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What Sucks…Homeless Dudes Who Hold The Signs That Say “Give Me Money For Weed Or Beer”

June 12, 2015, 10:28 am
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What Sucks...New @Holes Comedy Show This Monday Night 6/22!

June 19, 2015, 4:41 pm
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HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! 

@HolesComedy Show is back!  

This Monday night- the day AFTER Father'sDay- so bring your old man, or step dad- anyone who might have done the nasty with your mom and enjoy an awesome show with awesome comics- 

On the show comedian Chuck Nice...

The filthy folk-music of Jessica Delfino...

Matt Goldich of Late Night with Seth Meyers...

Vanessa Fraction of BET...

plus the music of new house band The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal and the final NY Appearance of the one and only Buttah Man!  

Monday night, 9PM at West End Lounge!  

Finally, a place in NYC to see comedy! 


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What Sucks Presents...Lousy Ways To Use Go-Pros!

June 12, 2015, 9:10 am
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What Sucks…Asparagus!

June 22, 2015, 9:03 am
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What Sucks…Subway Performers Who Suck: A What Sucks Investigative Report! Part 1: People Who “Drum” on Over-Turned Buckets.

June 24, 2015, 10:00 am
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It’s a widely accepted fact in New York City that the act of going down into the subway is not unpleasant enough.  The subway just doesn’t stink enough, there are far too few rats and without question, it is WAY TO FUCKING QUIET. 

So as New Yorkers, let us take our hats off to one of the underrated heroes that make traveling underground the experience that it is, the Subway Performer Who “Drums” on Over-Turned Buckets. 

That sound, so pure- it’s no wonder when I look back at old films of Buddy Rich or Ginger Baker, I always see them banging away on something that says “Cold Slaw” written on it, upside down.  Here’s my question, when New Yorkers give them money, the general idea is that we’re paying them to stop, right?  Hey “bucket drummers”, take the hint!

So, are these guys licensed?  Because from my understanding of Law & Order repeats, subway performers have to be granted a license from the city, or I don’t know if they weren’t we’d probably end up with a bunch of assholes down there banging on buckets!  But, are these guys actually allowed by the city to be there? Or, when a cop approaches do they just quickly get up, grab a fishing pole, and throw a blue-fish in their “floor tom”?  And yeah, it’s a floor tom, its all floor toms with these guys.  There is no snare, it’s a goddamned bucket. 

Now look, I am not saying they should be thrown in jail- I know their trying to make a living, but isn’t it time we did something about this?  How bout some kind of American Idol thing- there can be judges- a bum covered in his own filth, a rat and a person who administrates “stress tests” for the Church of Scientology.  They can review the street performer and determine where they go.  It’s a compromise, and it could be a step in the right direction.  Or just put these fuckers on the G Train, where they can bug the 14 people a year who take that thing to wherever it goes (the Island in Lost?). 


Next in the series: The Steel Drum!
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What Sucks…Quick Hits: Elderly Twins, Cab Drivers, Mummenschanz, Mistresses

June 25, 2015, 8:30 am
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…Elderly Twins
Stop going out in public, running into you in any setting is chilling!


…Cab Drivers
I don’t even want to talk to these dudes to tell them where I want to go, yet they’re constantly on the phone- what lonely soul is on the other end of that phone?!

…Mummenschanz
If Judgement Day comes down the way they say it will, we're gonna have a hard time explaining this.

 

 …Mistresses
Stop kissing the inside of shirt collars like that- ESPECIALLY if you're gonna wear that much lipstick!
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What Sucks...Stamps in Finland!

May 9, 2014, 2:52 pm
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Let’s face it, in the US, snail mail is dying a slow death.  The concept of writing a letter, putting a stamp on it and mailing it is a lost art and is being replaced by email, texting, IMing and any number of different ways we can communicate.  But can your texting do this?!

Finland is introducing a new series of stamps, that well, we’ll just say, if you need to lick them, just be careful. 
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What Sucks…The NSA! (Vol. 1)

June 5, 2014, 8:44 am
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The NSA, you know the people apparently reading your emails, listening in on your phone calls and examining your texts- they’re sick of you texting that girl “U up?” by the way, are looking into acquiring software that can detect sarcasm in real time on social media. 

I guess they got tired of kicking in doors of teenage girls who felt if Caitlin Jacobs and Jaret Evans went to prom, they’d quote “SERIOUSLY kill someone, I literally,can not even.”

The software will be designed to analyze data pertaining to “geographic segmentation, sentiment and trend.”  Which is just great. 

Thanks, NSA.  You guys are really doing some great work. 
  
And if you commission a sarcasm detector, you also may want it to be compatible with something other than “Internet Explorer 8.”  Unless you’re looking for intel on what browsers people use to download Google Chrome. 

