The only thing that's really not funny is a movie trying really hard to be funny but isn't. But that is not what this post is about.

For some reason I feel there is something intrinsically funny about the image of a man ripping the guts out of an 8-foot-long snake.

That's right, we're watching Man vs. Wild, and that means it's been a pretty great day. In my opinion there's a fine line between awesome and hilarious...I often find myself chuckling at intense situations (not in real life, good god no...I mean movies, stories, stuff like that. Come on, I'm not trying to get calluses on my smooth model-hands by putting myself in any sort of mortal danger, real or imagined) just because they're awesome.

Like Bear Grylls ripping out snake guts with his bare hands...or Howie Long pretending like he knows how to act in the gripping yet inevitably heart-wrenching major motion picture Firestorm.

So if absurdly huge forest fires and being stung in the face by a bee in the jungle and drinking your own urine for the sake of great (and I mean GREAT) television is funny, then what isn't? I maintain that pretty much everything has the potential to be funny. I am now open to audience suggestions as to what topic cannot be made fun of with class and wit. And don't say Nazis, because honestly, it's been done.

Whimsically,

Adam