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For whatever reason, 23/6, the long-gestating humor blog collaboration between Barry Diller's IAC and The Huffington Post, has gone live on the HuffPo website. (The 23/6 domain itself remains password-protected.) The production has been described as "an online alternative to NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' or Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show'" but if what we're seeing here is any indication, we're pretty sure that Lorne Michaels isn't exactly crapping his pants in fear right now. Every joke feels strained, obvious, and rewritten to the point that all the humor has been drained from it (which is, we guess, the "Saturday Night Live" model): The whole thing makes VH1 webortion 24Sizzler read like a model of Lenny Bruceian comedic brilliance, and that site is such a disaster that the mentally retarded are suing to ensure that no one thinks they're its intended audience.
Now, we love us some Huffington Post: Arianna's comically-accented fearlessness, Laurie David's hypocritical stridency, and Rachel Sklar's rack have provided us with countless hours of entertainment. But this thing is almost as sad and tragic as genocide, without genocide's saving grace of at least being a well-defined plan with a clear goal. We'd smack our monitor and yell, "BE MORE FUNNY," but that would give the site credit for being funny in the first place, and with headlines like "Britney Spears Appears on the Cover of Allure: Re-Touch Me Baby One More Time," that is not a credit which we are willing to extend. We'd actually rather read Nora Ephron babbling about her sagging throat skin. DO SOMETHING, Barry Diller, this is appalling!
23/6 [HuffPo]
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Earnest, well-intentioned folk trying to be funny. [Pause.] I suck.
It's like Greg Gutfeld and Andy Borowitz found an old copy of The Onion. And didn't get it.
Oh, no, no, no, don't try to be intentionally funny.
Am inclined to cut the kids some slack. They all can't be Fox News, you know.
I applied for a job with them and didn't get it. Good for me, I guess.
@KarenUhOh: The unintentional humor is in the comments, which seem to consist of 20 percent not getting it and 80 percent conspiracy theories.
@TedSez: It's like riding a bike. It's funny when you fall off.
I cannot recall ever seeing the words "Arianna Huffington" and "funny" in the same context. I ran into her at one of Bill Clinton's Renaissance Weekends. (Working stiff, not an invitee). She was at once overbearing, annoying, whiny, comically ignorant, and looked like a plastic surgeon's nightmare. But not funny, no.
Good points, but 23/6's editorial problems could easily be solved with the addition of some of that Julia Allison hateworship that's so hot right now, and a little more comedy written by cocks.
Oooh, opening up with a Balthazar joke! That's a stinging slice 'o life zinger, uh?
You know, I'm reading this post as a general critic of my whole commenting style. "BE MORE FUNNY" is something I often find myself saying as soon as I've hit submit.
I honestly can't tell the difference between these posts and the regular HuffPo posts.
@Aatom: ouch.
I see they stole their re-touched photo from Perez Hilton. you've gotta be pretty hard up for funny to steal from Perez.
@Alex Blagg: I'm sorry I was mean about 24Sizzler. It's My Cock's favorite site!
@Balk: Balk, when you or your cock disrespects the Sizz, you're disrespecting all of Viacom, which means we may have to consider dispatching our vast army of "gossip gurus" to destroy you and your cock with sizzling juiciness.
Why do you need Viacom for your cock if you've already got a 24Sizzler?
"I cannot recall ever seeing the words 'Arianna Huffington' and 'funny' in the same context."
Try adding the suffix "-looking." As in, "Arianna Huffington-looking is funny."
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