I wonder if anyone notices.
Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.
Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.
Thank you.
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?
Yeah it’s the Onion
Thank you! Good stuff.
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.
Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.
I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.
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.
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.
“Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too” 😄
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.