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Kanye West Tweets paired with New Yorker Cartoons

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August 5, 2010

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.

Community Comments

#1 Lucas Turnbloom
August/5/2010
@ 11:12 am

That’s brilliant!
#2 Paul Fell
August/19/2010
@ 4:23 pm

And this is funny how…?
#3 Gar Molloy
August/20/2010
@ 2:48 am

I’m gonna go ahead and find this sort-of funny, just to get the full spectrum of human emotion in here.
#4 Zoë Kirk-Robinson
September/29/2010
@ 10:28 am

I’m going to tip this one over to “funny” on the spectrum of human emotions, then. That example picture is great. :)
#5 rosantia
November/9/2010
@ 11:29 am

ha! Your comments are funnier than the cartoon!
#6 rosantia gilsa
November/9/2010
@ 11:29 am

ha! Your comments are funnier than the cartoon!

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