Many of us, who are registered with social
networking sites and surf the Internet frequently, love to see updates, wall
posts or tweets that tickle the funny bone. Internet is full of sites that
serve humour. There are hundreds of websites and thousands of communities that
update satirical, funny and amusing messages, pictures and videos every day. Some
are interesting and a few are just ordinary. Anyway, these are the sites which
are the best ones to start your day with.
Fakingnews.com is an Indian website that
comments satirically on the political and social scenario of India. The site
suggests: “Please don’t visit this website if you are too religious, too
political, too sentimental, too serious, too liberal, or too anything.” Some of
the news updates of the website went viral on the Internet when some other news
sites, including The Australian,
re-printed the news ‘Unable to attract even a single girl, frustrated man sues
Axe.’
Fark.com is a site
with a twist for news lovers. It publishes satirical views on interesting,
bizarre and amusing stories submitted by a community of news junkies. It does
not select news on the basis of their relevance or importance but rather for the
stupid elements in them. It categorises news in many sub-categories such as
unlikely, stupid, silly, interesting, etc. The founder of the website, Drew
Curtis, says, “Fark is what fills space
when mass media runs out of news.”
Offisialatyachaar.com
is a website for employees who are not happy with their boss and want to vent
their anger. The site has several audio tracks with funny lyrics, including an
amusing anthem and jokes on the boss. The site also enables users to customise
jokes and send them to others. The site has several incomplete stories of official
torture (atyachaar) and asks users to complete them. Users can participate in
‘Boss’ Sick Name’ contest. Users can download wallpapers on office humour.
People can order T-shirts and mugs with funny one-liners on them such as ‘If
work is worship. I am an atheist’.
JibJab that produces e-cards shot to fame in 2004 with an animation featuring
George W Bush and Al Gore, the rival candidates in the Presidential election of
that year, singing their own version of Woody Guthrie's song ‘This Land is Your Land’. The website now
specialises in amusing personalised animated e-cards into which you can place
photographs of your friends and relatives. There is a
site Engrish.com
that displays the misuse of English in non-English speaking countries. It has a
collection of hilarious bloopers committed in writing English texts.
Some producers have chosen YouTube
communities to spread laughter. Mainduck a YouTube channel features ten online shows such as ‘U for Urvashi’,
‘Horror Scope’, ‘Cut the Crap’, ‘Sahi Rishta Matrimonial’, ‘Angry Vrajesh wants
to die’, and many more. The channel has over a million views and around 1,500
subscribers. Many stand up comedians
such as Rajeev Nigam, Kapil Sharma, Papa CJ Comedian, Russell Peters, etc.,
have their own websites to interact with their fans. There are many sites with funny content that will
make you roll on the floor laughing (ROFL). A few of them are:
Collegehumour.com, Oddee.com, Santabanta.com, Desicomedy.com, Funtoosh.com,
etc.
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