First of all, there is a website to combat liberal bias? Is that because Tracy Morgan is able to find the humor in the fact that this country isn’t as racism-free as it likes to think?
Meh whatever. The kinda of a-hole that needs to contribute to a site like that just promotes the fact that controlling the media is more important than the issues.
They warn their readers that the following quote from Tina Fey on SNL a few weeks earlier contains sacrilege:
And maybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch. And let me say something about that: yeah, she is, and so am I. And so is this one (pointing at Amy Poehler). And you know what, bitches get stuff done. That’s why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests. Those nuns are mean old clams, and they sleep on cots and are allowed to hit you. And at the end of the school year, you hated those bitches, but you knew the capital of Vermont. So, I’m saying it’s not too late Texas and Ohio. Get on board. Bitch is the new black!
Is that not conservative bias toward Jesus-y stuff? Or perhaps prejudice toward the truth leaking out through comedy? Anyway, professional comedians sometimes use an old literary chestnut called “hyperbole,” I’m sure non ALL nuns are psychos. Sorry if you don’t have a sense of humor or a world view based on real life, and don’t tell me “mean old clams” isn’t an awesome phrase.
NEW YORK – A prominent politician, especially one known for a certain righteousness, is alleged to be a customer of high-priced call girls. For comics, that’s a hanging curveball over the plate.
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Spitzer, accused of being the prostitution ring’s so-called Client 9, was Topic 1 again with late-night comics Tuesday. “Not surprisingly, clients 1 through 8 were Charlie Sheen,” NBC’s “Late Night” host Conan O’Brien cracked.
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[Comics] wondered whether the story would last long enough for [them] to make it a big part of their act and whether Spitzer is known well enough throughout the country.
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For the second day in a row, Spitzer was the topic of Letterman’s top-10 list.
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No. 1: “It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks. I’m no longer America’s creepiest governor.”
weird thing is that comedy would be dead without bullshit in the world, so …. thanks for bullshit (?)
Mike Myers and Deepak Chopra were on the Sundance Channel’s program Iconoclasts recently. It was basically a fusion/comparison of comedy and spirituality, which was pretty illuminating.
Here’s stuff Mike Myers said, or that he said other people said. I felt this was worth logging just because these types of utterances are such rare gems:
“Lenny Bruce defined comedy as pain plus time.”
“Rob Reiner said comedy is when you fall into a pit and are impaled by a spike, and tragedy is when I stub my toe.”
“Haha and a-ha! are related industries.”
“It’s like most comedians, I want to be the architect of my own embarrassment. I will slip on that banana peel, thank you very much. I will drop my pants to my ankles, thank you very much.”
Jerry Seinfeld on the Deiter character: “You’ve managed to break all the rules of American parody, you’ve parodied something that nobody knows”
“My hope for what I do is not quite like progressive rock and it’s not quite I’ve suffered for my art and now it’s your turn. But there is just a little bit like I would like to do comedy where it did not exist before.”
It is amazing to have this insider look at comedy. It’s very meta. I don’t know if Mike Meyers would be who he was if he had all this “behind the laughter / behind the music / the making of / DVD extras” type of stuff available to him while he was developing his art. Nowadays there’s a SHITload, including another one to checkout, History of the Joke hosted by Lewis Black.
When you are actually amidst the act of creation, I don’t think it’s possible or even beneficial to actually be thinking of any of those things. You have to just let that kind of stuff sink in by giving it time, but just empty your head of any of it when you are live.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Dave Chappelle has broken his own Laugh Factory endurance record.
The 34-year-old comedian topped his record of six hours and seven minutes, set in mid-April, by taking to the stage Sunday and telling jokes for six hours and 12 minutes.
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The article says Dane Cook is trying to beat his record. Man, fuck that. Dane Cook isn’t a comedian, he’s a panderer. He tells a joke about an atheist coming back as a tree that turns into a bible. Here it is:
Listen to that piece of shit pre-built christian audience. Southpark addresses this phenomenon when Cartman decides he’s going to beat Kyle at getting a platinum record by starting a Christian rock band because the audience is already there.
Here’s a joke: There was this comedian that couldn’t write any good jokes so God smote him. Ok that was not that great of a joke. That’s why i don’t do it professionally.
Seriously, Dane, why don’t you just start doing slapstick fall-down humor as well? Oh you do. Well, it makes babies laugh. Must be good.
In a show of solidarity with his fellow scribes, the Daily Show host has told his writing staff that he will cover all their salaries for the next two weeks, according to a well-placed source. He has also vowed to do the same for writers on The Colbert Report. A Comedy Central spokesman referred my inquiry about this to Stewart’s personal publicist, who has yet to respond.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — NBC’s audience has embraced Dunder-Mifflin, the dysfunctional company from “The Office” where quirky workers flail about weekly. But is it ready for Miller Shanks?
NBC and Omnicom Group’s Full Circle Entertainment plan a comedic summer series based on “E,” the wickedly humorous Matt Beaumont novel that relies on a string of e-mail to tell the tale of a fictional London ad firm and its efforts to capture a vaunted Coca-Cola account.
There is so much cool art out there by so many unknown underground snarling sparkling artists, I keep this thing as a sort of inspiration diary of all the amazing creative noise going on off the mainstream. Visit my artfolio at http://rishisatsangi.com.
