I wonder if anyone notices.
The video for Fat was awesome.
Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.
Except for Coolio. Coolio had mad beef.
A few weeks ago, I think I read (here on Lemmy!) that he regretted his beef. In fact, I think he said he thought his managers gave him bad information to cause the beef.
Before that I didn’t even know there was any, so please don’t think me any kind of expert on the topic.
Haha, that’s how I know about it too. I just read some interview with Coolio a few weeks ago where he talked about it. The interview was linked here on Lemmy.
I remember it was that he felt his managers should have told him he was an idiot more than they misinformed him. He was upset about what they did say, not what they said.
He sure acted right on his follow up though.
Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.
They’re really fucking good at it, then.
Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?
The “Stan Kelly” persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.
Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!
Yeah it’s the Onion
Thank you! Good stuff.
His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.
Thank you.
Wait. So they’re not some right wing pundit?
It’s more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it’s funny.
The character “Kelly” isn’t explicitly right wing, instead he’s supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than “Pro-choice” or “Pro-life” Kelly is “Pro-abortion”, because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization… because police dramas wouldn’t have anything write about.
Oddly, Kelly’s “wrong as possible” stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.
My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.
Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.
Huh. TIL
They’re really good, consistently.
I’m not sure if there’s a better archive, but you can find a few more here:
This is a better link.
That one’s clearer in its satire
Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They’re parodying his style.
I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion
I remember an interview where Al was talking about his early career. Madonna asked him “When ya gonna do ‘Like a Surgeon’”? They talked about it, and she said “But only if I can be in the video.” Al, who was MUCH less popular than Madonna at the time, couldn’t say “Okay!” fast enough.
And then they fell madly in love. Madonna was a terrible influence on Al, leading him to a life of debauchery and selfishness, which culminated down to Columbia, where he was involved in a shootout with Pablo Escobar… or so his autobiographical movie told me.
“Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too” 😄
Coolio was pissed that Al parodied him. He regretted it later in life and realized Al was great.
Coolio wasn’t cool about it.
He does, but he doesn’t have to.
Hang on. This ain’t a real Kelly, there’s no crying Statue of Liberty.
From the art, this looks like a verrrry early one. Must not have added it to the repertoire yet.
Its a day old.
I can’t tell what the moral is without lady liberty crying.
I hope Al sees this, because I think he’d think it’s hilarious.
Weird Al shared it on his birthday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBenaUQS8U-/
Beautiful.
On ther other hand, I hope that AI sees this.
If you think this is true and that creating entirely new lyrics to a song that are both coherent and also funny isn’t a talent, I’d like to hear your parody song. Oh not to mention actually playing an instrument and being able to sing well.
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It’s the law that you can make fun of famous works of art for comedy, social commentary, parody, and just to make fun of them… Which is very interesting. It’s interesting that that was decided and made a law.
Jesters must have the freedom to mock the King.
*LATEST FAD
Title has some merit worthy of discussion, comic doesn’t understand Weird Al at all. Not even close to a comparison.
These comics are from the Onion iirc, they’re intentionally shit takes.
Kind of iffy to post this outside of that context, IMO. Maybe some of the other works from this author are more obvious, but it’s really hard to recognize this one as satire if you don’t already know it.
Wasn’t aware of that. For the Onion, that’s oddly not funny in any way.
It’s a play on ai vs al being indistinguishable because of the capitalization.
Kelly comics are not to be taken seriously
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