Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts

01 August 2020

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: The Story of Fire Saga



Wholesome version of Spinal Tap set in Iceland.

I laughed my ass off.  Highly recommend.
Here, watch Volcano Man.

24 March 2014

Queen of the Night

Cirque du Soleil meets Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Medieval Times Restaurant meets a Roman Feast.





What happens when you make the audience participate?


Twelfth Night

Men playing women playing men.




Stephen Fry playing Malvolio.  Done with strict attention paid to authenticity, the costumes were glorious, stiff collars and boned waists, lace and linens.  Hilarious live theater.

13 March 2013

Hard Times

What happens in a small Irish village, stays in the village and then gets exploited for tourism.

or

How many euphemisms for sex and naughty bits can you come up with?

12 March 2013

Jack and Jill

Sandler makes fun of Tyler Perry


or


The self-depricating side of Al Pacino






This movie gets a really bad rap.  As a stand alone, it's bad, Sandler and David Spade cross-dressing, Pacino slumming, tired tropes about twins, etc.  BUT, if you look at it as a parody of all the twin movies and the lead as two characters etc, then it's actually pretty wicked.
He has Al Pacino making fun of himself and doing a singing and dancing Dunkin Donuts commercial!  He has cameos of most of the SNL cast from decades past as well as Drew Carey, Christie Brinkley, Johnny Depp, Bruce Jenner, John McEnroe, and Shaq.
His premise is the relative who visits and never leaves, but it's also about how you have to own your past and acknowledge it and move forward from it, because nothing stays buried alive.  It's also about being honest with yourself and being honest with those around you and allowing them to be honest with you.  Acceptance.  Love.  You don't have to like their behavior, or agree with their choices.
He's also poking fun at the usual crap coming out of Hollywood like 13 going on 30 and Big Momma's House and all the tired cliche ridden crap sequels that get made.
As usual, his humor is harsh at times and has that nasty 5 boroughs sharp hurtful one-liner hatred of all things unpopular, but really, isn't Sandler saying things you thought for a fleeting second and shoved away because it wasn't a "nice" thought?

The Wedding Singer

Gen X ten years later.


or


"Singles" in New Jersey








(One of my favorite Sandler movies)

27 May 2011

Easy A


Clueless meets Mean Girls meets Heathers with a dash of 10 Things I Hate About You and topped with the smart girl from Superbad.





      

07 December 2010

Zombieland

Zombieland


A few of those 10 minute army instruction films from WWII 
meet National Lampoon's Vacation and Day of the Dead.