Cracked.com: 4 'Geek Humor' Books by Authors Who Understand Neither

Seriously, they'll make you hate life itself.

Pat-Man made me crack up.

I liked "Carbolic the Hedgehog".

I also enjoyed "Pac-Man Imitating a Shark" and "Pac-Man Being Fed Intravenously".

edited 12th Feb '12 7:48:15 PM by Beorc

Whoever wrote this article doesn't know humour.

Well, it's SeanBaby, so YMMV.

So many pac-man puns.

Those really were terrible jokes, but damn, Seanbaby's commentary is the best thing on this planet. I could barely breathe. Thank you for this.

Can't say I really care for any of Seanbaby's stuff.

Ah,Seanbaby, I love and hate you so much

I found the article pretty boring. Yeah, the jokes were bad, but not bad enough to be funny, nor was the commentary funny enough to make it worth reading a bunch of bad jokes.

Seanbaby is the person every Internet Tough Guy thinks they are. Got to respect the mohawk.

Man, I loved this article. Hell I love any article of Seanbaby's where he tears into terrible books, especially the romance self-help books.

Godek is Seanbaby's Archnemesis.

"This book is so vile that blind people somehow know when it's in the room with them. They will look directly at it and hiss."

"If the English language had a rape whistle, it would be blowing it right now."

"This is how a sense of humor writes a suicide note."

Moan... I'm certain that Seanbaby has a new archnemesis now... and he Byrnes.

I can't believe that there are two Pac Man "joke books".

That was almost physically painful to read.

Yes? Aren't those sort of jokes like what all joke books are like? They aren't really special...

No, good joke books actually have decent jokes in them.

For example I have a joke book on a shelf right near me, and here's an example from it. (note: the book isn't really themed or anything. It's called The World Joke Book.)

"Children seldom misquote you. Instead they repeat, word-for-word, exactly what you shouldn't have said."

Most jokes in there are considerably longer, and quite a few are puns almost as bad as those "video game jokes", but this is just to show that there are indeed decent joke books out there.

edited 12th Feb '12 11:13:10 PM by Sabbo

>mfw reading those puns

I was very, very amused by how in the first one, he just got angrier and angrier and angrier at it.

Oh my god, I think my uncle had that computer joke book. Or at least I know someone in my family did.

He flails blindly at malapropism with all the grace of a tornado ripping out his catheter.

Sex offenders use his words to explain to children what's happening to them.

This book is so vile that blind people somehow know when it's in the room with them. They will look directly at it and hiss.

Eyeliner researchers are funnier than this when they explain to their boss why they need more rabbits.

This is how a sense of humor writes a suicide note.

These two sentences are all that remain of a Luftwaffe scientist's attempt at turning laughter into snakes.

John M. Byrne is so tragic that breast cancer walks to end him.

God, it's like those "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercials with the lever on full reverse. And it is side-splittingly hilarious.

So Seanbaby is still busy being awesome I see.

I'll echo the sentiment in the comments of that article that Byrnes and Godek should write something together.

From the title I was expecting him to be listing more satirical books, stuff that should at least understand the "geek humor" they're trying to do, so the fact that he's reviewing those silly joke books for kids is kind of disappointing. On some level they're supposed to be bad.

It's like if in that episode of the Cosby Show where Olivia goes onto the kids joke hotline, instead of listening Cliff went over to the phone and yelled in "YOU DON'T KNOW HUMOR!"

On a tangential note, I laughed - I had the 2nd place book when I was a kid. Heh.

There is something surreal about a line of Power Pellets being offended by Pac-Man's bad breath, and saying "He is socially unacceptable".

I dunno, I've been reading Cracked like a... well, crack addict recently, and Seanbaby is the one guy whose articles I always skip. The best Cracked articles are informative as well as hilarious, and Seanbaby seems to be so focused on ACTING CRAZY that he never actually says anything.