GOLIKEHELLMACHINE: i’m never gonna hand it to ‘em

haha Biden in riot gear that's so funny because Trump ordered people murdered during the Floyd protests

the hard times continues to be a significantly better onion than the onion has been in years

In this specific case the Babylon Bee’s headline about protests, while also being repugnant, was actually a tiny bit funnier.

i’m never gonna hand it to ‘em

The stupidest hill I will die on is that the Babylon Bee used to have a pretty good line of church jokes (and fucking hated Joel Osteen)

I still kinda crack up thinking of "New Calvinist Videogame Is 47 Hours Of Uninterruptable Cutscenes"

Back when they punched high and at their own religious crowd, it was super funny. Then management changed and they embarked on a culture war.

Lmao

“Calvinist dog thinks no boy is a good boy” was another good one

That's kinda great, honestly.

Okay, that's actually kinda funny.

That is legit awesome.

I liked this one

It did! There was a time when the Bee was irritating but generally benign and sometimes hilarious but those days are long gone.

Trump drove them insane but in a different way than it drove most of us insane

The Bee was bought by right wing assholes who took it in that direction. The previous guy was an ordinary fundie evangelical who was actually doing church satire, which occasionally was funny. Or funny-ish.

Yeah like they had some hits. "taking toddler to church just as good as going to gym for 3 hours, experts say"

I still remember that one that was like "church hires Black guy to teach congregation how to clap on two and four"

This is the kind of bland, Borowitz Report-ass barely humor I can be ok with.

The Babylon Bee of 1863-64 (“My First Sermon”; “My Second Sermon”)

The right just can't do satire. Satire requires disrespect for, or at least skepticism of, authority.

Yeah. The B Bee wasn't totally hilarious in its first incarnation, but the guy had enough of a sense of humor & was disrespecting the local foibles of church life. Nothing was funny after he sold it.

Their hit rate isn't *great* but looking at the past week, there's a couple of good jokes, and this *great* one. babylonbee.com/news/the-bab...

The Babylon Bee Has Announced We Will Lend Struggling Satire Site 'The Onion' One Of Our Two Jokesbabylonbee.com Upon hearing the news that the Onion had been sold off yet again this past week, the Babylon Bee has decided to step in and help the floundering satire site by lending them one of its two jokes.

That is a thousand percent more self aware than I thought they were capable of being.

They did have this one from a few weeks back that made me ask "are they learning?"

Same

The Babylon Bee has a second joke?

i clicked through and was *delighted* to discover that they themselves made that joke. they even dunked on themselves by suggesting, and then exploding, the idea that there might be a hypothetical third joke.

I think their newly discovered second joke is dunking on themselves.

yes. my liberal clergy friends shared babylon bee jokes, whoever wrote them had a good sense of denominational cultures

Yeah, agreed. It had a youth pastor vibe at times but it could actually be funny

And, under new ownership, is utterly unfunny.

They’ve got two “jokes” which are more mean than anything

I want jokes about Presbies, lutherans, and baptists darn it!!

Fog machines at worship service and bearded reform bros were great. Yeah once it got sold it was went cruel.

Yep, when they were making fun of their ingroup it was hysterical.

It's really hard to do satire without understanding that which you satirize.

you are right, that was before it was sold to seth dillon in 2018

it mostly poked fun at both sides with a focus on christianity but then it got turned into a right wing blog

correct

they really did have some bangers

Yes, "The Onion but for Christians" was good, "The Onion but for right-wingers" is trash

Even then, it was still a cheap knockoff of Ole Anthony and Joe Bob Briggs' Wittenburg Door.

It's the earnest aw shucks I've got an axe to grind that was always a tell with most of the BB stuff. You can't be a Jonathan Swift- level satirist with that level of secret resentment. We can smell it, and it ain't funny.

As well you shouldn’t. I come not to praise the Bee but to bury the Onion with it.

They're both still alive, but don't let that stop you.

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