes home...
"You like watching Lisa die! You really like it!"
Premium post · February 15, 2022
Funky Winkerbean, 2/15/22 Look, I have very little credentials to speak as a "Hollywood insider" of any sort, but I feel very confident in saying that box...
Some soaps, some romance
Premium post · February 14, 2022
Mary Worth, 2/14/22 Toby story confirmed! Toby story about her working as a community college art teacher confirmed! I am very excited about the delights in...
Intersectional Sunday
Premium post · February 13, 2022
Crock, 2/13/22 "Trooper Megan" was added to the case of Crock years ago in an attempt to mollify the woke mob who threatened to cancel this widely beloved...
Somewhat murderous Saturday
Premium post · February 12, 2022
Dennis the Menace, 2/12/22 This is in reality an extremely egregious example of working backwards from a punchline to a joke, without putting much effort in...
Soapy Friday
Premium post · February 11, 2022
Gosh, it seems like the Morgans are about to lose all their savings in a lawsuit, but at least they'll have their lucrative careers as medical professionals...
If I were GOOD AT MATH, I probably wouldn't have a DRINKING PROBLEM, now would I
Premium post · February 10, 2022
Blondie, 2/10/22 One thing that Blondie absolutely loves doing is to mine broadly appealing cultural events like “the Big Game” for laughs in the most...
Downer Wednesday
Premium post · February 9, 2022
Mary Worth, 2/9/22 "Yes, it seemed that all hope was lost as I plunged into the cruel sea. But I lifted up a prayer to the Lord above to spare my life....
Drama (bird, human, etc.)
Premium post · February 8, 2022
Mother Goose and Grimm, 2/8/22 Do you think the various bird-women with glasses that Mother Goose talks to in Mother Goose and Grimm are all supposed to be...
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