Humor Critic Profile
Written on September 8, 2010 – 7:08 pm | by Rob Bock
One internet critic whose works I enjoy reading is Seanbaby. I first started reading his reviews of terrible video games in old editions of Electronic Gaming Monthly, when I was a kid and the magazine was still in business. I was delighted to see that in recent years, he has begun working with internet humor site Cracked.com as a featured columnist. Though his recent articles deal with a menagerie of subjects too broad to list, my favorite works of his are video game articles.
My number one favorite would have to be his ranking of the top 20 worst video games of all time. The fact that it was published over eight years ago means the article probably could use some updating, but I still enjoy it nonetheless. Containing video game bombs like Extreme Sports with the Berenstein Bears, Bible Adventures, and the infamous Custer’s Revenge, the list is a riot and definitely worth reading if you’ve ever played a video game.
(Link: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/egm.htm)
Another article worth reading is sadly unfinished. Seanbaby and several other humor writers attempted, several years ago, to review every movie on the AFI’s list of 100 funniest movies. Filled mostly with sarcastic quips about the movies, the list stops at #43, but it thankfully contains the writers’ list of what THEY think are the top movies of all time, which seems to be a much more accurate list.
(Link: http://www.seanbaby.com/ifls/index.html)
2 Responses to “Humor Critic Profile”
I had never heard of Seanbaby before I read this blog and I must agree wtih you — he is funny. Bible Adventures? Extreme Sports with the Bern. Bears? In some weird way, these games sound interesting. I have a knack for liking awkward comedies such as Napoleon Dynamite or Nacho Libre, so why not play awkward video games too!?!
Use the link function to create hyperlinks we don’t need to cut and paste. I would have liked to have read more about what you actually like about his writing. 7/10