No More Mr. Fat Guy!

Including a lot of “comedians”. Trouble is, almost everyone is convinced that he or she’s hilarious. Yesterday, someone from National Lampoon’s website left a link in my comments promoting a short video they made about two fat guys pigging out and (allegedly) cracking wise at a mall food court. Their motto is Live Fat, Die Young, and Leave a Large Looking Corpse. But there’s nothing funny about the video. It’s just two fat slobs pigging out. Me and Heath could’ve made a funnier video than that.

This is the same National Lampoon that gave us Vacation and Animal House? How sad. Of course, they haven’t done much since then - check out any of the other Vacation movies for proof, especially Vegas Vacation. And Vegas Vacation looks like Oscar material compared to what they’re putting out lately. But if you ever get a chance to pick up some issues of National Lampoon magazine from the early to mid 1970s, you’ll see what humor and comedy are all about. There’s never been anything like it since, and there never will be. National Lampoon died when Doug Kenney and Henry Beard and Michael O’Donoghue left the magazine back in the 70s. Movie comedy pretty much died when Kenney fell or jumped off that cliff so many years ago. And seeing what’s put out these days in the name of National Lampoon is just sad. Do me a favor, Phil Haney, and don’t leave any more links to your site in my comments. Thanks.

There’s also a contest going on at Project Breakout. They’re inviting people to submit funny homemade videos in order to “anoint the next comedy star”. Yeah, well, let me know how that works out for ya. Because after browsing some of the submissions, I’m not all that hopeful about the prospects of a new comedy star emerging from this fiasco, unless by “star” they mean “black hole”. One girl does a rap about Turbo Tax software. Ooh, somebody pinch me. There’s another one where a guy is pretending to host a TV show. He introduces his next guest, Meryl Streep. He then looks at Streep and discovers that’s it’s not her, but just some guy. He then begins screaming over and over. For a minute there, I almost thought I’d died and gone to comedy heaven.

Then you’ve got your pros, like Carlos Mencia. Of course, he’s not funny either, but he doesn’t have to be. He just steals everyone else’s material. He tries to deny it, but there’s no denying this blatant ripoff of Bill Cosby. And his real name isn’t Carlos Mencia, it’s Ned Holness. Now, that’s funny. Just watch the videos at that link.

I realize this post has nothing to do with losing 100 pounds. Whaddya gonna do - call the Better Weight Loss Bureau? Oh yeah? Well, be sure and tell ‘em Fatty sent ya. I might get a commission!