All Things:Comedy

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Louis CK and Mark Maron, 1989
 
Bobcat was on Bill Maher...sorry, I used to LOVE Bobcat back in the day, and I LOVE him now. See the Showtime special and see Bobcat's new movie. If you have NOTHING better to do, I recommend HOT TO TROT(thank you for seeing this in westwood with me for my bd Kingsqueen...years ago), and Shakes the Klown.
 
It was a great interview. Nice(and rare) for him to 'not' be playing and actually just chatting about himself.
 
jerseydevil said:
And, theres gonna be a new Scary Movie that takes on...Black Swan. That's timely. Can they just send these straight to dvd exclusively sold at WalMart and leave the rest of us alone. I would rather watch one of those Star Wars/Avengers/Dark Knight Rises porn spoofs. They would prolly be funnier.
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I bet you would, perv.

And (you just know) somewhere somebody is dreaming up a porn spoof of Hunger Games. :O
 
THE DICTATOR Review

Anyone can be offensive. The skill comes with trying to get people to laugh at it. Sacha Baron Cohen, the mind behind the semi-scripted comedies Borat and Bruno, has shown a great skill at getting audiences to laugh at light comic fodder like incest, rape, anti-Semitism, screaming dickholes, and carrying bags of **** to the dinner table. He also tends to throw in a little social criticism for some spice. The Dictator marks his first feature-length, fully-scripted film, and while the blade may be a bit more polished, the edge remains razor-sharp. Despite a slapdash plot and a cop-out ending, The Dictator is brilliantly irreverent, juvenile, cartoonish, and it will have you laughing, feeling guilty about laughing, and then laughing even harder...

...Strangely, for all the jokes made at the expense of minorities and tragedies, The Dictator has a glass jaw. The ending fails to reconcile the monstrous acts of Aladeen with his newfound “humility”. The film ends up torn between the brilliant dark comedy of the previous 75 minutes and trying to leave audiences on an uplifting note. Cohen never wants us to feel conflicted about Aladeen, and his performance goes a long way in helping us feel sympathy towards the character. However, Cohen is incredibly reluctant in having Aladeen grow because doing so would fundamentally change what makes the character absurd. If Aladeen becomes kind and understanding and sheds off his authoritarian ways, then he’s not funny anymore. It’s bizarre that the movie can be a crowd-pleaser by making jokes about rape centers, but it’s too timid to buck the convention of a transformative arc.

As long as it stays away from timid compromise, The Dictator is a deliciously bad-taste comedy. I saw the film almost a week ago and I’m still chuckling when I think back on some of the jokes. Shock value dissipates quickly, but The Dictator never uses offense as an end unto itself. It’s always used in the service of gross-out humor, playful banter, cartoony situations, and joyous absurdity. The material may be offensive, but viewers can’t feel too offended when they’re laughing so damn hard.

Rating: B+
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Robin Williams, Mila Kunis and Peter Dinklage Star in THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN

you have 90 minutes left to live, what do you do? That’s the premise of The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, a new screenplay from Daniel Tapitz (Red Dog) to be directed by Phil Alden Robinson (The Sum of All Fears). The picture centers on the fallout after a stand-in doctor mistakenly tells an obnoxious patient that he has an hour-and-a-half left to live. While the patient goes on a tirade in New York City, attempting to right all the wrongs in his life, the doctor tries in vain to track him down. The high concept comedy stars Robin Williams, Mila Kunis and Peter Dinklage, and has also snared Melissa Leo and James Earl Jones. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn is set to start filming this September in Brooklyn.
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Universal Moves Seth MacFarlane's TED up to June 29

Ted was previously set for July 13th, but now the film faces off against Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper pic Magic Mike, the dramedy People Like Us, and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection
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Like the move. They are amping up the advertising and it looks like they are pretty confident about it. Still, you know that Tyler perry flick will take the #1, but an R-rated comedy about Teddy Ruxpin gone wrong probably isn't gonna pull those numbers anyway. Potential battle of the sexes against Magic Mike though. Gonna really spilt up date night.
 
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