Camels With Hammers » Comedy

Nihilist Quilting Project A Depressing Success

Daniel Fincke — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:10:11 +0000

The Onion reports:

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“I Don’t Get No Respect”

Daniel Fincke — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:57:38 +0000

In a Rodney Dangerfield mood today…

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Existentialist Star Wars

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:14:50 +0000

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The Muppet Show Does A Running Gag

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:45:21 +0000

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Lent

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:09:56 +0000

Jesus and Mo (of course).

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Jesus In, Zombie Out. Never A Miscommunication.

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:03:27 +0000

Idea by Rob Lewis, visual realization by United Atheist Front.

David Cross on Perceptions of Heaven

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:56:28 +0000

Hilarious (angry) stand up. He essentially starts at 0:50:

via Godless Girl.

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Jason Alexander Teaching Larry David How To Play George Constanza

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:58:53 +0000

I’m a big Seinfeld fan but I’ve only seen a little bit of Curb Your Enthusiasm and have been completely underwhelmed by it. But I just stumbled across this clip of Jason Alexander schooling Larry David on how to play George Costanza (the character based on Larry David and played by Jason Alexander on Seinfeld) and found it a fascinating meta sort of experience. It clarifies for me how much Seinfeld’s genius was not in its theater of banal absurdity itself (something Curb Your Enthusiasm has retained) but the talented cast’s, er, enthusiasm (which in the follow up show is all, well, curbed).

Ep. 70: Larry playing George

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“Weird Al” Does Lady Gaga

Daniel Fincke — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:17:10 +0000

Mildly scathing:

I’m disappointed to learn Lady Gaga has no sense of humor (or a thin skin). And, really, shouldn’t have Al just asked Madonna for the rights to the song anyway?

Many thanks to Ben.

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UPDATE: Lady Gaga has a sense of humor after all (or has decided to come off as though she does because of backlash):

Well, this was a strange day.

After putting my Lady Gaga parody on YouTube this morning – and announcing that it wouldn’t be on my next album because Gaga didn’t approve it – there was a huge outpouring of disappointment from the Internet.

Apparently the fact that she didn’t approve it was news to Lady Gaga herself!

Gaga’s manager has now admitted that he never forwarded my parody to Gaga – she had no idea at all. Even though we assumed that Gaga herself was the one making the decision (because, well, that’s what we were TOLD), he apparently made the decision completely on his own.

He’s sorry.

And Gaga loves the song.

I’m thrilled on many levels to hear this, because 1) I truly respect and admire Gaga as an artist and it pained me to think of her as having less than a great sense of humor, and 2) it means I GET TO PUT OUT MY ALBUM!

As promised, all my proceeds from the song (and the MUSIC VIDEO… I can’t wait…) will go to the Human Rights Campaign.

Thank you, Gaga. And thanks to everybody who had my back.

Whew!

Your pal,
Al

“Atheists Kill People”

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:38:38 +0000

A cathartic remix of so many of the most memorable demonizations of atheists from the last few years:

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