The Chaser's War on Gary Gygax

[Hairfoot]

Not as bad as it sounds. The Chaser's War on Everything is an enormously popular comedy program in Australia. For its website, the writers could have gone for a cheap, predictable poke at socially retarded gaming nerds, but instead they penned a funny and respectful article.

 

[hong]

Ha, the Chasers are more geeky than I thought.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

The Chaser's guys are some of the funniest guys on Australian TV at the moment (I'm sure many people heard of their Osama Bin Laden OPEC stunt last year). While I found their article quite funny, I can't help but think that it is still too soon to be cracking jokes about it.

Olaf the Stout

Edit: I found the article funny and laughed at several of the jokes. However, I felt wrong in doing so, considing that Gary only died a week ago. I'm a little torn on this one.

 

[Thurbane]

I think it's the type of article Gary himself would have gotten a chuckle out of.

 

[FalcWP]

If you're going to make jokes about someone dying, you better make them funny.

They made them funny.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Chuckle worthy. And I think has a real sense of affection. Anyone who caught their eulogy song would know that they don't pull punches if they don't want to.

 

[DM-Rocco]

I thought the Mord remark was great. That is pretty much how I picture any nerd story or metagamer.

You can tell this is humor and not meant as disrespect but instead as homage. I never heard a nerd write about another nerd with such passion

 

[Wandering Star]

Hahahahaha! LOVE the chaser. Come ON! It was great

I cant see anyone taking offense to that. Thanks heaps for the link, Hairfoot!

 

[Hairfoot]

Ha, the Chasers are more geeky than I thought.

I seem to remember that in the early, pre-CWoE days (when they were still ripping off articles from The Onion), one of the team had "writing articles for gaming mags" among his credits. I haven't checked recently, but it might be gone, considering that the site is now frequented by young, possibly attractive women, and not just political humour geeks (such as myself).

 

[Sound of Azure]

Good find, Hairfoot!

Still missing the boys on TV though