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However unfunny the Mash might sometimes be (and I usually find something to smile about even if I don't guffaw) it can never be as unfunny as today's pie-chucker-in-chief.


This is Jonnie Marbles (apparently) - he is NOT hilarious (he is a dick) but will probably get a guest spot on Alan Carr now that he's managed to get himself part-illuminated by the glare of the Murdoch Spotlight, and people say satire is dead.


maxxi Wrote:

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> Although - referring back to OP - this DID get a

> guffaw (guffaw-let?) and was glad I wasn't eating

> soup.

>

> http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headline

> s/mancini-to-buy-entire-arsenal-squad-for-a-laugh-

> 201107184087/


That one was brilliant.

  • 5 months later...

Come now, ladies and gents, the Daily Mash is appalling. Just saying the opposite of what's true, with some swearing thrown in, doesn't equal funny. It's also v repetitive and a bit nasty. For wit, and something that leaves you feeling a bit cheered rather than depressed, The Daily News is farrrr superior. Does the Mash have any headlines with the wit of:

Police fear Chris Rea is still attempting to drive home for Christmas

or Billy Joel can?t remember why ?Cola wars? was one of the things that made him not able to take it any more

Question of taste, I guess. But If your gripe is originality, the Mash is a strange one to champion. Half their stories are about the Daily Mail. Yes, we get the point. And if we didn't, Russell Howard would remind us every evening on BBC2 from 7-11pm. It's a v limited viewpoint that we hear on all comedy outlets in this country constantly. And it definitely doesn't challenge anything, rock any boats.

And after I wrote that I checked today's story on the Mash and it's:

"Mail becomes cause of and solution to racism"

Well, indeed. Indeed indeed indeed indeed. That's more of an editorial column, not a joke. It's like a pub bore. There's no one reading that site who will like the Daily Mail so basically it's dead air, redundant. Not an ounce of revelation. There has to be the element of surprise for satire to be good, some angle we haven't thought of, which is why no one can touch the Onion ("Obama turns 50, despite Republican opposition" - ever seen a headline with that much wit in the Mash? Not even close).

I thought the Chris Rea on The Daily News one was brilliant. Still trying to drive home for Christmas. Love it. And it's reasons clowns are not sinister, which was also okay.

Am only a newcomer to the Daily News so may change mind but I do like that it actually has jokes. Loved the Downton one, great one liners. As for being wet, "Britain really fancies a pint" and "Britain desperately trying to download games onto Kindle" aren't exactly Bill Hicks, are they (currently both on Mash homepage)? Dire.

Anyway, no point debating comedy. I just don't see what's in the Mash that most other members of the public couldn't think of. I think its days are numbered. God knows why I've written all this. Do some work, you tosser.

  • 7 years later...

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