It’s like I’m always finding excuses to blog less around here. Is it because the current race has caused me to lose my sense of humor about our democratic process?
Partly. I have to say that the media’s ability to microfocus on things that aren’t important to us (am I wright?) and not skewer things that are genuinely bad for us (maybe I need a “gas tax holiday”) has made it… well, I’m just glad that I’m getting a hiatus from funny.
No, but seriously, remember that black-and-white video I’ve posted on this site a few times? The one that looks like an old-timey talk show? Yes, that one.
Well, you didn’t hear it from me (though, clearly, you did), but I just may be making a “presentation pilot” of it for a major basic cable network… and I just may be in it as well, as the bandleader. Maybe. Could be. And we might be taping said hypothetical pilot in two weeks time.
This is all speculative, of course.
But it’s possible.
That’s all I’m saying.
Fanny Roborat
41 comments
Chris Harlan
May 4, 2008 at 11:40 pm
1ROTFL! Pretty bleeping funny! Now, that’s modern art! And it tastes like Betty Davis!
P.W. Fenton
May 5, 2008 at 5:07 am
2How long can you sustain the one joke… that these guys were mean, gross, and insensitive? Or is it that you believe viewers WANT to see people be mean and arrogant and self-centered because it validates tendencies they might normally keep hidden?
I think you are a clever and funny guy. This ain’t. This is just two guys guys asking me to laugh at being boorish. And even at only 4 minutes it seemed they were asking for too long.
Sorry, man. I really am a fan. I KNOW you are funnier than that.
Here… I gotta better idea… let’s make a series out of the cavemen from those insurance commercials… but we can’t use anything from the commercials…
Rhea
May 5, 2008 at 5:25 am
3I want to write about Adam Felber on my blog, but I need to know how old he is. Can you please send an answer to mail@thegeminiweb.com
cooper
May 5, 2008 at 9:18 am
4Rhea, how old is Adam? Oh, he’s old. Real old….
Chris Harlan
May 5, 2008 at 10:08 am
5Well, PW, its just one joke in the video. It doesn’t mean the characters can’t be developed into a sharp social satire. And the level of mania is one note, because that is part of the joke of the short. And these guys are objects of satire, not to be venerated or emulated. Arrogance and self-centeredness are mainstays of comedy not because we laud them as attributes, but because we revile them, at least in others.
Right now, they’re just blunt force; the Rat Pack as tormentors in hell. They need contrast. And constraint. They need foils. There are all kinds of things you can do with these characters–work for them, try to reign them in, try to get them off the air, be forced to hire them. But I think they have a raw dynamic that would interesting to play with. As of now, they’re a skit, with some spit an polish, they might be something else. You might not find ‘em funny, but I laughed.
Chris Harlan
May 5, 2008 at 10:37 am
6Oh, and WWDTM was truly funny, particularly around Florida’s sanity checkbox. Opt in for sanity? Couldn’t stop laughing.
Adam Felber
May 5, 2008 at 6:01 pm
7I have to say that Chris nailed it: Not only will these guys be a LOT less mean on the show, the project will inhabit a bigger, more interesting world than these clips indicate. These clips, after all, are from a sketch produced for a larger late-nigh/sketch show. As P.W. pointed out, this is one-joke, as befits sketches…
The show around them will be something different. Stay tuned, and keep those fingers crossed, if you’re a fingertarian.
David
May 5, 2008 at 6:12 pm
8I’m here to tell you the Republican state legislature of Florida is now clearly nucking futs-er than the Texas leg. Molly Ivins, wish you were here for the fun and games. It promises to get even goofier. But it’s what happens when a Southern state goes Republican. Gone are ameliorating influences the broad spectrum party provided. We now have a monolithicly moronic state government. Democrats try, Lobster love ‘em, but we’re talking underwhelming minority versus overwhelming majority. To give credit where credit is due, there is one Republican woman in the state senate who still has the sense God gave her, and one Republican male senator who has flashes of insight. Neither has any influence. The governor seemed to be a Republican with an understanding of the ecological crisis facing the planet, but when push comes to shove, the Republican machine has him, and his ever-inflating national aspirations, by the short curlies. A McCain-Schwarzenegger-Crist ecoshperic brain trust will be still born. McCain’s brain is dysfunctional, Schwarzenegger’s ‘nads have shriveled, and Crist’s centrist center is atrophying.
Hasta la vista, Republican triumvirate.
gillian
May 5, 2008 at 6:44 pm
9Time for the Tom Tomorrow Monday evening comedy dump.
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/05/06/tomo/
I went outside today without a parka!!! Spring is right around the corner now. Next week we start the vegetable garden!
David, “Schwarzenegger’s ‘nads have shriveled”? Must be all the steroids. You think?
SallyMutant
May 5, 2008 at 7:40 pm
10If people still sent telegrams; thus had to keep it brief:
From Rhea
Need for research, urgent STOP How old Adam Felber?
