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[–] [email protected] 202 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.

[–] [email protected] 202 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're really fucking good at it, then.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?

[–] booly 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!

[–] ruckblack 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Thank you! Good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I've been eating onions for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're really good, consistently.

I'm not sure if there's a better archive, but you can find a few more here:

https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That one's clearer in its satire

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They're parodying his style.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The comic isn't serious

This is the artist for The Onion

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Al also happily shared the comic yesterday on BlueSky.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

"Ok, you can have a million dollars, but only if I can give you a car too" 😄

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Coolio was pissed that Al parodied him. He regretted it later in life and realized Al was great.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Respect to that. Weird Al has full on Dolly Parton vibes, but I can see someone who takes their music seriously and is up their own ass getting pissed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Coolio wasn’t cool about it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except for Coolio. Coolio had mad beef.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A few weeks ago, I think I read (here on Lemmy!) that he regretted his beef. In fact, I think he said he thought his managers gave him bad information to cause the beef.

Before that I didn't even know there was any, so please don't think me any kind of expert on the topic.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember it was that he felt his managers should have told him he was an idiot more than they misinformed him. He was upset about what they didn't say, not what they said.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Haha, that's how I know about it too. I just read some interview with Coolio a few weeks ago where he talked about it. The interview was linked here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

He sure acted right on his follow up though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

He does, but he doesn't have to.