July 2009
66 posts
“People ask, and comedy writers especially ask, “How come the show isn’t better?” I look at SNL as a sporting match, and the question is: “How come the game isn’t better?” The contest is: You take this cast, they’re the team, and they compete each week against not being funny. And every time they’re funny they score a point. So every week you’re watching to see if they score a few points. And if they score, like, three goddamn points, they fucking won, you know? But it’s a shame that it’s set up as nothing but this contest, because I think the preparation could be overseen better, and the show could do more than just score a point or two each week. That’s my grand theory of SNL…. But I would add that after years of watching, never directly, just out of the corner of my eye, I’ve concluded that I might be wrong and Lorne [Michaels] might have it exactly right. But we’ll never find out, will we? Sorry, world.”
—Bob Odenkirk (from his interview with Robert Smigel in the May 2009 issue of The Believer) (via erockappel)
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“I have an idea: How about Holacoste? Like the Holocaust and Lacoste. Polo shirts with aligators and swastikas. I’m too afraid to blog this, who wants it? Drew, it’s yours.”
—Darren Miller, after viewing this picture.
Heading to Cleveland for a few days...
I’ll explain why when I get back.
“I caught a plane out to Cleveland late last evening
To help my niggas clean up some niggas no longer breathing”
Tupac Shakur - Thug Love
For the Record
I’m always at my job and always bored.
Send me a message on instant messenger: Beef Tacoes
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Two Things That Just Happened
A group of Germans came up to me on 42nd street.
German Dude: Excuse me, where do I find Madam Tousad?
Me: Walk to the middle of this block and look for Morgan Freeman on the other side walk.
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Over heard at Burger King
Obese Black Woman eating a huge Wopper: You know what’d be great right now? Wendy’s. I love Wendys.
To Julia Segal
The post has since been deleted but someone complained about a pretty tame holocaust drawing on Jewish Comedianne Julia Segal’s blog, which is dedicated to finding the weird/outrageous/funny pictures circulating the interwebz.
When I worked at The Onion there was a wall of hate mail and the biggest reoccurring complaint was “I usually laugh at your jokes, but making fun of _ is too far.” Sure, it’s okay to make fun of anything and everything that doesn’t have to do with me, but hit a subject that is close to heart for me and I AM OFFENDED!!! BLURRAGGH!!! That’s called discrimination.
When Isaac Hayes quit South Park because they insulted Scientology, his own religion, Trey Parker said “[We] never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we [lampooned] Scientology. He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.”
I am also a Jewish comedian (who isn’t these days) and I am also well aware of the stigma of Holocaust jokes. Yes, they are tacky, overdone, and just plain unfunny half the time, but if you don’t go out of your way to stop jokes about other injustices then you aren’t a savior for political correctness, you’re just perusing your own interests. There is no scale for taboo; if you chose to laugh at homophobic jokes and not slavery because it’s more severe in your eyes then you belittle the LBGT community to serve your sense of morality.
Don’t like it? Don’t follow her. I know I’m taking this way too far but I still stand my ground. Pick your battles, don’t censor others, and learn to laugh.
Film kids or not
If you could go back in time and work on any tv show what would it be and what would you do?
I’d love to write and do voices on Freakazoid, how about you?
I just smoked PCP for the first time
disapponting.
Too drunk to do this right. Who else has been to jail? Be honest.
