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Harry Jun: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

- Harry Jun

My strongest memory of the internet is pirating stuff off LimeWire and Kazaa. I felt pretty cool downloadin­g CD rips of Guido Hatzis albums and Adam Sandler’s Piece of Shit Car but I wanted more. My friends warned me that there was hella porn on LimeWire and I should watch out because I’d probably download it stupidly and get in heaps of trouble. I hated being patronised. Still do. That’s why I decided to make a point and fearlessly pirate a TV show just to brag to my friends the next day.

I snuck down to the family computer, opened up LimeWire and searched for this random sitcom starring Ryan Reynolds called Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. I was pretty much a pro at the internet by then so I only typed in the first half of the title. Two Guys and a Girl. I clicked download. Long story short, my friends were right.

The internet is cool, funny and scary. Here’s a list of other cool, funny

and scary stuff. 1. Kay’s Cooking

I’ve never seen someone be so monumental­ly horrible at cooking. Every video is both a work of art and a comedy goldmine. Kay iss either blissfully unaware of how bad she is at cooking or she is an Andy Kaufman-level comedic genius. It’s one thing for rice to be too dry or too gluggy but Kay somehow manages to burn a risotto to a blackened crisp. At the end she makes her son Lee rate her food and the way he crunches through this risotto makes me cackle every time.

2. He kinda looks like Bella Ramsey

The more I look at the picture this tweet is referring to, the more I laugh. It adds nothing to the social commentary that the original image is obviously trying to encourage but at the same time it kinda does? In an oblique way? I dunno. Let’s not dissect this frog. He kinda looks like Bella Ramsey.

3. Graeme Barrett

Graeme Barrett is such a good character comedian. You can tell he’s spent hundreds of hours hanging out with the kinds of people he portrays. I also love how much effort he puts into these sketches. I’ve got nothing against loweffort, churn-and-burn comedy. I have a bunch of friends whose careers were built off that. Do what you gotta do.

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‘My strongest memory of the internet is pirating stuff’: standup comedian Harry Jun

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