Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Humor in Disaster
As I have mentioned before, Horror Sells. Well, there's also humor in disaster. Heck, that's basically the whole idea behind slapstick. Take laurel & Hardy or the Three Stoofes, their pain & suffering was hilarious. In the past we enjoyed the humor of war. Hilarious romps in the South Pacific WWII in McHale's Navy, the raascally shenanigans Nazi POWs had in Hogan's Heroes, thie hyjinks of the Korean War in MASH, Viet Nam in Catch 22.
There's even more fun in apocalypse movies like This is the End & Shaun of the Dead.
Who can't forget the Cold War laugh riot, Dr Strangelove? The futuristic dark slapstick of Sleeper?
OK, so why the uproar about a comedy set in the Irish Potato Famine?
Monty Python set all sorts of humor against the backdrop of medieval poverty & desperation, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery & whatnot. What's changed?
Is it the rise of mamby pambyism or is it just plummeting self confidence fueled by 'liberal' self hatred?
Thursday, July 31, 2014
An Open Letter to Woody Allen
Woody, dude, I got an idea for ya.
A comedy biography of The Blood Countess, Erzsebet Bathory.
I'm tellin' ya, it would be a laugh riot as people try to accept & rationalize the lady gradually falling into violent, blood thirsty madness.
It'd be a hoot.
yer pal, Quimbob
A comedy biography of The Blood Countess, Erzsebet Bathory.
I'm tellin' ya, it would be a laugh riot as people try to accept & rationalize the lady gradually falling into violent, blood thirsty madness.
It'd be a hoot.
yer pal, Quimbob
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Wrecking Ball
wahtever
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sometimes Horror Doesn't Sell
Unfortunately Poor Devil never made it past a pilot in 1973.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
OMG!!
Oh well, like I always say, Horror Sells
Thursday, May 02, 2013
In Amazons Best selling Movies & TV it's ranked #68,356. How bad could it be?
With Charles Napier, Veronica Hart & Ron Jeremy
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