i meant to post something about Wu-Tang torture. It seems so weird to me for like the most popular sketch show on earth to be expecting everyone in their audience to know what happens in an A NON-SINGLE ALBUM TRACK on an an album that only went one-time platinum. It would be like doing a skit about a deep cut on Pearl Jam's No CodeA) The sketch makes no sense unless you're intimately familiar with the Wu track
B) If you ARE intimately familiar with the Wu track, you know every single line of dialogue before it comes. So I have no idea why the audience keeps laughing like he's surprising them with jokes.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:17 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
because that's how comedy works? even if you know what's coming, the anticipation + payoff is what's funny
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:22 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
but otherwise i agree
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:22 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
comedy is about defying people's expectations iirc.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:25 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
otherwise it's just sharing an in-joke?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:26 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sometimes the expected can be unexpected.
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:26 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
A) if you don't know the sketch you've got Dave Chappelle describing crazy ass scenarios involving rappers in a ridiculous voice B) if you know the sketch you may lol at hearing it described as an actual event (which, i, for one, did)
― da croupier, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:26 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
by "sketch" i mean "skit" obv
― da croupier, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:27 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
A) That's not a joke, though
B) I guess. But then it's really a funny PREMISE with no real payoff, but that's just me
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:28 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
of all people to complain about a sketch show celebrating one of the more memorable skits in rap history I wouldn't expect it to be you, Whiney
― da croupier, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:29 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
also between "comedy is about defying expectations" and "that's not a joke" I think you may have more rules about what's allowed to make you laugh than some
― da croupier, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:31 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbh if i had a sketch comedy show on comedy central that was as well loved as his show, i might devote one minute of my airtime to a sketch about a rap in joke
― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:36 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
it wasn't like he had a two hour special about rap skits
― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:37 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's about the recontextualization imo.
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Sunday, August 8, 2010 11:46 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
im not saying it's genius but ya sometimes just reciting something like that matter-of-factly is funny
that's what's unexpected about it
the fact that it is being reported on a news show
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Sunday, August 8, 2010 11:56 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Right, I def agree the idea/premise is funny! But its like one joke with a 90 second punchline. And everyone in the audience is laughing like it's 7 or 8 jokes!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, August 9, 2010 12:05 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
well... you know that laughter on tv comedy shows isn't necc totally spontaneous right
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, August 9, 2010 12:06 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
and also
i kinda laughed a few times
throughout the skit
as the lines kept coming
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, August 9, 2010 12:08 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
s1ock, do u smoke the pot?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, August 9, 2010 12:08 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
i mean, when you first saw it, did you just give one loud bark-like laugh when the premise registered and then sit stone-faced through the rest of the skit?
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, August 9, 2010 12:08 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
ahahaha, that's essentially what happened
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, August 9, 2010 12:09 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
hahahaha
― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, August 9, 2010 12:09 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
At least the most recent time i saw it, that's the gist of my emotional range during the sketch, yes
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, August 9, 2010 12:10 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink