Oden’s Junk

Greg Oden, Portland’s favorite “big man,” apparently took some racy pictures with his cell phone and then sent them via SMS to… someone. Naturally, they ended up online.

When Oden had a presser later to come clean and, uh, “open the kimono” about the affair, he downplayed the sexting situation.

“I took those pictures a year and a half ago. I’ve grown a lot since then.”

BADA-BOOM!

A young reporter, seemingly trying to avoid participation in such a crass circus, asked, “For the team, how big of a distraction is this?”

“About 10 inches,” everyone whispered under their breath.

BADA-BING!

Just to hammer the joke home, from the musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog: “The hammer is my penis.” Or in this case, Oden’s.

Letterman Apologizes To Palin

In Letterman’s brilliant apology to Palin for a misunderstanding over a joke he told, he states, “And as they say about jokes. If you have to explain the joke, it isn’t a very good joke.”

Because Your Own Medicine Is Funny

John Hodgman, on The Daily Show, promoting his new book. It’s fascinating.

As random as my sense of humor is — and I think we can all agree that it can be a bit scattered at times — Hodgman doesn’t do it for me. Oh, he’s genius as PC in the Apple ads. But most of his bits on The Daily Show don’t really resonate. Chuckle, sure. Laugh out loud? Not so much.

New Yorker Humor, Over-Explained

The wife and I enjoy occasionally entering The New Yorker’s caption contest. We have, naturally, never won. Patrick House, however, has won. And he’d like to explain how he did it.