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What Sucks…Eric Cantor: So Long, Douchebag Edition

June 11, 2014, 9:15 am
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Eric Cantor, (more like Eric CANTor- you all can use that!) one of the country’s leading douches, and the very douche to tweet the above thanking BOSSES for their contribution on Labor Day, was voted out of office this week, for ironically, at least on the surface, failing to be a big enough douche.  I say this because he was defeated by someone named Dave Brat, who apparently out-flanked Cantor on the right.  I guess Cantor’s “fuck immigriants” stance could in fact by trumped by Brat’s “no, seriously, REALLY fuck immigrants.” 

Brat for what it’s worth is a college economics professor, with a deep love for all things Ayn Rand.  I’ll give him a tiny bit of latitude on the Rand thing- normally a harbinger of assholishness for any adult- because, let’s be honest, it’s not until after you leave college that you realize Ayn Rand is garbage. 

Any way you slice it, Eric Cantor was defeated.  Is it a teachable moment?  Sure.  The lesson? Don’t be such a douche, OR be as big a douche as you possibly can, because some other douche is always waiting in the wings to out-douche you.
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What Sucks Presents…Doctor or Not A Doctor!

June 16, 2014, 2:17 pm
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With Measles making a comeback like and set to go on tour with mumps when school starts up again this fall, WhatSucksBlog thought it might be time to play a round of it's brand new game show, Doctor...or NOT a doctor.  See how well you do! Winner doesn't get a disease basically wiped out a few short years ago! 



Answer: A doctor!



Answer: NOT a doctor!


Answer: A doctor!




Answer: NOT a doctor!



Answer: NOT a doctor, this is Jenny McCarthy dressed as a big strawberry!

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What Sucks Salutes Women With Bad Taste In Men: Leidy Figueroa!

July 3, 2014, 8:33 am
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Pretty soon, Leidy Figueroa will marry Joran Van der Sloot, if you want to get them a gift they are registered at Crate and Barrel, and Batesville Casket company!  I hear the vows are, “to have and to hold till she does an extensive google search!”  I can’t believe they’re getting married- I thought this would be more of a May- December thing, you know, with him killing her in December!
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What Sucks…The TSA’s Instagram!

July 7, 2014, 9:13 am
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 If you get a second and want to be disturbed to the point where you can’t sleep, head on over to the TSA’s Instagram feed- and relax, because it’s not pictures of you being patted down or going through a body scanner- yet.

But don’t relax because it is a bunch of pictures of the many weapons homemade and purchased, that people have been stopped with while they were getting on a plane. 

You got homemade grenades, guns, Chinese throwing stars and even a spear gun- and this is just the stuff they’ve caught! 

A goddamned mace! 
Don’t worry though, the airlines say they’re cracking down and have assured us anyone bringing a Spear Gun on a plane will be charged a $25 dollar carry-on fee.  



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What Sucks...Carly Fiorina!

September 18, 2015, 12:33 pm
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What Sucks...Doggy Day Care

September 29, 2015, 4:54 pm
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Greg Giraldo died on this date 5 years ago and while I was not close with him, I did pitch and write this bit for his show Stand Up Nation with Greg Giraldo. The pitch I wrote was a paragraph of about 5-7 sentences, Greg made all the jokes you see in here and is the reason its funny. He was a great, great comic. I worked on his show as a contributing writer and got to hang out in his offices for some tapings and a couple of late nights on nights before tape-days. In the time I was around him in the office he was a very cool guy and just really, really funny. Not really knowing him, I still definitely miss the guy and am very proud to have been able to write something he did. Man, he was funny.
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What Sucks…Subway Performers Who Suck: A What Sucks Investigative Report! Part 2: The Steel Drum

January 11, 2016, 8:00 am
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Picture yourself on a beach in the Caribbean.  You are surrounded by beautiful flowers, a delicious frozen drink in your hand.  Your feet feel the fine, pink sand under them as a light breeze blows.  You look out into gorgeous crystal-blue ocean and begin to walk toward it.  Everyone in your line of vision is smiling and yes, behind it all is the subtle sound of a man using mallets to hit a steel drum.  How can this scene possibly get any more relaxing? 

Now picture yourself in a subway. You’re surrounded by crazy people anxiously awaiting the arrival of their train.  They need to get home, they’re late, they DON’T WANT TO BE IN THE SUBWAY and either do you.  Then, a person, begins to hit a mallet on a steel drum and you begin to vaguely make out John Lennon’s “Imagine”, but only one note at a time, and without any of the resonance the song carries with it.  Also, it’s really loud, and the pitch of the drum rips apart your ear as there is no large open area (the beach) or giant ocean to absorb the sound.  And the man hitting the drum is not smiling, he is not wearing shorts, or a colorful hat or a tropical styled shirt.  You almost long for the sound of the screeching wheels of a subway to drown out the clang of his drum, but its is still audible and he’s done with “Imagine” and moving on to “New York State Of Mind” by Billy Joel.

