Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.
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Louis C.K.
Don’t do anything stupid."" Don’t worry, " I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on stupid."" You’re..."" Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they’ve been? I’m like...
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Brandon Sanderson
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
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Shannon L. Alder
Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do...
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Bill Hicks
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By James Wolcott
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of...
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look...
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
