Unneighborly Neighbors: Comedic gaps in cinema

Brittany Harvey offers a much-belated criticism of  Nicholas Stoller's Neighbors (2014):

I realize writing about this movie is not exactly timely, considering when it came out, but my husband and I just watched it. It was dumb. I like a lot of dumb movies—usually those starring former cast members of Freaks and Geeks are my favorites—but even Seth Rogan could not pull this one out of the depths of its excuses for humor. Basically, it is a movie about a bunch of people who are all discontent with their present lives, who through the unsuspecting plot twists and wild antics, realize their lives are not that bad. The problem is that in order to arrive at the newly found contentment, all the characters must be absolutely, unrelenting in their awfulness toward one another. Violence, lies, deception, adultery, and tattle tales are the means every character uses to relate to one another. The depiction of humanity the movie creates is bleak, and we are supposed to laugh right along as neighbors fight each other, launch firecrackers at one another, and drink each other to oblivion.

Time Waster: Ball 8

Artie Lange took off enough time from doing horse to appear on the Letterman show on Tuesday. The comedian went on to chronicle a day spent with legendary baseball announcer Bob Uecker during spring training. The story refers to his trip to the booth with Norm McDonald and tells of Uecker's mastery of the cough button. As a former high school soccer announcer I can relate to how hard it is to remember to push the button while talking about how I would rather be somewhere else. That somewhere else, basically anywhere but in a booth next to the old drunk athletic director.




With Leather

RIP

George Carlin, the comic genius and parent of the pissed-off comic bit,(which has been copied but never bested time and time again) passed away yesterday at the age of 71 from heart failure. Carlin is best known for introducing us to the seven dirty words. In our opinion his best stuff was about religion and death, so we thought this quote served perfectly for this sad occasion.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as
they get older; then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final
exam

Here is great clip of Carlin talking about his view on sports: NSFW-not safe for work



RIP funnyman