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Michael Ian Black Spent His Sunday Roasting Joe Rogan

“I’m neither a fan nor a detractor of Joe Rogan,” confessed Michael Ian Black on his Substack in the aftermath of Rogan’s Burn the Boats Netflix special. “To me, he’s a popular, but largely irrelevant, entertainer. Sort of like Matt Gaetz.”

But that didn’t stop Black from spending his Sunday blasting the popular podcaster for his terrible jokes. One in particular stuck in Black’s craw, in part because he couldn’t even figure out what the punchline was supposed to be. 

Gary Larson Once Asked the Entire Internet to Stop Posting ‘The Far Side’ Strips

Despite being on the cutting edge of science and technology within the comic world, Gary Larson grew upset with the world wide web when he started seeing panels from his seminal work The Far Side pop up on the internet. Don’t have a cow, Gary.

The Far Side ran in print newspapers across America from 1979 to 1995. Seeing as Larson’s magnum opus only slightly overlapped with the dawn of AOL and dial-up internet, there was no need for the celebrated cartoonist to bother himself about The Far Side’s online footprint when he was still making it. However, The Far Side wasn’t just any comic strip, and the series has enjoyed an extended second life — both in clippings pinned to bulletin boards in public school science classrooms everywhere and on the internet, where nerds continue to come together and share our love for Larson’s distinct brand of surrealist physics jokes. 

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