You know how liberals always have to go to great pains to explain to conservative morons that they're not trying to take away their guns? Well, I'm not one of those liberals - I want to take away all of the guns. All of them. You want to go hunting? Use a bow and arrow like a man, pussies.
Saturday, 4 May 2013
A Well Regulated Militia
Posted on 09:31 by jona
You know how liberals always have to go to great pains to explain to conservative morons that they're not trying to take away their guns? Well, I'm not one of those liberals - I want to take away all of the guns. All of them. You want to go hunting? Use a bow and arrow like a man, pussies.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
WHAT?!
Posted on 19:51 by jona
Sorry, lots of reading today. But this just blew my mind.
Apparently, there's an earthquake warning system that works, and Japan has it and uses it. It can provide up to 60 seconds of warning time. It was invented at Cal-Tech, but California isn't interested.
Madness! It would be like Florida and Louisiana saying "thanks, but no thanks" on buying a Doppler 5000.
Apparently, there's an earthquake warning system that works, and Japan has it and uses it. It can provide up to 60 seconds of warning time. It was invented at Cal-Tech, but California isn't interested.
Madness! It would be like Florida and Louisiana saying "thanks, but no thanks" on buying a Doppler 5000.
Shane Black
Posted on 14:42 by jona
Remember when I wrote all of that stuff about Shane Black a few days ago? Well, Vulture wrote stuff about him that actually has examples.
Oral History of The Hangover
Posted on 12:45 by jona
It's Very Stale Inside Amy Schumer
Posted on 00:00 by jona
When you do a pilot, or the very first episode of a brand new series, I would expect that work represents your very best stuff. It should be your funniest, most original material. After all, you don't even know if you're going to get picked up to series, so all your eggs are in this very important basket.
Last night, Comedy Central premiered a new show called "Inside Amy Schumer". I like Amy. She's funny, seems nice, and somewhat normal. She was great on the roasts, and not to compare vaginas to vaginas, but I liked her jokes and her delivery way more than Whitney Cummings.
Whitney somehow parlay 2 roasts into becoming the Executive Producer for 3 DIFFERENT TV SHOWS running simultaneously - "Whitney", "2 Broke Girls", and whatever the hell that E! show was called. And Amy Schumer got...a sketch show on Comedy Central. Nothing makes sense!
Anyway, I was rooting for Amy. And then I watched her show tonight. And it is shocking to me that this could be the premiere episode. Maybe when you're running on fumes in season 3, okay, but this is what you present out of the gate?!
The cold open was about 2 Girls, 1 Cup. You know, the big internet video from...5 years ago. And you're on after Tosh! So the audience is well aware of 2 Girls, 1 Cup and how extremely old it is. Not only is the video old, jokes about the video are old. It's like if, 3 years from now, SNL did a Gangnam Style sketch.
This annoyed me, but I wasn't going to post about it. But it turns out, not only is this sketch extremely dated, it's also been done before (which isn't surprising because the video got so big and was so easy to make fun of).
Here's the sketch on Schumer...
And here is how College Humor did it...
But again, I wasn't going to post about it! This kind of thing happens. Although, they should've known because again, a lot of bits were done about 2 Girls, 1 Cup.
It was upsetting, but whatever. I moved on and kept watching. And that's when this sketch happened...
Well, it just so happens that Mad TV did the exact same sketch, I mean the EXACT SAME SKETCH, only better, 6 years ago.
VIDEO (couldn't embed this one, but you have to watch it to see how similar it is)
Let me be clear: I don't think any of this was stolen. At all. That is completely not the point. This is different. This means instead of crafting a show for Amy Schumer, with Amy Schumer's "voice", you are doing a generic comedy sketch show. Writers are great, but everything needs to come from the stars POV. If you're just doing writer bits, you are going to do things writers from years ago have already done.
But besides that, how does this even happen? You can't stop everything, but 2 bits in your first show? Yikes.
Last night, Comedy Central premiered a new show called "Inside Amy Schumer". I like Amy. She's funny, seems nice, and somewhat normal. She was great on the roasts, and not to compare vaginas to vaginas, but I liked her jokes and her delivery way more than Whitney Cummings.
Whitney somehow parlay 2 roasts into becoming the Executive Producer for 3 DIFFERENT TV SHOWS running simultaneously - "Whitney", "2 Broke Girls", and whatever the hell that E! show was called. And Amy Schumer got...a sketch show on Comedy Central. Nothing makes sense!
Anyway, I was rooting for Amy. And then I watched her show tonight. And it is shocking to me that this could be the premiere episode. Maybe when you're running on fumes in season 3, okay, but this is what you present out of the gate?!
The cold open was about 2 Girls, 1 Cup. You know, the big internet video from...5 years ago. And you're on after Tosh! So the audience is well aware of 2 Girls, 1 Cup and how extremely old it is. Not only is the video old, jokes about the video are old. It's like if, 3 years from now, SNL did a Gangnam Style sketch.
This annoyed me, but I wasn't going to post about it. But it turns out, not only is this sketch extremely dated, it's also been done before (which isn't surprising because the video got so big and was so easy to make fun of).
Here's the sketch on Schumer...
And here is how College Humor did it...
But again, I wasn't going to post about it! This kind of thing happens. Although, they should've known because again, a lot of bits were done about 2 Girls, 1 Cup.
It was upsetting, but whatever. I moved on and kept watching. And that's when this sketch happened...
Well, it just so happens that Mad TV did the exact same sketch, I mean the EXACT SAME SKETCH, only better, 6 years ago.
VIDEO (couldn't embed this one, but you have to watch it to see how similar it is)
Let me be clear: I don't think any of this was stolen. At all. That is completely not the point. This is different. This means instead of crafting a show for Amy Schumer, with Amy Schumer's "voice", you are doing a generic comedy sketch show. Writers are great, but everything needs to come from the stars POV. If you're just doing writer bits, you are going to do things writers from years ago have already done.
But besides that, how does this even happen? You can't stop everything, but 2 bits in your first show? Yikes.
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