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Articles Written by: BRIAN RAFTERY
Wired staffers love Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Believe it or not, the demented antics of Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim might be the future of comedy.
But what’s so funny about the show’s gross, awkward sketches (like the one embedded above)? ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
4 Nov 2009
Before there was The Daily Show or South Park, there was Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed’s satirical eighties comic strip that centered around a sensitive penguin named Opus, and ribbed such cultural cartoons as Donald Trump, Al Sharpton, and George ...
The rules changed all the time—sometimes day to day, sometimes hour to hour—and whenever he tried to recite them, people thought, "This guy is nuts."
The rules dictated when and where Scott Adams, the chief engineer of the Dilbert comic empire, was ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
23 Jul 2009
On a Friday afternoon in mid-March Jimmy Fallon stands on the stage of NBC's Studio 6B fine-tuning tonight's monologue. Twenty or so Rockefeller Center tourists are quietly ushered in to watch the host of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tell one joke ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
29 May 2009
Ever since the mid-'60s, when thousands of bored and/or hopped-up Beatles fans wore out their needles playing Revolver backward, music fans have searched recordings for hidden messages. Often, the findings reflect nothing more than enhanced ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
12 May 2009
From Lil Wayne's cyborg-slick singing on "Lollipop" to the Twiki-tweaked vocals of T-Pain, use of the voice-enhancing software Auto-Tune has reached a fever pitch. But it turns out that the irresistible robot sound was also a big hit with the allies ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
19 Mar 2009
Yesterday, the NYPD purported to have arrested enigmatic ad-defacing subway artist Poster Boy, with the Post identifying him as 27-year-old Henry Matyjewicz from Bushwick. This morning, the Times casts doubt on the story, reporting that Matyjewicz ...
On February 8, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences will host the 51st annual Grammy Awards, a glitzy ceremony with a long, proud tradition of bloated asininity. (Our predictions: Bono will invoke the Clash and/or Nelson Mandela; Carlos ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
28 Jan 2009
Last November, an inebriated 24-year-old with the woefully apt name of Kyle Drinkwine was found by police in the back of a Wisconsin alley, his hands covered in blood. According to testimony compiled by the Smoking Gun, Drinkwine had spent the evening ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Slate,
27 Jan 2009
When "Weird Al" Yankovic packs for the road, he brings the following items: One red leather Michael Jackson jacket, one foam-rubber double chin, one Segway, one garden hoe, one silver dress suit, five Amish beards, five Jedi robes, and two accordions. ...
From BRIAN RAFTERY,
Wired,
5 Oct 2008
