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The Joy of Dilbert

Published: December 22, 2025 1 minute 11 comments

“The joy of Dilbert: Scott Adams brightened our lives by mocking everyday indignities”

James Bovard of The New York Post writes a eulogy for the still-living Scott Adams:

Scott Adams

Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave the world “Dilbert,” is suffering mightily in the final throes of cancer.

After he departs this vale of tears, his glorious BS radar deserves to be prominently displayed in the Smithsonian Institution. No one has a sharper ear than Adams for contemporary American bloviating.

The “Dilbert” cartoon strip was launched in 1989 and caught fire in the 1990s. For many downtrodden office workers, posting a “Dilbert” cartoon in their cubicle became a tiny flag of independence.

No corporate or social trend was safe from a Scott Adams smackdown.

Dilbert by Scott Adams -May 22, 2022

Adams has left almost no Washington sacred cow unkicked.

At his best, Adams obliterated the dogmas propagated by bootlicking Washington pundits.

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Comments 11

  1. Is it fair to say Adams *darkened* some lives as well?

    1. I’d say so, if only for the debacle that was the Dilburrito…

      1. I tried one of those once. It was a one and done.

    1. The youtube link from Joe is a collection of audio Adams quotes, axioms, and advice about life from Scott’s Real Coffee podcast remade in a poetry-like fashion with background music.

  3. I put Adams in the category of “Back when they were funny.” Russel Peters was great when he was telling stories about his Indian immigrant parents adjusting to Canada. When I paid an astonishing amount of money to see him in person, his show was about zany bathroom humor and how men can fake an orgasm. ZDoggMD did great parodies of songs (It’s beginning to look a lot like sepsis….) but when The Pestilence hit he started taking himself way too seriously.

    Some people go on to become better and better. Some people peak early.

  4. Scott isn’t the first racist cartoonist, but he may well be the loudest.

  5. Great art is frequently created by hideous men.

  6. Proud to be a Scott Adam’s fan and proud to say I hate “THEM” too 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  7. Scott Adam’s spoke the truth about black people. There is a big difference between racism and realism. Facts are not racist.

  8. At least there won’t be many blacks at his funeral. 😁

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