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[quote name="mark"]South Park is the logical successor to O'Rourke and Thompson had more humour in his literary toe-nail clippings (see: everything he wrote for ESPN Page 2) than the average O'Rourke Rolling Stone piece. On the scale of funny, he and Hitchens of the 80s were fairly similar. Hitchens clearly realized this and wrote two articles that later appeared in "For the Sake of Argument," one called "PJ O'Rourke: Not Funny Enough" and, later, "Still Not Funny Enough: PJ O'Rourke." Anyway, like Hitchens of the 80s, I think O'Rourke was funny, but not unbelievably so. Hitchen got better and better as a writer (although somewhat less funny) in the early to midish 90s then started his humour decline to now, a point where his Atlantic articles are still usually pretty interesting but dry and his Slate articles are just transcriptions of him screaming at you for not loving the Iraq war. His Vanity Fair article combine the worst of each such that he's tackled both women being genetically unfunny and blowjobs being awesome. Finally, like O'Rourke, he committed the ultimate hilarity boner buster, being in favour of Bush in '04. So I guess PJ won that battle.[/quote]