Tag: funny
Even if you find Deadpool funny, you won’t get much out of Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ first DLC
Top 10 Tech Pranks: Harmless but Funny IT jokes
Yellowstone creator’s Stallone show Tulsa King has no idea how funny it is
All hail the Tulsa King of my heart
A private detective teams up with her 12-year-old self in this funny and sweet interactive fiction
A jaded private investigator teams up with her 12-year-old kid detective self to solve a mystery in The Grown-Up Detective Agency, a lovely bit of free interactive fiction. Bell Park doesn’t know how or why her perfectly precocious child self is here, now, but who better to help crack a case involving her former childhood best friend? And who better to offer fresh perspective on her adult life? It’s a funny little buddy cop story, and it made my morning.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Library – Entaus
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Netflix’s First They Cloned Tyrone Trailers Finds The Funny In Conspiracies
Netflix has released the first trailer for They Cloned Tyrone, an upcoming sci-fi comedy directed by Juel Taylor in his feature film directorial debut. The movie will be coming to Netflix on December 30.
The film’s synopsis reads as follows: “A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.” Based on the trailer, which is mainly the aforementioned unlikely trio riding in an elevator, the three joining forces are Jamie Foxx (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as Slick Charles, John Boyega (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) as Fontraine, and Teyonah Parris (WandaVision) as Yo-Yo. Check out the trailer below. But the conspiracy they’re investigating in the film, at least based on the trailer below, is still somewhat of a mystery.
Boyega, who is also set to reunite with writer-director Joe Cornish on Attack the Block 2–a sequel to the film that arguably launched both their careers back in 2011–said in a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance that he does films like They Cloned Tyrone because of pressure from his dad to pursue less purely artistic and emotional roles. Boyega told Kimmel, “My dad just wants me to jump off of buildings. He actually asked me why my career is not like Bruce Willis… He’s just like, ‘No, no, jump off a building, and then you’re a star.'”
Why Does Shovel Knight Make So Many Cameos? “We Think It’s Funny”
Shovel Knight, the character, made his debut in 2014 in a video game appropriately called Shovel Knight. The game was praised upon release and is remembered as a well-executed platformer inspired by NES classics. Since then, the game has received multiple DLC additions and Shovel Knight has appeared in spin-offs like Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon and most recently, the roguelike platformer, Shovel Knight Dig. More impressive, however, is Shovel Knight’s penchant for appearing in games that don’t have his name in the title. Shovel Knight has either appeared as himself, or been referenced, in at least 33 non-Shovel Knight games. He even received his own Amiibo and a line of kid’s meal toys with Arby’s.
Ahead of the release of Shovel Knight Dig, we spoke with Yacht Club’s Celia Schilling, who handles licensing and marketing for Shovel Knight, and asked a simple question: Why is Shovel Knight in so many things that aren’t Shovel Knight? “Oh, I don’t know. There’s a lot of them,” Schilling says. “We think it’s funny. It’s just that we’ve always imagined Shovel Knight as like an all-encompassing universe. To see Shovel Knight in different things, or like Arby’s kids meal toys–it just makes sense for our brand. And it’s hilarious.”
Shovel Knight Dig is much more than a cameo for the knight with a unique weapon. Dig is a roguelike that gives Shovel Knight a host of new abilities and upgrades, but unlike games like Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon (a puzzle game), Dig feels like it could almost be a sequel. It’s not called Shovel Knight 2, though, for a very specific reason. “It can’t be a sequel because it’s a prequel,” Schilling says. “It follows Shovel Knight’s point of view in his story, so it’s technically a prequel to Shovel of Hope. It takes you back to the good old days of him and Shield Knight just adventuring and beating up baddies and collecting treasure.”
Square Enix says Forspoken dialogue memes have “no context” – but admits some are “really funny”
Forspoken went viral in August. But probably not for the reason the developers and publishers at Square Enix would have wanted. A video was released on the game’s social media account that immediately caught the ire of the internet’s biggest meme-lords. Pastiches riffing on the game’s dialogue ran the gamut – there was God of War, Yakuza, Doom, Devil May Cry, and some people even said it came off like a Joss Whedon joint (ouch).
But, stay with me here, the game isn’t actually that bad in your hands. Really. I had over an hour to preview the title at Square Enix’s offices recently, and whilst the dialogue is a little try-hard, it’s not that bad. It’s one of those things; a trailer cannot accurately convey how a game will play out in your hands – the timing is off, the editing is wrong, there’s no context.
“I’m so happy you mentioned the word ‘context’ here,” says Forspoken creative producer, Raio Mitsuno, in a follow-up interview after our preview. “That’s been the the key thing for us in terms of how we’re trying to show fun things about this game without spoiling the story. [The trailers and social media posts] obviously come without the context that’s necessary to really understand it, and really get a feel for it.”