The Currant is a satirical site, or a “fake news site” as some prefer to call it. They obviously want to be The Onion when they grow up. The fact that they named themselves after an edible product should be a clue. I don’t quite get what’s funny about currants, but, to be fair, there’s nothing particularly hysterical about onions either, except for that exchange between Shrek and the donkey.
Recent Polls Show Pizza With a Far Higher Approval Rating than Mayor Bloomberg
Anyway, they’ve got a long way to go before they achieve the advanced level of sophisticated humor for which the Onion is known and loved. (personally, I don’t think either of them is as good as Wonkette, but mostly I just read that for the comments section.)
Generally, an article in the Currant just takes somebody who is in the news, has them do or say something totally over the top and expects the audience to laugh because HAH hah!, Michele Bachmann is stupid. They did one recently about how Sarah Palin wants the U.S. to invade Czechoslovakia on account of the Boston bombing, and a lot of people on my facebook page believed it, because there’s just about no stupid statement that people think Sarah wouldn’t make, about Russia or Africa or, such as, doncha know, you betcha.
Then they wrote one the other day about how some pizza place in New York had refused to serve Mayor Bloomberg a 2nd slice of pizza, in retaliation for his ban on big gulp drinks, which has sort of become a punchline in itself because, seriously, those drinks are totally for fat people but banning stuff is unAmerican. The thing is, Drudge picked up the story and ran with it.
Dumb Drudge Report, that’s pretty funny, huh?
Except it’s not, really. I don’t have any objection to lampooning anybody, especially not a neo-Rockefeller scumbag like Bloomberg or sub-par Sarah, but it’s not funny if it’s not funny. A joke has to contain something like a joke somewhere in it, something that inspires a person to guffaw or at least chuckle amusedly, and The Currant doesn’t have that.
Could be, it’s all a business strategy. “Nobody’s looking at our site, what can we do?” “I know, we can just make up a whole bunch of shit that’s actually pretty believable and see how many people we can get to like it and upload it to YouTube. Then, when somebody calls us on it, we can just say ‘We were only kidding, look , it’s a humor site.’ Meantime, our page hits will go through the roof.”
It’s a lot easier than writing comedy.
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