Monsieur_LeBehemoth (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mrbehemoth) wrote,@ 2008-04-14 19:58:00 |
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...no I forget
What is the deal with "comedy legends"? It seems there are two kinds of comedy legend: the kind who is good at comedy, and the kind that is really, really, crap. There seem to have been a number of comedy legends who were something There's an old Warner Brothers cartoon that parodies Henny Youngman, depicting him as a giant chicken. Old Warner Brothers cartoons had a very distinctive style; sort of creepy, heavy on the banjo-playing cows, and often featuring parodies of popular 1930s celebrities so that modern audiences don't get the jokes. It'd be like if 1930s people could see cartoons today about Lindsay Lohan and Rainn Wilson. In fact it'd be worse, because at least we can look up the celebrities in old cartoons. There was no IMDB back in the 1930s, and even if there had been, it wouldn't have been a future-IMDB that provided details of movie stars from early next century. For people back then to understand our satiricial cartoons, they would need to have newspapers like those depicted in the television series "Early Edition" starring Kyle Chandler and Fisher Stevens, where a newspaper from the future is delivered each morning by a mysterious cat. But then it'd be like, hey, did you hear what Britney did?
Who's Britney?
Don't you read the future paper?
I don't get the future paper, I had to kill my cat at a Henny Youngman show.
Hey, did you see that cartoon about Henny Youngman?
Yes, this truly is a golden age for comedy.
Yeah. And poverty.
I'll say, I'm so poor I had to kill my cat for food.
There's a strange inconsistency in your story.
There's a strange inconsistency in your FACE, bitch!
Yeah, people in the 1930s were incredibly rude. Not show-everyone-your-pubic-hair rude, but more like exhibit-unreasonably-extreme-anger-and-h
The funny thing is, nobody ever recorded what kind of sandwich it was. When Captain Cook discovered Hawaii he named it the Sandwich Islands. People said, hey Jimmy, it's called Hawaii, but he was all, I like my name better, it makes me think of a magical land filled with jam. He actually wrote a book called Harry Potter and the Sandwich Islands, wherein he expanded on his original premise and named each specific island; Peanut Butter Island, Creamed Honey Island, Olsen Twins Island and so forth. JK Rowling sued him because he used the name "Harry Potter" and because the book was mostly about a pretentious Scottish woman who was no better than she ought to be. It was settled out of court by means of a cage match. Cook got the upper hand early until Rowling tagged her teammate, who was a large Hawaiian tribe with spears. So anyway, that kind of pissed Roosevelt off, so it's no wonder he snapped at Eleanor. But Eleanor didn't know all this, so she just thought it was because she wasn't good enough in bed, and she started cutting herself.
But yeah, Joan Rivers. What's up with that?
What is the deal with "comedy legends"? It seems there are two kinds of comedy legend: the kind who is good at comedy, and the kind that is really, really, crap. There seem to have been a number of comedy legends who were something There's an old Warner Brothers cartoon that parodies Henny Youngman, depicting him as a giant chicken. Old Warner Brothers cartoons had a very distinctive style; sort of creepy, heavy on the banjo-playing cows, and often featuring parodies of popular 1930s celebrities so that modern audiences don't get the jokes. It'd be like if 1930s people could see cartoons today about Lindsay Lohan and Rainn Wilson. In fact it'd be worse, because at least we can look up the celebrities in old cartoons. There was no IMDB back in the 1930s, and even if there had been, it wouldn't have been a future-IMDB that provided details of movie stars from early next century. For people back then to understand our satiricial cartoons, they would need to have newspapers like those depicted in the television series "Early Edition" starring Kyle Chandler and Fisher Stevens, where a newspaper from the future is delivered each morning by a mysterious cat. But then it'd be like, hey, did you hear what Britney did?
Who's Britney?
Don't you read the future paper?
I don't get the future paper, I had to kill my cat at a Henny Youngman show.
Hey, did you see that cartoon about Henny Youngman?
Yes, this truly is a golden age for comedy.
Yeah. And poverty.
I'll say, I'm so poor I had to kill my cat for food.
There's a strange inconsistency in your story.
There's a strange inconsistency in your FACE, bitch!
Yeah, people in the 1930s were incredibly rude. Not show-everyone-your-pubic-hair rude, but more like exhibit-unreasonably-extreme-anger-and-h
The funny thing is, nobody ever recorded what kind of sandwich it was. When Captain Cook discovered Hawaii he named it the Sandwich Islands. People said, hey Jimmy, it's called Hawaii, but he was all, I like my name better, it makes me think of a magical land filled with jam. He actually wrote a book called Harry Potter and the Sandwich Islands, wherein he expanded on his original premise and named each specific island; Peanut Butter Island, Creamed Honey Island, Olsen Twins Island and so forth. JK Rowling sued him because he used the name "Harry Potter" and because the book was mostly about a pretentious Scottish woman who was no better than she ought to be. It was settled out of court by means of a cage match. Cook got the upper hand early until Rowling tagged her teammate, who was a large Hawaiian tribe with spears. So anyway, that kind of pissed Roosevelt off, so it's no wonder he snapped at Eleanor. But Eleanor didn't know all this, so she just thought it was because she wasn't good enough in bed, and she started cutting herself.
But yeah, Joan Rivers. What's up with that?
