What is Comedy?

A few weeks back, my good friend and colleague, Francesco Marciuliano, filled in for me for a week while I was struggling to stay alive at the Betty Ford Clinic. Well, Ces (as his friends call him, and I am one of those) has not been idle. He has a brilliant video on YouTube and it has become very popular, becoming the number one featured humor video. Don't be jealous, Ces is the sweetest and most humble person you could ever have the good fortune to meet and would be happy for you in the same situation.

Worst Choice Possible

This video shows McCain in his own words. You can't do this to just any candidate.

Underoos

Today's Bizarro is brought to you by Parade Magazine.

If you look very closely at the cartoon at left you may detect two subtle differences from the Bizarro cartoons I usually post here: it is horizontal instead of vertical, it is not in color.

How did you score? Give yourself two points for two correct answers, one point if you got one answer right, and if you could see no difference whatsoever between this cartoon and the usual Bizarro panels on this blog, stop reading now and take your meds.

As I've mentioned here before, I sell non-Bizarro cartoons to Parade Magazine and they publish them fairly regularly. The Spider-man one was particularly popular, so I thought I'd share it here. At right is another one that I like a lot, the basic concept for which came from a good friend of mine, Cliff Harris. He and I are collaborating on a children's book. (He's writing the book, I'm looking for children to buy it.) The book has nothing to do with this cartoon, however.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Satellite Sex

Bizarro is brought to you today by Forbidden Love Comics.

I don't have a car but I have rented ones with a GPS and I really enjoy it. If there is a choice of voices, I go for the woman's voice, because when I drive I like to pretend I'm Captain Kirk steering the Starship Enterprise, and the GPS voice is Uhura.

When I'm in a less geeky mood and just want to be myself, I name the voice and converse with her as I drive.
"At Cornhole Street, turn left," she purrs.
"Thank you, Trudy," I reply, "and may I say you look very smart today. That's a lovely color on you."
"Turn left."
"Yeah, I heard you, I'm turning. I have to wait for this car to get out of my way."
"Go 450 feet and turn right at Blacklung Avenue."
"I just said you look nice today, Trudy. No response?"
"Turn right."
"So you're not going to respond to my compliment at all? You're just going to pretend I'm not even here until it's time to toss out one of your monotonal directives?"
"Turn right."
"I heard you, for chrissakes! You just said it, like, 11 seconds ago!"
"You have arrived at your destination."
"Thank god! And if you're going to ignore me, you can just stay in the car! Bitch!"

Trudy and I seem to always get into this kind of fight. I've also had conflicts with Rita, Debby, and another one whose name escapes me. Uhura and I tend to get along much better.