4/16/2007
Humor Writer: Nothing Funny at Virginia Tech
Left: Subcomandante Bob, feeling depressed about the humor business
(Blacksburg, VA) The editor of a satirical e-zine in decried the "absolute dearth" of anything worth parodying today, after a gunman killed 32 people before turning his 9mm semiautomatic on himself.
"This totally sucks," said Subcomandante Bob, kicking a tin can on the commons of Virginia Tech. "It might be days before someone does something stupid and hilarious enough to get people laughing again."
The editor likened this current drought to the humorless weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
"Nobody cracked a joke for like, three weeks," he said. "Even the hardcore leftists wanted to bomb the ever-living shit out of something."
Bob said that he had no predictions on how long the mourning period will last.
"This could go on for some time," he said. "I may have to get a job bussing tables or something until the humor business picks up again."
(Blacksburg, VA) The editor of a satirical e-zine in decried the "absolute dearth" of anything worth parodying today, after a gunman killed 32 people before turning his 9mm semiautomatic on himself.
"This totally sucks," said Subcomandante Bob, kicking a tin can on the commons of Virginia Tech. "It might be days before someone does something stupid and hilarious enough to get people laughing again."
The editor likened this current drought to the humorless weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
"Nobody cracked a joke for like, three weeks," he said. "Even the hardcore leftists wanted to bomb the ever-living shit out of something."
Bob said that he had no predictions on how long the mourning period will last.
"This could go on for some time," he said. "I may have to get a job bussing tables or something until the humor business picks up again."
Labels: Blacksburg, massacre, Virginia Tech