Smartalec reply
Old Adam Felber fine STOP How you?
Totally stolen from the ancecdote about the great Cary Grant; an anecdote too good not to adapt when Rhea hands us the framework for it on a silver platter.
Welcome to FanAp Rhea. Now I’ll STOP
dee
May 6, 2008 at 4:36 am
11I voted! I voted! And now that I’ve voted, the rest of you can just stop all this nonsense and let it end today.
cooper
May 6, 2008 at 5:09 am
12My, dee. Aren’t we organized and efficient? I’ll be giving up my lunch hour today to do my civil duty. (Go!! O!!) May this country take a turn for the better.
Dave von Ebers
May 6, 2008 at 6:16 am
13Adam, I still love the Cutty Sark line.
If that doesn’t earn you a pilot, there is no justice.
hedera
May 6, 2008 at 3:38 pm
14I’m with P.W. Fenton, Adam - the show had BETTER be better than that, because as that clip stands, I’d pay to be allowed to turn it off. I cut it off after the monkey episode. That sort of humor is one of the reasons I quit watching television, and one of the reasons (frankly) that I don’t much care for standup.
When you watch a television show, you spend a certain amount of your time with the people in the show; same as when you read a book, you spend time with the characters. I wouldn’t spend 3 minutes with those guys; if I found myself in the same bar with them, I’d find another bar.
You can do better than that. At your best you can do orders of magnitude better than that; you can do really great satire. That isn’t satire. That’s just gross. For your sake, I hope Chris is right about it.
Ann
May 6, 2008 at 3:56 pm
15Thanks for the link, Gillian. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the image of Isabella Rossellini’s bleeding to death from the loss of her penis.
Ann
May 6, 2008 at 3:56 pm
16Was it the p word?
David
May 6, 2008 at 4:08 pm
17That, gillian, and the fact that when he arrived he concluded the Republican Party was a good idea and the Democratic Party was a bad idea. Wondering about the ‘nad/frontal lobe link in Ah-nold, who seems to think girlie-man is a useful descriptor, and that John McCain is the right person for the White House. Well, he is right, and drifting ever farther into that wasteland of neocon intellectual/political bankruptcy.
Which p word, Ann? There are so many. The word association for Bush/Cheney is pustule, of course.
hedera
May 6, 2008 at 4:10 pm
18It was just the whole thing.
Keep in mind, though, that as a rule, anything I really like is canceled or discontinued almost immediately, while things I can’t stand go on forever; so maybe the fact that it makes my skin crawl is a positive marketing indicator…
Murray
May 6, 2008 at 5:37 pm
19Way to go NC!
I tried here in PA.
On to Puerto Rico.
Dee
May 6, 2008 at 6:20 pm
20Thank you, thank you. We here in NC did our part. And we waited our turn to do it. Are you listening, Michigan and Florida???????
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May 6, 2008 at 6:57 pm
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Ann
May 6, 2008 at 8:25 pm
22For the first time in my FanAp experience, Fannie ate my comment. The p word was a fairly polite word for the male apparatus, and my comment (which will show up eventually, right?) was basically this:
Thanks for the link, Gillian. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the image of Isabella Rossellini’s bleeding to death from the loss of her that word.
siobhan
May 7, 2008 at 1:25 pm
23Cooper, don’t you know Harry Taylor? Happy to hear that he won.
cooper
May 7, 2008 at 3:05 pm
24siobhan, you heard about Harry’s win all the way across the country? Whoa, those news channels really do have to fill all that air time with whatever comes along, I guess. But, yes he did indeed win the primary! Now he needs to win in November against Sue Myrick - the born again, chain smoking, mean spirited, immigrant bashing, prayer breakfast devotee.
David
May 7, 2008 at 4:57 pm
25As I understand it, cooper, those are Sue Myrick’s best traits. And definitely WAY TO GO, NORTH CAROLINA!
Dee, all I can say is Floridians apparently listen to their Rice Krispies these days. We used to find our way to political sanity from time to time, but that ended with Jeb and the theft of Florida’s electoral votes in 2000. And the theft had to occur because the systematic disenfranchisement of Democratic voters still wasn’t enough. It took a sadistic god playing with the Broward County ballots and a Supreme Court whose majority apparently also thought the Constitutions of the US and Florida were just “goddamned pieces of paper.”
Anyway, Barack Hussein Obama will be #44 unless we are treated to another banana republican fiasco.
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Of course the real corker was when Hillary - I was for being a Goldwater Republican before I was against it - Clinton glommed onto the concept and ran with it. I heard she was going to throw in a free car wash and lube job, but Mark Penn nixed that the day before he was fired. Obama, strangely, didn’t think it was such a great idea and immediately spoke out against it. I bet he had darn few friends when he was growing up.
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