This trailer is anything but horrible
Felicia Day passes along the trailer to Joss Whedon’s internet-only comedy Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s kind of the best thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Felicia Day passes along the trailer to Joss Whedon’s internet-only comedy Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s kind of the best thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Most people, when discussing the untimely passing of George Carlin, are focusing on how he pushed the boundaries of comedy with his use of vulgarity in his routines. While that might very much be true, I always thought it wasn’t the words he used but how he used them. He seemed incredibly aware of words, language and their usage and used them for maximum impact. Anyone can use a dirty word but unless you know how to turn a phrase while doing so then it’s a cheap laugh. Carlin, though, wove those – and every other word he had at his disposal – into a tapestry of societal commentary.
Nowhere was this more evident than in my favorite routine of his, the Airline Safety Announcements from the “Jammin’ In New York” special. (Part 1 and Part 2)
This fictional conversation between a bunch of Marvel Comics’ recent movie-fied characters via Twitter is funny on a level I’m not completely comfortable with. You think it’s about petered-out but then the writer slips in a reference to the recent “One More Day” storyline in the Spider-Man comics and it takes on a whole new level of funny.
This screengrab from WaltMossbergSays almost had me shooting coffee out my nose.