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Funny story: Mystery of what Henry Moore "Jay Lo" sculptures are is solved by Optician

Mystery of what Henry Moore "Jay Lo" sculptures are is solved by Optician

The huge sculptures in Leeds resembling pregnant nude women with enormous bottoms are the result of the notoriously incomprehensible sculptor not being fitted with the correct spectacles, a spokesperson for Specsavers claimed this morning. "...

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Funny story: Australian Culture Gurus on fact finding tour of La Gambia

Australian Culture Gurus on fact finding tour of La Gambia

Australia, keen to lose its Barbecue and Beers image has assembled a cultural fact finding team to "find out what this culture lark is". The team will visit selected countries with what it imagines to have a more impressive global Intellectual pr...

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Funny story: Armed Police mistake colour chart for missing Damien Horst colour spot painting

Armed Police mistake colour chart for missing Damien Horst colour spot painting

Armed art trained police swooped on a decorators van in Notting Hill this morning. Mr. C. Mycrack told our reporter, "I had this Crown Paints gloss colour chart in the back of my van, its just a kind of large sheet of coloured circles that my custome...

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Funny story: Spanish Cathedral tops WTF list

Spanish Cathedral tops WTF list

The hideous Antoni Gaudi unfinished Cathedral mess in Barcelona has topped the Mobile Device What The Fuck list 2013. The "Cathedral" which looks like someone has put a blowtorch to the Magic Kingdom Fairy Castle in EuroDisney is basically a surre...

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Funny story: Chimp Wins Art Contest, Hires Lawyer

Chimp Wins Art Contest, Hires Lawyer

No sooner was it announced that Brent, a 37-year-old Louisiana chimp, had won first prize in a chimpanzee art contest (read about it here on TheGuardian.com website) than the chimp called a lawyer to complain that the sanctuary where he lived would b...

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Funny story: Identity of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Confirmed As Roseanne, His Gymboree Teacher

Identity of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Confirmed As Roseanne, His Gymboree Teacher

Scientists in Florence, Italy, have confirmed the identity of Leonardo Da Vinci's model for his Mona Lisa painting, after centuries of speculation. Extensive DNA testing of an exhumed body, computer modeling, and meticulous employment records from...

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Funny story: Erotic art

Erotic art

Erotic art is an excuse, in the form of sketches, paintings, sculptures, and other media, to show naked people, many of whom are depicted as engaging in "erotic" (a codeword for sexual) activities. Although some people try to distinguish between erotic art and pornography, no argument for such a distinction has ever been generally accepted, and most people agree that one person's erotic art is ano...

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Funny story: Comic Books: Literacy for the Illiterate

Comic Books: Literacy for the Illiterate

A comic book is a magazine, rarely a book, printed on cheap newsprint or toilet tissue, which is rarely funny, or "comic," so it should be renamed, but those in the industry are lazy, preferring to draw poorly executed pictures that illustrate barely literate narratives (stories) in bold and fancy fonts. Due to the imbecilic level of their "reader's" intelligence and literacy, these magazines a...

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Funny story: Giger gay bar to open in Castro District

Giger gay bar to open in Castro District

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - At the invitation of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, her "good friend," artist H. R. Giger has agreed to license his artwork for use in another of his series of so-called "Giger Gay Bars." If the bar does well, Pelosi...

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Funny story: Bare-breasted portrait of Michelle Obama not "artsy fartsy"

Bare-breasted portrait of Michelle Obama not "artsy fartsy"

MADRID, SPAIN - According to Jessica Wakeman, whoever the hell she is, a portrait of Michelle Obama topless is not art; in fact, it is not even "artsy fartsy." The portrait appeared on the cover of the Spanish magazine Clutch, which often shows fema...

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Funny story: Banksy unveils art installation made of his own shit

Banksy unveils art installation made of his own shit

Controversial street artist Banksy has unveiled an 8ft wall painting of a masturbating baby made entirely of his own shit. The piece entitled "Waaaaa Waaaaa Wanky" which is the first of seven excrement-based pieces Banksy intends to produce; will...

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Funny story: FBI reckons art heist is more 'Ship of Fools' than Rembrandt's 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee'

FBI reckons art heist is more 'Ship of Fools' than Rembrandt's 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee'

Boston - Federal agents investigating a $500 million international art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are poised to bust a renegade ex-Mossad money laundering ring following a successful trip to Israel on the back of US Airforce One t...

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Funny story: Banksy Art Removal Sparks Black Market For 'Wall Art'

Banksy Art Removal Sparks Black Market For 'Wall Art'

Following the recent mysterious removal and attempted sale of Banksy's street art, a new black market has quickly emerged for the wall plaster behind other valuable artwork. Earlier this week, a London art gallery was broken into and the plaster b...

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Funny story: Emin makes art work for Middleton

Emin makes art work for Middleton

Former Turner Prize nominee and artistic turncoat Tracy Emin has been commissioned to produce a new piece of work by Royal hanger on and professional shopper Pippa Middleton. The work will another neon piece in the style of Bruce Nauman and will...

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Funny story: Exciting new Graphene Art developed

Exciting new Graphene Art developed

For the last few years, scientists have been exploring the properties and possible uses of graphene, the new wonder material made of an atom-thick layer of carbon. It promises to herald a revolution in materials and electronics development. Howev...

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Funny story: Bristol Man Hot Favourite for Turner Prize

Bristol Man Hot Favourite for Turner Prize

Controversial artist Miles Taipan is thought to be hot favourite for next years Turner Prize. Miles' last 'piece' for which he shat upon one of the lions in Trafalgar Square went viral on Utube and made headlines around the world. The actual excrement was gathered up by his curator and sold on Ebay. His proposed piece for next year's Turner threatens to be just as controversial. Some critics consi...

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Funny story: Mars Gallery Gets Off Ground

Mars Gallery Gets Off Ground

NASA - In a surprise announcement today NASA revealed a secret mission assigned to Curiosity Rover - a mission of goodwill and cultural sharing intended for the solar system, the galaxy and the universe that will last a thousand years. A spokesman fo...

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