The Internet's funny business tunes out

Superdeluxe, Turner Broadcasting's ha-ha video site, has finally shut down. Is anyone going to miss it — or the rest of the Web's other humor-clips startups?

Following Hallowed Nerd Tradition, Michael Phelps Dates Asian Chick

Yeah he might have a hot body, but Olympic swimmer and Son of Neptune Michael Phelps is kind of a dweeb. Those ears! That kind of lumbering awkwardness. Sure his glorious be-medaling has emboldened him a bit, but still. So it's funny that he's gone and done what so many newly-rich, videogame-anime-lady-obsessed nerds have done before him: he's found himself an Asian girlfriend. More »

Turner shuts down comedy site SuperDeluxe.com, and "no one could deny they were crying their asses off"

Turner will shutter comedy site SuperDeluxe.com and roll its content into AdultSwim.com, paidContent reports. In an internal memo, Turner Animation exec Paul Condolora writes that "in SuperDeluxe.com and AdultSwim.com, we have businesses whose potential for individual growth is limited by their increasingly complementary content." They say dying is easy and comedy is hard, but in this case we beg to differ. It all reminds us of the time — documented in an episode of SuperDeluxe's "Professor Brothers," below — that "a group of Marys went up to lay flowers and toys on Jesus's grave" and discovered "that there were doves, everywhere and they were crying their asses off." More »

Super Deluxe Becomes The Internet's Arrested Development

It's over! The most consistently funny comedy site on the Internet is getting folded into AdultSwim.com. Turner is shutting down Super Deluxe and laying off most of its staff, according to paidContent.org. Now the original web content will get stuck with clips from Family Guy and Adult Swim's increasingly weird-without-payoff lineup. The good news: The guy below gets a TV deal. More »

Breaking: Mysterious, Flashing Boxes Not Bombs, Just Poorly Conceived Marketing Campaign

As alluded to in the typically restrained Drudge Report headline above, the freakout level in Boston has been officially reduced from "Holy shit, someone is leaving crazy-looking bombs all over the city!" to, "Hey, no terrorist would ever use Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters to sow the seeds of mass panic! This is just an incredibly ill-advised marketing campaign, everything's OK!" as Turner Broadcasting has claimed responsibility for the harmless flashing electronic boxes it scattered around the city to promote its Cartoon Network show through the widespread soiling of the undergarments of demographically desirable population segments. In its "sorry for the unintended terror scare" statement, Turner indicated that the devices have "have been in place for two to three weeks" in a variety of other cities, including Los Angeles, so our own wave of marketing-induced hysteria should roll along just as soon a shopper decides to report one of suspicious blinking boxes planted in The Grove's parking structure to security, rather than just shrug their shoulders in resignation and agree that it's time someone finally took out that place. More »