What I'd Say To The Martians includes both essays and Saturday Night Live scripts. Are either of these formats more difficult than the other?
Both are hard. To me, the best humor pieces are written from the point of view of a specific character. So when you're thinking of ideas, you think about what your character would be interested in, what he could pontificate about. In TV, you're just trying to come up with a funny ideas. Also, in TV you're thinking visually. I do, anyway. I try to think of a funny image, and then what might explain that funny image.
For sheer writing, doing a humor piece is probably more difficult. But physically, TV really wears you out. Saturday Night Live, anyway. There the writers produce their own pieces, so you have to make sure the sets, props, sound effects, etc., are right. By the after-show party, you're ready for that beer.
Original music by this sick new band my brother's in.
Senior Superlatives at San Dimas High
- Most Likely to Marry Medieval Princesses- Most Likely to Save the World With Rock and Roll
- Most Excellent
Porno Pizzeria Policy
Thirty minutes or less or you don't have to blow the delivery driver.Lord of the Rings in One Minute
Gandalf: You must destroy the one ring of power.Frodo: How?
Gandalf: I'll summon my eagle friend. He'll fly you over Mt. Doom and you can throw in the ring.
Frodo: Thanks!
Questions Questions Questions
- Why do people drive on a parkway, and park on a driveway?- Why is it called luggage on an airplane, and planeage on an airlug?
- Why is it when you fix a house it's called landscaping, but when you house a fix its land callscaping?
Fun To Use When You Don't Need Them, Terrible To Use When You Do
- Adderall- Wheelchairs
- Guns
Cyanide and Happiness
by Cyanide & Happiness May 13, 2008
Assorted Jelly Beans - Babar
by Ben Schwartz May 16, 2008Here is the second installment of RejectedJokes.com's Assorted Jelly Beans - the one panel comic written by Ben Schwartz and brilliantly illustrated by Steve Dressler.
Brain Filler
A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms
by Jeff & Patrick May 09, 2008
One of the defining characteristics of the traditional sitcom is the presence of three walls, which means driving a car through one of those walls is one of the most exciting things that can possibly happen. Here, collected for the first time anywhere on the Internet, are some of the most significant moments in the history of cars driving through walls on sitcoms.
Show: Full House
Episode: "Honey, I Broke the House" (Season 3)
Full House was a show that relished in the kind of wacky, "big" moments that drives a studio audience f*cking nuts, weather it be Rebecca bungee jumping, Michelle buying a donkey, or Joey going on a date (with a woman). It was inevitable that one of the Tanner brood (middle child Stephanie, as it turns out), would roll through Danny's kitchen wall. Note how, shortly after the car breaks through the house, young Michelle enters and punctuates the scene with a gag-inducing adorable punchline. This, it turns out, is one of the staples of sitcom car crashes-and not surprisingly, nobody did gag-inducing adorable like the pre-adolescent Olsen twins.
Show: Frasier
Episode: "The Innkeepers" (Season 2 - 1995)
You might not expect a show like NBC's Frasier stage the kind of four-wheeled mayhem featured in zanier shows like Full House and Family Matters. In part because Dr. Frasier Crane lives in a metropolitan high rise. But more significantly, shows like Frasier represent a sub-genre of more "adult-oriented" sitcoms (Friends, Seinfeld, Will and Grace, et al.) that's less likely to rely on slapstick for its laughs than the Tanners or Winslows. Then came "The Innkeepers", in which an elderly valet plows a diner's sedan through the wall of Frasier's new restaurant, proving that all the sophisticated observational humor the city can produce is no match for simple mass destruction. What worked for Urkel will work for Dr. Crane.
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