34 Unfunny Life Experiences That Are Actually Very Funny in Retrospect

Plus: 5 Revelations That Change How We Picture Historical Figures                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 October 14, 2023 | [Read Online]( [fb]( [tw]( [in]( [email](mailto:?subject=Post%20from%20Cracked%20Newsletter&body=34%20Unfunny%20Life%20Experiences%20That%20Are%20Actually%20Very%20Funny%20in%20Retrospect%3A%20%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fcracked.beehiiv.com%2Fp%2F34-unfunny-life-experiences-actually-funny-retrospect) Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about some incredible final words, the Halloween special that killed The State, funny tweets, workplace scandals, bodies ruined for comedy, and much more. Was this email forwarded to you? [Subscribe here](. [Do you know which celebrities hosted ‘SNL’ and which got snubbed by Lorne Michaels? Take our quiz!]( [Iconic Comic Book Writer Keith Giffen’s Final Words Are the Best Comic-Con Burn Ever]( Some comic book artists averse to the sights and smells of the average [Comic-Con](will flippantly remark that they’d “rather die” than go to the nerd convention. So far, though, Keith Giffen is the only one who has put his money where his mouth is. Giffen, 70, was a legend of the serialized superhero comic book medium, having worked with DC, [Marvel]( and [Dark Horse]( over the span of an almost 50-year career. The co-creator of classic characters such as [Lobo](, Rocket Raccoon and Jamie Reyes, the third character to assume the title of [The Blue Beetle](, Giffen passed away on Monday, as confirmed by his friend and longtime collaborator Paul Levitz. [READ MORE]( [The Hilarious Halloween Special That Killed The State]( Back in the early 1990s, MTV decided it wanted to stretch its wings and develop its own programming beyond its nonstop slate of music videos. Only one problem — it had no money. “They needed cheap, youthful programming, and a large amount of it,” [says Michael Ian Black in]([I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution]([.]( “The way to do that is to hire inexperienced people who will work for almost nothing—like the State, a sketch-comedy troupe I helped start at NYU in 1988. Fairly quickly, we ended up on MTV, which then launched the careers of several marginally successful comedians who you may or may not know today.” [READ MORE]( 5 World Records Achieved By Accident 52 Trivia Tidbits About Sacha Baron Cohen on His 52nd Birthday 26 Totally Wild Workplace Scandals 15 People Who Ruined Their Bodies for Comedy 5 Revelations That Change How We Picture Historical Figures 34 Unfunny Life Experiences That Are Actually Very Funny in Retrospect 19 of the Funniest Tweets from October 12, 2023 15 Actors Who Took a Role Because They Wanted the Money for Oddly Specific Reasons 30 Random Facts We Found in the Great Fact Library TWEET OF THE DAY [ARTICLES | PICTOFACTS | VIDEOS]( [fb]( [tw]( [ig]( [yt]( [tk]( Update your email preferences or unsubscribe [here]( © 2023 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2023 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. 190 West St. Brooklyn, New York 11222, United States of America