Trey Parker, 2004 When the dust has settled, we may discover that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with The Book of Mormon, South Park and this ultra-funny potty-mouthed puppet adventure, have won comedy for all time.
One of the most exciting and infuriating books I have read this year is Big Brother by Lionel Shriver (HarperCollins), a very funny, ultra-original tour de force about a woman's relationship with her obese older brother.
While these two are likely to make an appearance at some point, the live show is principally an opportunity to showcase John and his vast repertoire of ultra-banal, wonderfully funny songs.
It was then that I discovered Robert Coover and his clean, lyrical, ultra-smart and wickedly funny stories, and I saw what I had been blindly striving toward made perfection.
He can get excited about all sorts of things: the aesthetic theory of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, "E.T.," Scandinavian art cinema (in June he gave a talk in Oslo at a symposium on Liv Ullmann and was relieved when Ullmann laughed at the funny parts), the ultra-green house in upstate New York he built in 2000, good food and fine wine and his studio's movies.
The game, London indie crew Roll7's funny bone-tickling ultra-violent follow-up to its BAFTA-winning OlliOlli skateboard sim (and its equally excellent sequel), came out at the same time as a shit-load of bigger, shinier titles with significantly larger marketing budgets and photo-real-enough viscera instead of chunky red pixels spilling over the screen.
The game, London indie crew Roll7's funny bone-tickling ultra-violent follow-up to their BAFTA-winning OlliOlli skateboard sim (and its equally excellent sequel), came out at the same time as a shit-load of bigger, shinier titles with significantly larger marketing budgets and photo-real-enough viscera instead of chunky red pixels spilling over the screen.
There was also something quite funny about swapping out the ultra skin-tight costumes of hyper-masculine superheroes with these baggy tunics.
It is a funny sight to find western ultra-liberals and local conservative conspiracy theorists actually in the same bed.
It's the kind of ultra-violence that goes so far as to be funny.
There were plenty of other bland and colorful distractions throughout the game: Rob Gronkowski appeared a lot; Melissa McCarthy was very funny as an environmental activist for Kia; Michelob Ultra used the song from "Cheers" to make CrossFit seem friendly.
