Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy

• darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately for the Onion, reality has been more outlandish than their satire in recent years.

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  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, though the Bee seems to be having a blast with it.

    Today’s articles that got a legit chuckle: “New York offers to house Hantavirus patients in nursing homes”, “three Republicans thrown into fiery furnace for not bowing down to trump statue” and “Democrats prepare petard to destroy trump and Republicans; UPDATE: they themselves have been hoisted by said petard.”

    I dunno, I disagree with a lot of their positions but I think very little of people who only read that with which they entirely agree. And I respect good comedy.

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    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think they don’t quite have the subtlety I like though. The petard one is a good example. Imagine if they had just left the title without the fake update.

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      • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, I fully agree they aren’t as polished as the Onion. They tend to overwrite their jokes. But, I do enjoy them coming at things from a different angle. While dealing with trump etc, the Onion feels just the same as it’s been for the last decade, whereas the Babylon Bee feels just a bit different.

        I think of them as an unpolished comedian with good takes and if they tightened up, could be killer. Like, Josh Johnson. Guy is prolific as hell and has great ideas but, in part because he’s producing so much, doesn’t have the time or inclination to tighten it, if that makes sense.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those aren’t funny at all

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      • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        To each their own.

        Generally though, the person yelling “that’s not funny!” Tends to not be a great arbiter of humour.

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