There is no way to confuse a tropical beach with a subway platform.  Everything about the two is different.  Sights, sounds, smells…tastes.  It is a place where Steel Drums have no earthly place.  No one hears a steel drum in the subway and says, “Oh yeah, this reminds me of a fucking tropical paradise.  This makes riding this underground train/ bathroom much better.” 

Also, let’s not forget this- the steel drum itself sucks.  It’s clangy, awkward and the opposite of soothing.  Matter of fact, and I am sure I will upset some of the “steel drumpurists” who regularly stop by my blog, but, I’d venture to say the tropical paradise setting is the only reason we tolerate the steel drum in the first place.  In an unscientific study I am conducting on Spotify right now, no one outside of the dude who runs your local “Cheeseburger In Paradise” shithole, is streaming anything with a steel drum in the continental US.  I’m sure many of us would move to stop a steel drum player ruining our day at the beach, if we weren’t immediately distracted by beach chair and a drink on our way over to kill him. 

So, get the steel drums out of the subway.  Subways are a place for rats dragging pieces of pizza, or bodies of other dead rats.  Having a steel drum on a subway platform, or having a subway train at a Caribbean beach for that matter, defeats the purpose of having a subway platform or a Caribbean beach, respectfully.  They can’t and shouldn’t exist in each other’s universe.   It’s like going to a public restroom, where they serve fine French cuisine. 

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What Sucks…The Reaper

January 11, 2016, 11:29 am
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There’s not much to say here. David Bowie was a giant creative force for good in the universe and his loss makes this planet a much less cool place. The man has been responsible for a tremendous output of art over the course of his life. I can’t even keep a blog going. All I’ll say is this- don’t focus on him being gone, as much as should focus on everything he left behind. The guy was an alien sent from a very cool planet, we were lucky to have him.

Here’s Blondie doing Heroes. Followed by Nico doing Heroes. Followed by The Wallflowers doing Heroes. Followed by King Crimson doing Heroes. Followed by the man himself doing an acoustic version of it.











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What Sucks…The Reaper

January 12, 2016, 12:24 pm
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Well, it looks like the Reaper has decided to be a real asshole this week. On Monday, he took the great Bowie, then, the next day, he took one of the great “that guy” actors of his generation,David Margulies.  You’ll remember Margulies as the Mayor in Ghostbusters.  It’s his “Lenny”, whose non-verbal as Bill Murray’s confirms that William Atherton (another great “that guy” actor), is “dickless”, that really cements that scene.  Add to it that Margulies also has to take in Ernie Hudson telling him he’s seen “shit that would turn you white”, followed by the “dogs and cats living together/ mass hysteria” rant, and you’ll forget that he’s the guy in the scene who’s NOT recognized as a American Comedy legend. 

You’ll also recognize this guy as Tony Soprano’s lawyer. 

RIP, Mayor Lenny, and thank you for saving the lives of millions of registered voters. 
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What Sucks...This Guy

January 14, 2016, 1:07 pm
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What Sucks...The Reaper

February 29, 2016, 7:45 am
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Colorful character actor, George Gaynes, whose memorable turns as Soleil Moon Frye’s step-dad in the 1980’s sitcom “Punky Brewster”, as well as Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in Tootsie, died this month at the ageof 98. 

Gaynes, who was also a veteran Broadway stage actor as well as a trained opera singer, will unfortunately be remembered for a disastrous run as a high ranking New York City Police official that started in the mid 1980’s. 

As “Commandant”, of the Police Academy, Gaynes was at the center of a controversial program, designed by the city’s first female mayor, to increase police recruitment by lowering academy entrance standards.

While some may say the experiment was bold in nature, few dispute its failure.  Tasked with the unenviable position of implementing the program, Gaynes struggled to maintain discipline within the Academy from the beginning, and his tenure was marked by scandal after scandal. 

A city-wide riot, many say actually caused by a careless and clearly under-trained police cadet, lead to near disaster as criminals brazenly held police as hostages at gun point with their own weapons before being overtaken.  Any chance of goodwill being generated by the relatively safe outcome of the riot however was short-lived when it was revealed at the Academy’s graduation ceremony, a well-known prostitute was hired to sit under a podium and perform oral sex on a cadet who was giving a speech at the event. 

George Gaynes is survived by a wife, daughter, granddaughter and two great grand children. 
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What Sucks…The Reaper

March 22, 2017, 9:14 am
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My favorite episode of The Gong Show is the one where every single contestant who comes out, sings “Feelings”.   Of course, the great Chuck Barris acts as if he has no idea what’s going on. After the first two contestants perform, Chuck pledges to get to the bottom of this confusion, and apologizes for the mix up, only to bring out the next guest who, of course sings “Feelings”. 

The audience growing restless at this point, Chuck assures them he’ll get this straightened out, before bringing out the next contestant who sings “Feelings”.  And so on and so forth until the hilarious ½ hour was up.  What a great show and a great character. 

Living to 87 is no short change, so RIP to the great Chuck Barris.   
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