sometimes reality is funnier than a parody of it

here are kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb on nbc’s today show... watch it, it is very funny, like a self-parody:

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now here is saturday night live on nbc, doing a parody of them, which is not quite as funny as the reality:


and here is an earlier parody that saturday night live did of them back in january:


what is the point i am trying to make here? i think the thing that is being parodied is much funnier than the parody of it. some things are just so ridiculous that trying to make fun of them can never achieve the levels of LULZ that you get from seeing the original. for instance, how can anyone make fun of TIME CUBE? time cube is such a complete joke and example of EPIC FAIL that anyone who attempts to make fun of it is not even remotely as funny as the original time cube itself. many things in this world have reached such levels of absurdity that making jokes about them is a pointless task. we don’t need comedians to tell us jokes anymore, because THE WORLD HAS DEVOLVED to the point where everything is ONE BIG JOKE! comedy is dead, because how can you make a joke about SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY A COMPLETE JOKE without being LESS FUNNY than what you are making fun of? there is NOTHING left to make fun of. reality is so full of amazingly ridiculous absurdities, and they are so numinously ubiquitous that the lulz they provide are unavoidable except to those among us who lack a sense of humor. but sometimes even THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, when the INTERNET HATE MACHINE gets out of control due to HACKERS ON STEROIDS.