The only thing funny about The New Yorker’s “humor” columnist Andy Borowitz is the commentary on Twitter his columns inspire. His latest effort is no exception.
https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/542539113832783872
“On fire.” If only.
@RosieGray without even reading it, there has never been anyone whose humor is less edgy than Borowitz (outside of David Brenner).
— PLAY GLORIA (@nachofiesta) December 10, 2014
The main difference is that David Brenner was, you know, funny.
Protip: Borowitz is incapable of being "on fire." RT @RosieGray wow, Borowitz is on fire with the torture report http://t.co/4rglTNUTlH
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 10, 2014
@exjon @instapundit @RosieGray It's all the asbestos.
— N. Bourbaki (@d08890) December 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/bitingtea/status/542542074126819328
@exjon @RosieGray Oh, he's on fire. It's just that what he produces when he's on fire isn't what a funny person would produce
— John Tabin (@johntabin) December 10, 2014
Pages 23-45 of the Torture Report focuses on the CIA's illegal use of #BorowitzJokes. Detainees requested waterboarding instead.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/KimMarcumTexas/status/542543865220046848
@KimMarcumTexas And a Barbara Boxer GIF.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 10, 2014
@exjon Those 23 pages are only from the Executive Summary. There's an appendix with a list of jokes that was held back for public safety.
— Brownian Motion (@cobrownell) December 10, 2014
"I wish that Borowitz fellow was edgier." ~ Editor of Reader's Digest "Laughter Is the Best Medicine" column.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/miscRaymer/status/542547392914923520
CIA should redact Andy Borowitz columns.
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) December 10, 2014
"Oh, Andy Borowitz wrote something funny," said no sentient being, ever, from the origin of the universe to its final heat death.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/542546084309258240
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/542546622383943680
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/542546852454096896
@BecketAdams Someone was contacted by Support…
— Andrea Caruso (@AndreaNRuth) December 10, 2014
Apparently autocorrect switches Borowitz to Horowitz. #ThanksObama
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 10, 2014
@exjon Weird. My autocorrect changes "Borowitz" to "painfully unfunny hack soaking in his trite mediocrity."
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 10, 2014
Andy Borowitz represents the fusion of liberal sanctimony and dad humour. To my knowledge, this is not a pastiche anyone requested.
— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) December 10, 2014
Heh.