Vid: The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones
The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones [at AO3, embedded]
PG13, 20MB, 2:46
Source: Slings & Arrows (all 3 seasons, no major spoilers)
Music: Allstar by Smashmouth
Enormous huge megathanks to sdwolfpup and gnatkip who are (all)star quality betas!
( Lyrics )
PG13, 20MB, 2:46
Source: Slings & Arrows (all 3 seasons, no major spoilers)
Music: Allstar by Smashmouth
Enormous huge megathanks to sdwolfpup and gnatkip who are (all)star quality betas!
( Lyrics )
I love how it opens with him all despondent in bed and takes you through his hapless, bumbling life until he's risen to the top at the end. And I kind of love that the way you have it, we go from standing O to the cast clapping him to him clapping himself. It's kind of, oh, Richard, don't look down.
EXACTLY EXACTLY. I was worried about the subtlety of the implication of him clapping himself, but YAY YOU GET IT! YOU GET IT! I am just so, so delighted that you mentioned this, because as you describe the arc is exactly how I intended it, his rise on his own hot air, as it were. :-)
And the bits you pick out are some of my favorites. As I said to Zulu, the lyrics go so well in a kind of obliquely literal way with each season, with Sanjay and so on. That one shot where he folds down the newspaper and you see Anna's priceless expression - that is my favorite clip in the entire SHOW, probably.
Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. It makes me feel all warm and glowy.
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