Kanye West Tweets paired with New Yorker Cartoons

Alan Gardner August 5, 2010 1 minute 6 comments

Paul Sabourin, co-comedian in the musical comedy duo Paul and Storm, has started substituting New Yorker cartoon captions with recent Kanye West Twitter tweets – often with very funny results.

urlesque.com interviewed Paul in the motives and inspiration between the mashups.

The pretentious explanation: Kanye’s tweets are more or less raw id (unfiltered, portraying base emotions and simple thoughts) and New Yorker cartoons are almost entirely superego (carefully considered, ‘quiet’ presentation).

The simple explanation: it just struck me as funny at 3 a.m. Luckily, unlike most 3 a.m. inspirations, this one actually seems to hold up.

You can see a large sample of the tweet-toons over on buzzfeed.com.

Comments ⁶

Lucas Turnbloom

That’s brilliant!

Paul Fell

And this is funny how…?

Gar Molloy

I’m gonna go ahead and find this sort-of funny, just to get the full spectrum of human emotion in here.

Zoë Kirk-Robinson

I’m going to tip this one over to “funny” on the spectrum of human emotions, then. That example picture is great. 🙂

rosantia

ha! Your comments are funnier than the cartoon!

rosantia gilsa