Tag Archives: humor
The Truth About Cruises
Ms. Madigan nicely sums up why you’ll never find me on a cruise ship.
Appearing to be religious
“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.” — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
Dr. Strangelove
With Putin rattling the “tactical nuclear nukes” saber on a daily basis, this seemed like a good time to enjoy a couple of my favorite scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove.
W. C. Fields: The Great McGonigle
Woodcock Funk You Up
Mr. Wolf’s theory is some talented guitarist spotted this and created the soundtrack.
The United States of Dumb
As a nation of people, the United States is just too stupid to survive.
Bad Lip Reading: The House of Representatives
So many questions. How long does it take to produce one of these? How many voice actors are used? How many of those do more than one voice? Are there out-takes? (God, but I’d love to see those). Do they video the production process? If more than one writer, do they have writer’s meetings?
I took a beer-fueled swing at one of these back in 2006 (think “Really Bad Lib Reading”). A few years later I had a go at a MST3K homage.
Does the ‘funny’ come first?
Bad Lip Reading has an informative Wikipedia page but it doesn’t answer one of my most burning questions. The dialogue/monologue has to be funny nonsense. And it invariably is. But the words always match the lip movement. I’m inclined to believe the funny comes first but the perfect sync seems equally important.
Bad Lip Reading is the creation of Kennedy Unthank: “Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics and hermeneutics. He doesn’t think the ending of Lost was “that bad.”
Playing the “Democracy” card
