I think there is a theme to my little blog. Maybe it's the theme of the month. I seem to be crazy about gaffes. I obsess over inappropriate little comments that people make. I like to make them. I like to deconstruct them. I like to follow them. Most of the time, I'm on the "gaffer's" side. I feel like most of the things that people get upset about are due to our oversensitive, wussy, PC culture.
Of course, I'm really excited for the upcoming presidential election, when it won't be hard to find gaffes to deconstruct and rewrite. They should be coming so quickly that I hardly have the time to notice them, let alone degaffe.
Today's gaffe was courtesy of the loathsome Dane Cook. A man who's dubious rise to mediocrity has since now become an embarrassment to an industry. I don't know if I can defend his gaffe, not just because I, like most fans of comedy, don't like Dane Cook, but because I found his joke in question to be absolutely humorless. I didn't even find it offensive, other than to my comedic sensibility.
Cook apparently made a joke about the Aurora massacre, and how the Batman movie was so bad that someone was probably ready to be shot rather than sit through it. I don't think this joke is offensive because it lacks empathy for the shooting victims, I think it's offensive, because it unfairly pans a movie, that seems mostly beloved.
Cook should know better than to make a joke about a movie being terrible if it has a higher rotten tomatoes ratting than all of his movie combined. A way for Cook's joke to have been better would have been for him to talk about how people would have volunteered to commit ritual suicide rather than actually finish "Good Luck Chuck."
Cook making jokes about how awful "The Dark Knight Rises" is as a movie, is sort of like Milli Vanilli critiquing the New York Philharmonic. You can't call a movie everybody likes bad, and expect them to go along with your premise, especially if you are guilty of starring in some of the worst shit to hit the screen in the last decade.
The Degaffer could save cook. It's not too late re-invent yourself as a comedian that makes jokes about how painfully unfunny you were in the last decade. You can pretend to have been setting yourself up as a straw man to later take down. I think it would make for some pretty outrageous comedy. He could set up a projection of his old act, along side himself on stage, and just talk about what a piece of crap he was. I'd pay to see that.
Of course, I'm really excited for the upcoming presidential election, when it won't be hard to find gaffes to deconstruct and rewrite. They should be coming so quickly that I hardly have the time to notice them, let alone degaffe.
Today's gaffe was courtesy of the loathsome Dane Cook. A man who's dubious rise to mediocrity has since now become an embarrassment to an industry. I don't know if I can defend his gaffe, not just because I, like most fans of comedy, don't like Dane Cook, but because I found his joke in question to be absolutely humorless. I didn't even find it offensive, other than to my comedic sensibility.
Cook apparently made a joke about the Aurora massacre, and how the Batman movie was so bad that someone was probably ready to be shot rather than sit through it. I don't think this joke is offensive because it lacks empathy for the shooting victims, I think it's offensive, because it unfairly pans a movie, that seems mostly beloved.
Cook should know better than to make a joke about a movie being terrible if it has a higher rotten tomatoes ratting than all of his movie combined. A way for Cook's joke to have been better would have been for him to talk about how people would have volunteered to commit ritual suicide rather than actually finish "Good Luck Chuck."
Cook making jokes about how awful "The Dark Knight Rises" is as a movie, is sort of like Milli Vanilli critiquing the New York Philharmonic. You can't call a movie everybody likes bad, and expect them to go along with your premise, especially if you are guilty of starring in some of the worst shit to hit the screen in the last decade.
The Degaffer could save cook. It's not too late re-invent yourself as a comedian that makes jokes about how painfully unfunny you were in the last decade. You can pretend to have been setting yourself up as a straw man to later take down. I think it would make for some pretty outrageous comedy. He could set up a projection of his old act, along side himself on stage, and just talk about what a piece of crap he was. I'd pay to see that.
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