The "not worth its own thread" thread

[crimestick]

Ya Benniganz

[Adult Ed]

Sounds like a plan.

I wish your MySpace page was that easy to delete.

The easiest way to delete your myspace page is to post porn. That'll get it deleted.

[Fentmore]

Cheech and Chong will reunite for comedy tour.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

[Jawa]

I was clicking around on MySpace and got to a page by Dan Harmon, a person I am not familiar with, but who some of you might be (he has worked as head writer on the Sarah Silverman show, among other things).

I read this blog entry:
http://tinyurl.com/5h5hsz
which really bummed me out.

I don't know Mr. Harmon, and I don't know Beau Brooks, but I have posted a couple comments like Mr. Brooks in the past (I'm talking about his initial comment about Briscoe).

People join groups for a variety of reasons. I have to admit, when I first joined AST it was primarily for the opportunity to interact with some of the comedians I admire. I left what I thought was an innocuous comment on Patton's Q&A Thread, and got a terse putdown by Tron in response. Reflecting on it, it was a Beau Brooks kinda comment that I made, and maybe I deserved the little smackdown I got (but ooooooh, his comment still madea me so maaaaaad). I don't know.

After a several month hiatus (not due to Tron's comment), I came back to AST, I think (or hope) for better reasons, more connected to joining a community of people who enthusiastically share some of my interests, rather than some kind of starfuckerishness.

I don't know, perhaps this is some stupid online diary crap I am foisting upon this thread. I find the interaction with Harmon and Brooks (a comedy guy and his fan) fascinating, and ultimately depressing (Mr. Harmon's MySpace page title *is* called unspeakablesadness, so maybe I should not be surprised).

I thought it was worth reading, as I am really interested in how people connect (the recent Wall-E crying girl and the folks at Pixar) or don't connect (here). I wouldn't share it if I didn't think there was something thoughtful and deep in the tangle of words.

And if you don't like it, go fuck yourself, etc., etc., etc.

[darrylduffy]

I was clicking around on MySpace and got to a page by Dan Harmon, a person I am not familiar with, but who some of you might be (he has worked as head writer on the Sarah Silverman show, among other things).

and he was a huge part of acceptable.tv

i like reading his blog, but i feel like i don't read it for a few months and play catch up.

also, good choice putting this in 'NWIOT' thread. i think we talked this whole thing out with the 'joe rogan vs. a black belt kid' before.

[Jawa]

and he was a huge part of acceptable.tv

i like reading his blog, but i feel like i don't read it for a few months and play catch up.

also, good choice putting this in 'NWIOT' thread. i think we talked this whole thing out with the 'joe rogan vs. a black belt kid' before.

I must have missed the Rogan/Kid thread. I hope it all turned out well, though I suspect it didn't.

[darrylduffy]

ah sorry, not a thread here, but on his myspace.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...d-eaf6e2cd3127

[pollymaepry]

Dan Harmon's blog is one of my favorite things to read on the webb...prolly for all terrible, wrong reasons.

[yumitree]

we did talk about it here, though. well, maybe not here... was it still the ezboard back in 2006?

[Jawa]

ah sorry, not a thread here, but on his myspace.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...d-eaf6e2cd3127

Hmm, if this is the Rogan/Kid exchange you were talking about, I don't feel so bad about my post -- it's a little different, in my opinion.

If Kevin is the "Black Belt Kid", he just seems like a guy who doesn't like Rogan and just wants to get into a fight with the man. Mission accomplished.

I don't see Brooks as trying to start a fight with Harmon, though not having seen your previous discussion maybe you touched on this kind of comic/fan interaction already.

[Jawa]

One more stupid thing about the Dan Harmon blog entry.

Rather than posting about it here, I was originally going to leave some sort of comment on his Beau Brooks post (something about how the whole thing was very depressing to me). However, to do so I would have first had to request to be his friend.

Something about that struck me as funny.

"Hey Dan, how's about you add me as a friend, so's I can tell you how depressed you made me."

[Embiggen]

As a big fan of Harmon's, reading that really bummed me out. I'm not sure how much of all the good people/bad people stuff towards the end was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm not even sure if it matters. That post turned my stomach.

[aenemaTron]

http://www.911twenty.com/

[Embiggen]

http://www.911twenty.com/

I'd seen that on TV, but never noticed the fact that it was legal tender in Liberia until just now. Awesome.

[Jack]

"Hey Dan, how's about you add me as a friend, so's I can tell you how depressed you made me."

Regarding the Dan Harmon blog, hate to state the obvious but not everyone in the world of entrainment is a happy/fun person. Don't mix the product and the process. Most professional comedians have tremendous emotional issues caused by tons of stuff. And you really might get sick if you saw the proverbial "sausage" being made.

And that's why I think so many comedy pros had issues with Steve Martin's bio Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. You see—and I hope this isn't a spoiler for anyone out there since it's a half-a-year old at this point—but here's the deep/dark secret about Martin's life and career you get after reading the book: He stopped putting his soul into comedy when he repaired the relationship he had with his father. And he admits most of his career was based on the sad/true cliche of "I'm doing this to get attention from my dad..." So now he is going through the motions, but mainly because he's paid to do so.

Guys who act like Dan are more of the rule than the exception. And I feel sorry for him from a distance. But if I had to work with an asshat—or array of asshats—like that in any way, I wouldn't.

And FWIW, I caught up with someone I know who is still in the biz (at least for the short term) who recently had a kid after decades of saying he wouldn't. So basically when I asked him why he ended up having one he just said: "My work is not going to hug me when I get older; it's a job." Happy he finally figured it out.

As far as Dan's blog goes, I look forward to future blogs from someone who is 35+ and who gets into insulting pissing matches with fans on MySpace despite the fact he's technically in a position of power and shouldn't be that petty. What fun and joy!

[BillBrasky]

Mike Myers has been developing a fourth "Austin Powers" movie for quite a while now. In May of 2007, he said:

"We're developing a fourth [movie], entirely from Dr. Evil's point of view. That is part of what I've been doing in the last little while."

Now, Deadline Hollywood Daily has a few more details on which direction Myers is going:

I'm told that Mike Myers has started writing Austin Powers 4 which will be a homage to his father. "It's very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life," an insider tells me. As Myers has previously said, this fourth installment of the super spy spoof movie series will focus on Austin's arch-villain Dr. Evil, who was based on Blofeld of the Bond films. But what hasn't been known is that the AP4 plot is really about Dr. Evil and his son (introduced already as Scott Evil, played by Seth Green).

The site adds that Myers is co-writing again with Michael McCullers, who collaborated with Myers on the second and third installments.

[JPSpaulding]

hooray to Seth getting a paycheck, boo to everything else

[BillBrasky]

Highlight reel for Sesame Street Season 39



In this promo reel for Season 39 (which starts August 11th) you can spy, among others: Jack Black, Jonah Hill, Will Arnett (playing a magician!), Neil Patrick Harris (playing a shoe fairy), Brian Williams, and Feist (performing her song "1,2,3,4")

Best of all: a parody of "30 Rock", with Liz Lemon as an actual lemon! Adorable.

[Meen Bellpeppers]

God I love that show.

[Batman The Horse]

"Good night, and good cluck!"

Awesome.