movies

[Arthur Dent]

lame sketch humor NPR does from time to time

Are you talking about stuff like The Capitol Steps or Wait Wait Don't Tell Me?

[lukethedrifter]

lame sketch humor NPR does from time to time

Are you talking about stuff like The Capitol Steps or Wait Wait Don't Tell Me?

Schweddy Balls perhaps?

[KeepingItCasual]

Speaking of Lynch, Eraserhead. For five minutes then turned it off.

[The Third Man]

Speaking of Lynch, Eraserhead. For five minutes then turned it off.

Lame.

[KeepingItCasual]

I wasn't in the mood for being bored.

[ghostrunner]

lame sketch humor NPR does from time to time

Are you talking about stuff like The Capitol Steps or Wait Wait Don't Tell Me?

Capitol Steps, I'm pretty sure. I don't know about the other one. I haven't heard it in a while, but sometimes they'll have them come on or play a bit during "All Things Considered" or one of those shows. It reminds me of Mark Russell when he was on PBS. Just awful, unfunny stuff.

Just my opinion of course, but really almost anything on public tv or radio that tries to be funny isn't. I don't know if Canada's public TV pays for the Red Green show, but it gets rebroadcast here on PBS in some places, and that's another one.

The funnier stuff comes out of the shows that aren't entirely about being funny, like This American Life. They have some regular contributors who are funny. David Sedaris is funny sometimes too, but even there people howl with laughter at his stuff when it doesn't seem called for to me.

I remember liking this episode of the Simpsons when they find Garrison Keillor on TV:

The Simpsons watch a telethon.

Man: [quietly] Well, sir, it has been an uneventful week in Badger
Falls...where the women are robust, the men are pink-cheeked, and
the children are pink-cheeked and robust.
[Audience laughs loudly]
Homer: What the hell's so funny?
Man: At the Apple Biscuit cafe, where the smiles are free, don't you
know, Sven Inqvist studied the menu, and finally he ordered the
same thing he has every day.
[Audience laughs and applauds]
Bart: Maybe it's the TV.
Homer: Stupid TV. [Hits it] Be more funny!

[MrSaigon]

I watched Amores Perros. Now I dislike Crash even more. Crash takes the concept of Amores Perros, removes all credit for the audience, replaces all elements of the film with the theme of racism, urinates on the mere shadow of the thought of subtlety, then wins an Oscar.

Amores Perros is pretty good. Very well acted. Thought provoking. The second story dragged a bit for me. I think Babel is my favorite from Innaritu.

[cardsfansince82]

Waltz with Bashir- Highly recommended. Very unique artistic concept with extremely well-done animation.

[omaha_red]

I wasn't in the mood for being bored.

please don't insult the movie by ever trying to watch it again.. thanks.

[wart57]

I watched Finding Nemo with Stinky for the 1,475th time. That is one good movie.