Now Playing: 07: Fred Formulaic

I don't hate Fred Basset. I don't even dislike the strip. I'm just bemused as to how it got so famous - there's nothing about it that is humorous. Don't take my word for it, have a look through the archive for a funny joke. In fact, try and find a single joke, funny or otherwise. I'm confident you won't, since I went through the entire thing looking for the above images.

Aaron Yonda (of Chad Vader fame) has a 'documentary' of sorts on Fred Bassett. I say 'documentary' because he doesn't really find out any answers, he just gets sucked into the unfunny vortex and despairs a lot. Which is fair enough.

And of course, I'm not the first person to doctor shitty newspaper comics. It wouldn't be decent or proper not to mention David Malki ! of Wondermark fame and his extremely well written (yet sadly retired) comic strip doctor. Enjoy!

-Z