Hey kids! Can you caption this 'toon for me? I couldn't! Please caption by noting which panel 1-3, you are giving dialogue for. (Panel 1: blah blah blah Panel 2: blah blah blah, etc) I am anxious to see what you crazy people will write! Oh, yeah, I got stuck on the clown thing. I don't know, I think clowns can be funny. Or kinda scary too. I guess it depends on the clown's personality. This isn't a contest, but I would like to see how many captions there could be for this cartoon! Thanks, in advance!
Here's the Flight of the Conchords: I had seen a clip of these guys a while back and meant to put it on. Here are a couple of their clips. I have always liked the combination of music and humor in a comedy act, ever since I was a wee lad watching the Smothers Brothers Show, and other like them.
A song about "sexy time"
Racist Dragon!?
I usually don't like much country music, but this guy - Rodney Carrington-(speaking of musician-comedians) is kinda funny. Ahh...the combination of a purty good sanger croonin' tunes 'bout breasts, farts and other lewd thangs is funny when compared to how "real" country artists sing often inadvertently hilarious songs so seriously! Rodney Carrington-Today's the Day My Wife Met My Girlfriend:
I had seen this group-ImprovEverywhere at http://www.improveverywhere.com/ quite a while back and finally decided to put clip here. ImprovEverywhere is this cool New York City group of street improv comedy people. They go around freaking people out and making them laugh in various public places in NYC.
Having a six year-old son with red hair, this clip resonated with me! Justice for all redheads!
The zombies are a serious threat to homeland security!
Anyway, lots of people have played with this: taking the lovable Charles Schultz-drawn Peanuts cartoon and giving the characters weird dialogue or and basically taking the general tone of the comic and turning it upside down! (poor Mr Schultz is probably rolling in his grave!) Well this feature is about how Peanuts would have looked if written by Charles Bukowski!
Do you all remember Mystery Science Theater 3000? That was one of my favorite shows! When I used to ask other people about the show, they almost always said they either didn't like it, or just didn't get it. Oh well, its an acquired taste I guess. I guess I liked it because that's exactly what we would do when we were teenagers-make fun of corny old films! It was so fun and easy! I guess on a certain level, when Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot screened one of those training type shorts from the '50's, there was a bit of dissecting of that ultra-white bread, staid, idyllic and ultimately fantasy family image along with the comedy. I think these were probably some of their funnier segments!
Hell, I still enjoy doing this type of thing when a cheesy movie is on! Here is one with the boys making mincemeat out of a training film for manners at the dinner table Enjoy!
I always have liked the mixing of magic and comedy. This guy does that mixing very well! The Amazing Jonathan has been around for longer than I thought! Here is a classic clip of him from 1983.
This might be kinda tough with all the controversy about Andy Dick and Jon Lovitz. I have always liked both comedians-maybe Andy a little better because he's I think he's a less one-dimensional, but whatever. If I put my two cents in (what do you all think out there?) I think its a little misguided to blame Andy Dick for Phil Hartman's death. (and for Brynn Hartman's actions and death.) I don't know, but Brynn Hartman was an adult. Yes Dick should not have given her cocaine-(if that's what really happened at the infamous party) and, he has said things he should not have about Lovitz and Hartman-(who I really liked as a comic also) when he was wiped out on drugs or drink. Hey, he has had many issues with alcohol and drugs himself, so maybe his judgement is off.
Anyway, trying to forget this current tension between the two comics, I would like to present a couple of clips of Dick (Geez! The guy's name lends itself to humor doesn't it?!) in parodies of Marilyn Manson.
With all the talk about Michael Vick and cruelty to animals I would like to present a somewhat fitting strange, funny little film created by Dan Piraro about our relationship with animals and who is better suited to be vegans or meat eaters. I know this has nothing to do with dogfighting, but is more about how we treat animals in general. Whatever your feelings about being a vegetarian or meat eater, (I do eat meat, but sometime ago, I tried doing a "variant" of vegetarianism, and lost a lot of weight and felt a lot more healthy than I do now!) this is still a funny little clip! http://www.bizarro.com/videos/mov/VeganVideoWeb.mov
I love David Cross. He's a great comedian (I think) and he gives a great, skewed view of the world. At times he is pretty controversial, (like in this clip-sorry to offend those who are bothered by jokes about religion!) I think that his jokes are smart, literate, and best of all funny! He's way funnier than another comedian whose literate delivery is kind of in the same vein-Dennis Miller! Miller thinks every word out of his mouth is so damn hilarious and of course, he loves to impress people with his witticism and vocabulary. I actually liked him on SNL but now, a lot of times his right-wingedness and pompousness (Google "pompous" and Dennis Miller and you get about 70,000 results!) gets in the way. Here's David
David Letterman recently explored the Transformer Optimus Prime, and showed what a jerk off he was when he was a teen!
I never really liked the band Linkin Park. From the silly misspelled name thing so prevalent in youngster's music today to their formula. This dig at Linkin Park's style is humorously laid out in this parody clip.
Was trying to find another Andy Dick skit but found this Daphne Aguilera thing instead. Pretty funny.
A tree! A tree! (have to say that a few times to let it all sink in!)
There was a security camera photo of the robber with leafy boughs and branches duct-taped around his chest and head area. A local police sergeant was quoted as saying that the robber "...really went out on a limb" (!)
Someone recognized the pinehead from the security photo and James Coldwell, 49, was arrested a short time later. Guess he robbed the wrong branch-get it!? The wrong...uhh oh well!
You can really have fun with this one! Wonder if after some time in jail, he might turn over a new leaf? I might just be barking up the wrong tree here. Ok. I'll stop, but here are some comics about Mr. Sprucehead!