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Janel Comeau

@verybadllama.bsky.social

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Writer, comedian, illustrator, blogger and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat. Writer of jokes in The Beaverton and Cracked.


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strange women lying in ponds distributing swords actually sounds like a pretty decent alternative right now

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you don't become old on your 30th birthday, you become old the first time you scroll past a high school picture of your friend on social media and then realize, with creeping horror, that you are actually looking at a recent photo of their teenage child

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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God

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live from the CNN presidential debate

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"it was just one really bad night" "if you really loved him, you wouldn't want him out there like this"

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the CNN post-debate discussion sounds like a family debating whether or not it's time to take away peepaw's keys

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every time the moderator tells Biden he has 40 seconds left she should probably clarify that that is not a medical estimate

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moderator: how will you address climate change? Trump: first of all, Joe Biden has been terrible with the blacks. We have great numbers with the blacks. Maybe the best ever. Biden: [wheezes like meemaw's 19-year-old blind Bichon trying to go home to God] Moderator: thank you

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it’s so important to remind young people that their lives won’t end at 30. their lives will end in a war fought over earth’s dwindling supplies of clean drinking water, probably when they’re like 28.

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true crime documentary narrator: how did this missing persons case go unsolved for more than 20 years? police officer: yeah so the family reported their daughter missing and then we told them that she was probably fine and didn't look for her at all

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my elderly Egyptian Uber driver happily informed me that he “supports the gays now” because he lives with a lesbian couple and “the husband lesbian is a better husband than I was”, happy pride everyone

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[slaps cybertruck] this baby can hold so many documents from my ex-wife’s lawyer in it

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[doing a Google search in 2012] having instant and reliable access to relevant websites is fine, but I’d really prefer to have all my questions answered by a deranged version of Microsoft Clippy that tells me to eat glue

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I’ve been in Paris for 72 hours and I regret to report that walking 16,000 steps per day and complaining about things over 2-hour lunch breaks has immediately fixed my entire life

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thanks friend!

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I have eaten the brain that was in RFK Jr and which he was probably saving to run for President forgive me it was delicious and I am just a worm

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on second thought, I choose TWO bears

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I actually think you’d do fine in the asylum where they raised me. They picked a pretty good one, there were decent snacks.

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you've got a fast car I've got a plan to get us out of here but you drive a Cybertruck and the car keeps speeding as we scream in fear

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once upon a midnight dreary while I wandered, weak and weary over to a quaint and curious icebox door when I spotted what I had been craving the plums that you were probably saving for your breakfast, I am sure forgive me please, I do implore I ate those plums and nothing more

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having now seen a total eclipse I can confirm that if I had had even 20% less context for what was about to happen I would have immediately started throwing people into nearby volcanos

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important eclipse safety tips: - never look at an eclipse without eye protection - ensure your eclipse glasses are ISO 12312-2 certified - do not listen to the whispers of the faceless men who emerge during totality, they speak only lies - always supervise children closely

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starting a cleaning service for people with ADHD. I won’t be doing any of the actual cleaning, I’ll just be calling you at random times to tell you I’m on my way to your house and I’ll be there in about 45 minutes

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boy are you the New York City earthquake, because you’re making a pretty big deal out of something that lasted like 20 seconds

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[spends decades passing laws that will let companies put poison in the food] holy shit why is there so much poison in the food

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my mom asked my French husband his favourite type of cheese for the family cheese boards, thinking he'd maybe want some Brie, and now she has to hike into the hills of central France to retrieve a cheese aged for 28 days on a bed of rye straw in a specific village

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Nicola Coughlan (Clare) is currently 37 years old, and Siobhán McSweeney (Sister Michael) is 44. They would have been 35 and 42 when Derry Girls wrapped up in 2022.

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nothing has sold me on the “millennials are aging at a weird pace” theory more than the realization that these two actresses are only 7 years apart in age

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"I don't get why you set so many alarms" congrats on being able to rocket back to existence every morning but some of us have to be gradually raised from the depths like the remains of an ancient shipwreck being brought to the surface

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born too late to remember Princess Diana, born too early to grow up in a post-monarchy world, born at exactly the right time to start baseless internet rumors that the Princess of Wales has spent the last three months playing an incredibly long game of Dungeons and Dragons

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I got about 8 seconds into explaining the Kate Middleton situation to my French husband before he told me, in the Frenchest voice imaginable, "ah yes, that's why we decided not to have those sorts of people anymore"

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[Kate Middleton, 14 Mountain Dews deep into the most crippling World of Warcraft addiction of the 21st Century] just photoshop me into the picture, I'm in the middle of a raid

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reasons to abolish daylight savings time: 1. disrupts sleep cycles 2. creates unnecessary confusion 3. I am not an 18th-century wretch trying to conserve papa's precious stores of whale oil

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dorks on the internet: women refuse to even acknowledge men unless they're 6 feet tall with chiseled abs every woman I know: I would spit in my grandmother's eye for the opportunity to hand-feed Jack Black a single grape

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women who kind of look like Kate Middleton with the right pair of sunglasses on have the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

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I’m very flattered that Google decided I am noteworthy enough to get a little explainer card when you Google me, but I’m wondering if it was entirely necessary to choose that photo

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dear diary, it has been 437 days since my husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances. alas, I am unable to inform the police, for I am a mere woman.

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it’s okay, everyone, I’ve figured out where Kate Middleton is

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gather ‘round, children, I know nothing of your slang or your fashion but I will teach you how to grow many fine beets

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I don’t need teenagers to think I’m cool, I need teenagers to think “that’s a lady who knows her way around a root vegetable garden” after the Collapse comes

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Hallmark romantic comedy movies dramatically underestimate the difficulty of becoming a senior magazine editor in the big city and dramatically overestimate the difficulty of marrying Some Dude from your hometown

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I make comics about the housing crisis and other modern-day joys at @allwitnobrevity on Instagram

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if you want a working stove at a reasonable price, I hope you’re prepared to live in the middle of a haunted bog

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once upon a midnight dreary while I wandered, weak and weary over to a quaint and curious icebox door when I spotted what I had been craving the plums that you were probably saving for your breakfast, I am sure forgive me please, I do implore I ate those plums and nothing more

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my city fires a cannon in the middle of town at exactly noon every day and every time it goes off the year is suddenly 1863 and I am keeping time with the sound of cannonfire, shrugging against the cold and counting off the days until my husband returns from the War

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sorry I missed your call, 95% of the calls I get are from robots trying to steal my credit card information so this entire method of communication is now dead to me

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justice for Amber Tuccaro, whose disappearance was treated so lightly by police that they released a press statement saying she was fine. her remains were found two years later and her case remains unsolved, despite her recording her killer's voice.

thehueandcry.com/amber-tuccaro

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true crime documentary narrator: how did this missing persons case go unsolved for more than 20 years? police officer: yeah so the family reported their daughter missing and then we told them that she was probably fine and didn't look for her at all

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phone calls are all spam. emails are all spam. text messages are all spam. if you want to reach me, pin a note to my door with a jeweled dagger or don't waste my time.

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As a wise man once told me, gotta catch ‘em all

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