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It's funny but I think what he's pointing out is that it's pretty easy to write a funny parody of a straw man argument.

Which is what Atlas Shrugged is, arguably.

Yeah, but it takes itself seriously. A parody straw man argument doesn't make you think, and that's an essential for good comedy.

I read a very good parody of Atlas a while ago. It didn't take words from Rand and mash them up (like this does) - it does a good job of emulating her style while criticizing her ideas. This one's less clever than that, which is a shame.

This one reads like it was written by someone who got through the first 50 pages of Atlas Shrugged, read the cliffs notes, got a D on a paper, and has resented the style and the ideas ever since.

I agree. But it is also funny.

Link or more info to that work, please!

This is the one I found really funny. It's still not brilliant, but it's good: http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~wilson/aynrand.pdf

The man nodded. His nod seemed to reject the possibility of objective thought.

I also like this one, even though it's not nearly as good. http://www.spudworks.com/article/66/2/

The spudworks synopsis was okay, but I like this one better: http://boston.conman.org/2001/10/23.1

That was great. Not as well-written as the first PDF, but damn was it accurate.

Could you elaborate on this?

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