It's kind of like if you did a southern accent to portray a Minnesotan. The rest of the sketch was also so on-the-nose. Maybe just because I've been following this story for, oh, around 4 years. But other people have done way better with this material. know I shouldn't expect much from SNL.
Chris Farley would have been perfect!
As a Torontonian I'd just like to say how disappointed I am, when making fun of Canadians, when one lowers oneself to doing the accent thing. We don't talk like that in Toronto. I know it seems trivial, but it's inaccurate, and also super lame. Rub Ferd is a hilarious caricature of a human being. Just do his voice!
I don't think he's got the skills to be a headlining emcee, but he can definitely be one of the guys in the background just walking around with a mic and pumping up the other rappers and audience by chiming in with "Alright alright alright" every now and again.
Make it more like Stereogum, for example:
1) More listicles
2) Everyone in the comments says '"no no here's how I would do it" referring to the listicle.
3) 90% regular trolls
4) the other 10% are people who created an account just to say the band the article is about sucks. Still trolls, but more like drive-by trolls.
5) Abundance of misogyny and racism
Considering his stature, could he not include it in his rider to institute a rule whereby any yelling would be considering obstruction and anybody obstructing the performance should be kicked out? I never understand this about comedians...like, surely there's nothing you can do at small clubs, and often you would want people to contribute freely in a closed environment since that would contribute to a better room. But for big shows like this, surely you know people are going to be dicks. If it's important to your act to have people generally either be silent or laugh, then maybe let the venue know the rules. Certainly, if I yell "DO BRAHMS" at the symphony I'm going to have my butt escorted out.
"You watch any dirty movies? Good. Don't. Now sit back and check out the Rockies poke some dingers into this Philly defense"
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I used to think they were okay, those Burton Batmans. But then I rewatched them recently. And they are simply very very not good Batman iterations. The movies look good, and I love Michael Keaton as Batman, but the direction is really not great. I don't know what happened, I liked Burton growing up, but over the years I've noticed his quirks are really kind of cloying and insincere sometimes. I can't put my finger on why - Beetlejuice and Scissorhands and Pee-Wee are all perfect movies. But some of his other work is so...like it's quirky for the sake of being quirky while not contributing to the story at all, which is too precious for me to handle.
Snack Zyder is very good at alienating people who love the things that he makes movies of! No real Batman fans (knowing what he did with Watchmen) will think much to see this. So I'm not sure why any true geek would honestly care. Like...this is not going to be good guys, but it's okay because 1) you already know this is going to be bad so just don't go see it and 2) it will not affect Batman any more then let's say a Joel Shumacher or Tim Burton Batman affected the character known as Batman. He's still going to fight crime! Don't worry!
Since I'm about to leave on vacation and miss the probably tearful final Gabe monster's ball, I just wanted to give a personal non sequitorial thank you for fostering the most fun and friendly comment board there is on the internet. Your writing left people appalled and your ingenious trampoline video links were so good they were addictive. and before you leave writing articles online GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Videogum is forever fan love you
"Good list, but why no mention of CK Nutz?"
"DK Kong needed to be there"
"This list sux. Mine is 1. BK Buns 2. JC Spink 3. RC Bran 4. CK Nutz 5. AJ Dix"
Sincerely, Stereogum
I'm most annoyed at the part where he uses the ramp to get ahead of the car. Come on, he can't gain speed on the car that's towing him unless he's got state of the art rollerblades with Abec 9 bearings (bearings so state of the art that friction is almost non existent and thus optimizing his speed, maintenance once he lets go, going up the ramp) and that's also if he yanks on the cord at the exact right time and with enough force, and the car just happens to not be accelerating at all I mean, it's just not plausible that he could leap OVER the car. That's the problem with Bollywood these days, there's too many physics errors and I can't concentrate on the story.
This kind of thinking enables the exact same math-fear that led the McAllister to not once, but twice, forget to count on of their children on vacation.
If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong though. It's Hambone.
My wonderful girlfriend made me Cheddar Jalapeno cookies in the shape of a cat, and I've eaten a lot today, and also there was a cake lunch in the office with a fruit custard flan and meanwhile my parents are taking us out to dinner for my grandmas 88th birthday and I'm almost definitely having a Squid Ink pasta, and since how good my days are are mostly determined by the meals I've had, today is an A+++ would eat again.
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You know what...I reverse caution you lbt. SeeCool as Ice because it's hilarious in every way. For like half an hour. Then you may stop. (or continue?)
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