Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts

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

Monday, January 20, 2014

Wrecking Ball

I don't know if Ron Jeremy's cover of wrecking ball constitutes horror any more than Miley Cyrus' ever present tongue, but...
wahtever

Monday, November 18, 2013

Sometimes Horror Doesn't Sell

Sammy Davis Jr, Christophr Lee, Adam West, Jack Klugman in a TV show about a bungling demon's crazy antics. How could it go wrong?
Unfortunately Poor Devil never made it past a pilot in 1973.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

OMG!!

This overly dramatic robo call cracked me up. the fact that it came 2 weeks after their deadline made it all the better.
Oh well, like I always say, Horror Sells

Thursday, May 02, 2013

One Eyed Monster
This movie is actually kinda funny. A lot of potty/sex humor - no porn, dumb jokes and Ron Jeremy's alien possessed dick (minus Ron) on a rampage make for a pretty silly flick. Probably best viewed while intoxicated.
In Amazons Best selling Movies & TV it's ranked #68,356. How bad could it be?
With Charles Napier, Veronica Hart & Ron Jeremy

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Doppelganger
Devil Doll meets Lars…..