vacation was whittled down to two days (out of laziness on my part)--ended up going to SLC. I had fun.
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in other news, I caught a show last night called "Last Comic Standing", which strikes me as either accidentally brilliant or demonically brilliant, it's hard to tell.
i don't watch much T.V. (altho I watch far more than what I hope to convey by saying that "I don't watch much) , but I caught a couple of promos & took it to be a sort of "American Idol" rip-off with comedians instead of karaoke performers.
but no.
there were two initial episodes (of which I caught only the first, as I had to go to work because I, like, have a job) & the basic set-up is this: gaggle of comedians do their bits in front of a panel of celebrity judges (the phrase "panel of celebrity judges" always causes my testes to retreat into my body cavity for some reason) picks 10 from the western half of the US [L.A.] & ten from the Eastern half [NYC]--the 2 groups face off & ten are picked to
um
live in a house together & be filmed every waking moment for 10 weeks..
just think about it.
not sure how the whittling process will work, but at the end there's supposed to Be Only One, who will get a chance at a sitcom deal.
anyway--
this gets the imagination going into bad places. scary places.
I've seen chunks of the various other "reality" clones & there's a certain dynamic to it--Real World: vapid twentysomethings bicker, bond, fuck & cry. Survivor: vapid everysomethings bicker, bond, fuck & cry & eat bugs.
ten comedians. in a house. on camera all the time. trying to be funny all the time. trying to get a sitcom deal...
where's Samuel Beckett when we need him? or Sophocles?
I hope they scotch-guarded the CEILING
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in other news, I caught a show last night called "Last Comic Standing", which strikes me as either accidentally brilliant or demonically brilliant, it's hard to tell.
i don't watch much T.V. (altho I watch far more than what I hope to convey by saying that "I don't watch much) , but I caught a couple of promos & took it to be a sort of "American Idol" rip-off with comedians instead of karaoke performers.
but no.
there were two initial episodes (of which I caught only the first, as I had to go to work because I, like, have a job) & the basic set-up is this: gaggle of comedians do their bits in front of a panel of celebrity judges (the phrase "panel of celebrity judges" always causes my testes to retreat into my body cavity for some reason) picks 10 from the western half of the US [L.A.] & ten from the Eastern half [NYC]--the 2 groups face off & ten are picked to
um
live in a house together & be filmed every waking moment for 10 weeks..
just think about it.
not sure how the whittling process will work, but at the end there's supposed to Be Only One, who will get a chance at a sitcom deal.
anyway--
this gets the imagination going into bad places. scary places.
I've seen chunks of the various other "reality" clones & there's a certain dynamic to it--Real World: vapid twentysomethings bicker, bond, fuck & cry. Survivor: vapid everysomethings bicker, bond, fuck & cry & eat bugs.
ten comedians. in a house. on camera all the time. trying to be funny all the time. trying to get a sitcom deal...
where's Samuel Beckett when we need him? or Sophocles?
I hope they scotch-guarded the CEILING
nice summaries of the real world and survivor.