Bad Wisdom’s Artful Offensiveness
Bad Wisdom is a brilliantly savagely offensive, gleeful parody of the rock ’n’ roll messiah complex, the seeker-narrative, and the entire tradition of male spiritual self-aggrandisement.
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A Questionable Quartet: Tom Lucas, Research Randy, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edward Stratemeyer
Tom Lucas’ parody Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-Eaten Pie of Despair fuses elements of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos into an Edward Stratemeyer world.
Political Cartoonist Art Young Was an Aficionado of all Things Infernal
Fantagraphics' new edition of Inferno takes Art Young's original Depression-era critique to the Trump White House -- and then drags it all to Hell.
‘Sports Is Hell’ Narrows the Field to Identity Politics
Ben Passmore's Sports Is Hell is an apocalyptic parody of racism in US sports and politics.
Overlooking the Overstatement in “The Lottery” and ‘Bojack Horseman’
Readers of Shirley Jackson’s 1948 satire, “The Lottery”, just didn’t get it; over 70 years later, viewers of Bojack Horseman‘s “Thoughts and Prayers” episode just aren’t getting it, either.
Epistemological Anxieties and Irony in ‘Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else’
C.D. Rose’s Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else is as striking for its achievements as it is for its failures, but ultimately the whole exercise is inessential.
Norman Lear’s ‘Cold Turkey’ Satirizes Nixon, Narrowmindedness, and Tobacco Addiction
The humor in Norman Lear’s Cold Turkey goes hand-in-paw with the blunt, vulgar symbolism of a dog’s lifted leg in the opening credits.
Mix ‘The Daily Mash’ with ‘The Daily Show’ and You’ve Got ‘The Mash Report’
BBC Two's The Mash Report is funny, and we really need funny these days.
Dr. Demento Covered in Punk on New Compilation
This is various famous and not so famous artists doing punk-style covers of a century's worth of novelty songs. After reading that sentence you should already know whether or not this compilation is for you.
Haven’t You Learned How to Take a Joke? The Comedy-on-Campus Debates
The college comedy deficit means that we are neither taught how to take a joke nor how to interpret one.
Inane Political Discourse, or, Alan Partridge’s Parody Politics
That the political class now finds itself relegated to accidental Alan Partridge territory along the with rest of the twits and twats that comprise English popular culture is meaningful, to say the least.
Algorithmic Versus Parodic Mobile App Art
Digital art has been around for almost as long as computers have been. Internet art has existed since the '90s. But due to the mobile app's youth, and the perceived barriers to entry, it's still the Wild West.