Comments | mrs_ajax: That is crazy food, you monster!

mrs_ajax

That is crazy food, you monster!

Aug 18, 2008 17:58

Who do you think you are? Soft as tissue. That is definitely the thing.
Think of me after i leave and i promise that i will think of you.
"This is the first time in my life when my plans extend past my thirtieth birthday." I hear you brother, and i am only a little bit shorter, though with plugged ears.

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fiatlouis August 19 2008, 04:54:03 UTC

Good lord, Norm McDonald is unfunny. I mean, he's parodying himself, telling the least funny jokes he can think of, and staring at the audience until they laugh in discomfort. I made it through about 1:45 of that clip before my ears started bleeding.

mrs_ajax August 19 2008, 06:05:50 UTC

Man, he's making fun of the roast as an idea, as a function. He is so good at wrecking comedy, which i think he is doing here. If you got through 1:45 of it, you probably saw that one about how Cloris Leachman couldn't get over the hill in the car she drives. See, the thing is that it is not actually a joke in the traditional sense, that is, there is no punchline. In the beginning he is taking phrases super-literally ("getting over the hill," "swinging," etc.). Later he makes fun of the subjective element of humor by saying that Sagat's hairy chest is not the only way that he resembles Rin Tin Tin. (long pause) "He's got a fucking dog-face, how do you not get that?" implying that somehow a joke's got an objective interpretation.
I would pay to see someone murder comedy this well in a movie. If only that were possible.

fiatlouis August 20 2008, 05:56:57 UTC

See, what you think of as some sort of criticism of comedy roasts, I see as blatantly unfunny. I don't really care if it was some sort of brilliant meta critique, because it was just not entertaining. I didn't watch the clip so I could learn about deconstructionism or something. I wanted him to be funny. This is why you and I watch film and TV differently. And yet you like "Dirty Work". . .

mrs_ajax August 20 2008, 17:24:39 UTC

This is the subjective aspect of comedy, no? So it would probably be better for both of us to say along the lines of: "I do (not) find it entertaining."

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gbrmonkey August 19 2008, 08:18:08 UTC

I'm not sure if it was anything more than

gbrmonkey August 19 2008, 08:21:34 UTC

Nevermind the drunk in my system... I'm not sure it was more than a fantastic in-joke to the other people on the dais with no mind to the people past it. Which is great in its own right.

mrs_ajax August 19 2008, 14:46:04 UTC

I think though that that in-joke stems mostly from the fact that almost no one thinks about comedy except comedians. Even if there are jokes that i'm missing that are Sagat or Stamos specific, there's plenty there for me to enjoy. All of which i think goes to support my contention that he is attempting to undermine the objectivity of joke-telling.