Long-Dead Comedians and their fans on tumblr -

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Are you sexually attracted to silent film's most unsettling manbaby?

Spoiler: HELLO LADIES.

Do you think the world needs more obsessively curated gifsets of Buster Keaton's crotch and ass?

Do you watch Laurel & Hardy and think, I'd ship that?
Or worse, do you ponify that?

Spoiler

Or do you take things more in the Pooh's Adventures direction?

Spoiler: Her own characters look aghast at this shit.

How about some hot Chaplin-on-Keaton action?

Or why not bring ponies into it?

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The fuck?

WHAT IS THIS FRESH HELL?

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Also, her deviantart is full of catfish.

Are the descendants of yesteryear's stars upset by your obsession with their ancestors' sex lives, because you go out of your way to call their dead grandma an evil idiot bitch?

Do you come up with creepy excuses to urinate in someone's private home, and later brag about your actions in a public website?

Are normal fans scared of you?

Do you feel like a slut-shamed victim of the patriarchy because actual film scholars don't take you seriously?

All aboard the Tumblr train. Destination: Ass.

 

[exball]

Seems pretty standard tumblr garbage.

 

[Fredegunde]

I have no idea who that first guy is, but he is pretty appealing.

He is not fat, and I would have sex with him.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

hey…I HAD to go potty…nature called. Plus I think it was only fitting that I left something of me where Buster once was lmao

 

[EI 903]

I have no idea who that first guy is, but he is pretty appealing.

He is not fat, and I would have sex with him.

Harry Langdon.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Seems pretty standard tumblr garbage.

You know, I think you're right? I just...was not expecting this. Here I am, peacefully putting in a few billable hours at my side gig, doing research for a film studies guy, and suddenly wham! Tumblr everywhere. Like someone who isn't even scared of spiders will flip out when one unexpectedly lands on their neck?

While I'd suggest there are some uniquely fucked-up aspects to this dead comedians fandom - e.g., massive weirdness around the fact that Charlie Chaplin was a legit pedophile - tumblr's ability to poison anything isn't exactly breaking news.

Still, tumblr. shudders.

 

[bradsternum]

I thought this was going to be a Bill Hicks post.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

I thought this was going to be a Bill Hicks post.

I was actually rooting for George Carlin but sure, I'll go with Hicks.

 

[sasazuka]

My first thought when I saw "long-dead comedians" were Phil Hartman and Chris Farley.

I'm still devastated by their untimely demises.

 

[drtoboggan]

My first thought when I saw "long-dead comedians" were Phil Hartman and Chris Farley.

I'm still devastated by their untimely demises.

They're dead, but Andy Dick and Kathy Griffin are alive. There is no justice.

 

[MrTroll]

Not gonna lie. That is one hell of an ass on Buster Keaton, no homo.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

At least that ponytard didn't fruit up the three stooges.

 

[The Dude]

I thought this was going to be a Bill Hicks post.

Bill Hicks was the first person I thought of when I read the thread title. It's sad that someone with that kind of talent dies, yet a joke stealing hack like Dennis Leary is still alive. Hicks was a comedy god.

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

Buster Keaton|Seven Chances
Apparently, it hangs to his left.

Reblogging because I’m in a terrible mood and his enormous cock is making me feel better.

Anyone have a problem with that?

 

[bradsternum]

I love Bill Hicks, I just think he's given more credit than he deserves. (Much like Lenny Bruce, who owed a lot of his persona to Lord Buckley and Mort Sahl.) Most of the "deep insights" his fanboys rant about are basically what everyone says after baby's first acid trip.

To an extent, I feel the same way about latter day Carlin. I love Carlin, he's one of my favorite comedians of all time, but really, listing things you don't like and then saying GO FUCK YOURSELF isn't a punchline or social satire. Not to say he wasn't brilliant - some of his language critiques are funny and intelligent - but after his wife died, he kinda fell into a hole of bitter anger.

Anyway, OT. Tumblr. Lol.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

I love Bill Hicks, I just think he's given more credit than he deserves. (Much like Lenny Bruce, who owed a lot of his persona to Lord Buckley and Mort Sahl.) Most of the "deep insights" his fanboys rant about are basically what everyone says after baby's first acid trip.

To an extent, I feel the same way about latter day Carlin. I love Carlin, he's one of my favorite comedians of all time, but really, listing things you don't like and then saying GO FUCK YOURSELF isn't a punchline or social satire. Not to say he wasn't brilliant - some of his language critiques are funny and intelligent - but after his wife died, he kinda fell into a hole of bitter anger.

Anyway, OT. Tumblr. Lol.

Agreed but I've always said his later work was more philosophical than in your face anti-establishment stuff that got him started.

 

[bradsternum]

Agreed but I've always said his later work was more philosophical than in your face anti-establishment stuff that got him started.

Definitely. Carlin stopped being a comedian in the 90s and became more of an essayist. His last really funny album was probably Back in Town.

 

[cypocraphy]

Hicks fan can be annoying with their worship of him, I agree. I find him to be really overrated personally. As if nobody knew politicians were stupid before he came along or something.

 

[bradsternum]

Hicks fan can be annoying with their worship of him, I agree. I find him to be really overrated personally. As if nobody knew politicians were stupid before he came along or something.

He's one of those people comedy aficionados like to cite on their favorites list for the sake of street cred. But a lot of his material is very dated and/or stale. The guy was extremely talented, but his career was short, and he was very young and underdeveloped as a stand up when he died. If Louis CK had died in his early 30s, nobody would really give a shit because his early stuff wasn't that great.

 

[Grabthar's Hammer]

First thing I thought of when I saw this thread title was Chris and his bizarre (for someone his age) Red Skelton fandom. I guess I'm relieved that, given his... unique take on sexuality, he doesn't sexualize that as well.