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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: erika on November 07, 2007, 07:51:26 AM
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First, I'd like to apologize for my normally decent cell phone crapping out on me last night. I've used that cell phone for every BS call I've made, but clearly it decided it was done with me on that particular call.
Also, I wanted to clarify my question a little bit since I went to garbled gibberish before I could finish:
I wasn't actually going to talk about the difference in style between SNL and Human Giant. What I was going to say was that, in addition to those two shows, and a few that HBO have "in the hopper", there isn't much happening with sketch comedy on TV. (I'm not even counting MadTV because it sucks)
Did anyone think [or hope] like me, that maybe MTV picking up a show like Human Giant might mark a comeback for sketch comedy -- a-la the days when we saw Mr. Show, The State and Kids in the Hall running strong for most of a decade?
I've just been waiting for MTV to go back to some of the comedy it always did, and for HBO to pick up another brilliant sketch show (which it hasn't done since Mr. Show) but it hasn't happened yet. When I saw how much attention MTV was giving Human Giant, I REALLY thought we might see a turn in the trend that only gives younger viewers idiots like Dane Cook and Larry the Cable Guy to laugh at.
BUt nothing's really changed yet... I was hoping Fred might have some behind-the-scenes news or maybe just a "feeling" that Sketch Comedy, or at least GOOD Comedy on TV might be making a stronger comeback.
Not saying there isn't a lot of good stuff out there, but MTV and HBO have fallen far behind on their idea of what's funny. (LCK and Human Giant excluded) I'm a TV lover. Not a whiner.
I'm tired. Sorry if this makes no sense...
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Actually, I got that you were asking about the current state of sketch comedy, but I had the luxury of listening at home in front of the computer. I didn't have Fred staring at me with pleading eyes, nor did I have to face the Kid on the air live and I definitely wasn't being heckled by Petra Haden.
But yeah, I got it.
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I hope slapstick makes a comeback too.
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Jason I read that wrong and thought you were being dirty for a second.
Shame on me. (still tired!)
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P. Haden better watch out, or she might end up wearing a Jackson Pollock for a necktie - permanently.
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P. Haden better watch out, or she might end up wearing a Jackson Pollock for a necktie - permanently.
Huh?
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P. Haden better watch out, or she might end up wearing a Jackson Pollock for a necktie - permanently.
Huh?
You don't make snotty comments about a woman whose dad has cornered the East Coast art market for generations.
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P. Haden better watch out, or she might end up wearing a Jackson Pollock for a necktie - permanently.
Huh?
You don't make snotty comments about a woman whose dad has cornered the East Coast art market for generations.
Actually, my dad is not Don Rubell.
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Oh ok. I thought that was kind of a random comment.
Apparently I'm too much of a comedy nerd for this group...
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Oh ok. I thought that was kind of a random comment.
Apparently I'm too much of a comedy nerd for this group...
I just assume that 90% of what I'm writing is only amusing to me, though I may be overestimating myself.
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P. Haden better watch out, or Laurie's gonna turn this Jackson Pollock into a car wash.
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You don't make snotty comments about the woman who plays violin for Green Day.
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Let me guess: that ends, "She makes snotty comments about you"?
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You don't make snotty comments about the woman who plays violin for Green Day.
Ooh boy. So she's the reason Green Day hasn't put out a good album in over a decade?
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I did think it was just a TAD rude that she was talking to Fred and Tom while they were on the air. I mean, can she really be that self-important? They're on the freakin radio!
I mean, c'mon!
But in her defense, there are probably a lot of reasons why Green Day hasn't put out a good album in over a decade. They were done long ago, violin or no violin.
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You don't make snotty comments about the woman who plays violin for Green Day.
Ooh boy. So she's the reason Green Day hasn't put out a good album in over a decade?
I lay the blame at the feet of the little person who plays the oboe for them.
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Slapstick is my brother.
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Slapstick is my brother.
good quip, sir