Things I'm Annoyed At Being Made To Pay Attention To Lately

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1. Tracy Morgan Didn't have a clue who he was two days ago and didn't feel I was missing a thing. (I live in a cave where broadcast television does not penetrate.) But after my FB feed started bubbling with outrage, I began checking to see what kind of non-apology apology would be forthcoming.
2. That article in the Grid As someone summed it up in ontd_political: "White cis men discover that they don't have to give a fuck, news at eleven." Whatever it takes to sell ad space, right brunorepublic?
3. Weiner's wiener Some kid was ranting about this into his cellphone on the shuttle this morning. Day Two of this scandal and I was already thinking, "I'm so glad we don't have anything important to worry about, like civil wars in the Arab World, killer bacteria, or an economy still in free fall."

Comments

[mlr.livejournal.com]

I oddly don't find Fey (or Morgan) very funny. I know I'm supposed to - she being the comedy darling and all - but my response to her always feels forced. Sandra Bernhardt & Molly Shannon, just to name a couple, seem like more natural comediennes.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

With regard to the women, I think its just a differences in senses of humor, I never really followed up on Sandra Bernhardt after my first few exposures and I was very hit or miss with Molly Shannon when she was on SNL, that said I am always happy to see women working in comedy. Sarah Silverman utterly baffles me, and other people I know and get on with, love her. I think Tina is a good writer, and what I have seen of her on screens of various sizes is funny enough. I think a huge chunk of her humor is that she sets her characters to slip up on various banana peels, she's her own "straight man" (in the comedic sense), and that only goes so far. By design I think it can be uncomfortable to watch, and I get the idea of it feeling forced.

I find Morgan completely one-note on 30 Rock, any time he's on screen its the same basic gag over and over again - and I think the show should wind down, they've played it out. I've never felt any compulsion to check out Morgan's stand up or his other projects on the basis of his time on SNL.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

I don't find Morgan all that funny per se, but I think his character may be necessary for the show's chemistry as someone for the others to react off-- the episodes without him didn't work as well as I might have thought. Though the show may also just be reaching its limits overall.

[mlr.livejournal.com]

Interesting points. I enjoy women in comedy as much or more than men. Lily Tomlin was also one I really loved - but that probably dates me :-)

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

"Though the show may also just be reaching its limits overall."

I agree, Morgan is definitely being played off, its a decent ensemble, the article I read indicated that Fey and Baldwin felt like they've really done most of what can be done with the premise and their characters.


mir, then lets be dated together, I love Lily Tomlin and I don't recall a time before Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner and Larraine Newman, and there is the goddess of curtain rods, Carol Burnett....

[gopower.livejournal.com]

The curtain rod gag still makes me laugh.