Species Name: Exploiticus Greedicus
The term “evil empire” was originally used by Ronald Reagan during the Cold War in reference to the Soviet Union and their unrelenting arms race. Well that was the 1980’s and times have changed a bit. The new evil empire is not the Taliban, it’s not the GOP, it’s not Goldman-Sachs (although…fuck those guys), no the true evil empire of the 21st century is none other than Ticketmaster.
You know that warm feeling you get inside of you when your favorite band/comedian/sports team is coming to your city? Hooray! I finally get to see them in person! This is going to be amazing. You log on to Ticketmaster to purchase your ticket. Wow, $60 to see the Barenaked Ladies?! Oh well…it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. You hit purchase, then here’s where the real fun starts. In addition to your ticket cost and tax, you get hit with a “service charge.” Fine, whatever, Ticketmaster is the middle man, so they get the right to charge a service charge, although for a service charge, it would be nice to actually get serviced…you know what I’m sayin’ (winks). That has to be it though right? Nope. Next they hit you with a “Facility Charge?” Wait…what? Shouldn’t that be included in the price of the ticket? I don’t get it. Oh well, I just have to keep telling myself…it’s the Barenaked Ladies we’re talking about here. Fuck me! A “Processing Charge?” I just paid a service charge and now I have to pay a processing charge. What the hell is the difference?! Now I’m really starting to Hulk out. But man oh man, the icing on this cake of shit, is the most insulting one of all, the “Convenience Charge.” Listen assholes, any extra charge I have to pay is anything but convenient. Get your head out of your asses!
When all is said and done, your $60 Barenaked Ladies ticket is now $90. That’s right, $30 in service fees. This really chaps my ass, and the worst part is, there’s not a goddamn thing we can do about it since these douchebags have a monopoly on the ticketing world. Well there is one thing we can do, cathartically imagine a world where these tyrants of transaction charges didn’t exist.
In a world where Ticketmaster didn’t exist to ruin everyone’s fun in life:
- Bands like Pearl Jam wouldn’t have to invest so much time in taking down these monsters and could instead focus on rocking our faces off.
- Live Nation would have to go too. Beware! They merged with Ticketmaster, feeding the evil empire machine that much more.
- You wouldn’t have to sell one of your kidneys to try to go to a music festival like Coachella:
- You wouldn’t feel it necessary to take a rape shower after seeing the above tickets skyrocket from $80 in service charges! It’s a piece of paper! That’s all you’re doing is printing out a goddamn piece of paper!!!
- I wouldn’t turn to fits of rage when that timer tells me I have 3 minutes to purchase my tickets. I had to blow a tranny in a dumpster to be able to pay for these goddamn tickets, would you please calm the fuck down with the ticking clock? Christ!
- You wouldn’t need a PhD to decipher those encrypted word boxes, you know what I’m talking about:
Seriously? What the fuck does that even say? Would it kill you guys to put that shit in English at least. I know it’s for security purposes here, but what’s the deal? Are you afraid that these are the codes that could possibly cause Cyberdyne to go online and bring about Judgment Day? The unfortunate thing about Ticketmaster is that they are Cyberdyne, they’re the machine. Once they’ve drained us of all our money, they are going to send T-1000’s to kill us all. Where’s John Connor when we need him?
But one has to have dreams right?







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Species Name: Shutthefuckupicus Onenotecomicus
Would someone please stop telling this guy that he’s funny? “Hey Frank, do that John Madden impression again, it’s hilarious!” Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! It’s bad enough I need to watch this guy every week during the FOX NFL Pre-game show, but if people keep stroking this guy, telling him he’s funny, he’s eventually going to get his own show. [Listens to earpiece] “What’s that? He had his own show? How is that possible? What station was it on? Oh, TBS, oh that’s okay, nobody watches that station anyway.” Seriously Frank, your show got canceled, take the hint and fucking go away. For those of you not privy to the genius that is Frank Caliendo, exhibit A:
Now don’t get me wrong. Doing impressions can be funny…for about 35 seconds. The problem with comedians doing impressions is that once the initial novelty of going, “hey that guy does a pretty good De Niro” wears off, you’re bored. That is Frank’s problem. He’ll do a 4-5 minute sketch doing the same impression the entire time. If the writing isn’t good at that point, your spot on impersonation is just simply frivolous. And trust me, Frank’s impressions have always been compensating for a lack of funny writing. Comedy is fucking hard, but when it’s good, it’s incredible, and when it’s not, it’s Frank Caliendo.
In a world where Frank Caliendo choked while eating some buffalo wings:
All I can say is, thank god the Super Bowl is on CBS this year so when we’re all three sheets to the wind on PBR and processed cheese, cause this is ‘merica, we wouldn’t be forced to smash our TV’s when Frank Caliendo’s bulbous face appeared on it to ruin our drunken football watching experience. Everyone enjoy the Super Bowl, and I’m sure someone will do something really retarded during the game which will give me a fresh topic to bitch and moan about on Monday.
But one has to have dreams right?
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