Quiet Desperation episode 17, Oh Chippah Options

[lesteradams]

Quiet Desperation episode 17

[RiffRaff]

to start. i really liked the original (pre-QD) short vids.

but robby, these QD videos (especially this one) are like a huge inside joke.

honestly, what are you going for?

are you trying to shop this? or is this just for fun?

[peteywheatstraw]

Did I walk past you dopes filming at New Alliance over the weekend?

[Satan]

Unfunny, and believe Me as the Master of Unfunny, I know unfunny. This reeks of it.

[goat]

Fuckin' hilarious!

[mhaverty]

I thought this one was one of the better ones.

[Satan]

Less unfunny than the others, yes.

[Johnny Angel]

I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into these and they are decently shot and edited.

But if they don't make me laugh or even smile......one of my closest friends in the area has become a principal in these and I really wanna like 'em for her sake. I'm trying, Rob, I really am--but write some actual funny bits, dude, you can do it.

I hope. The general improv just isn't happening.

[MrCheese]

Good stuff.

Method acting?

I think some of these things are things I can relate to from my past: the somewhat crazy people at the rehearsal studio (in my case, the Music Complex), I got levitationally stoned in that Medford/Wincheaster Revolutionary War lookout when I was 19, and of course, Santa's Village...which I never did tripping but my friends and I always talked about going to Riverside (now Six Flags) tripping...

keep 'em coming.

This post has been edited by MrCheese: Feb 4 2010, 04:28 PM

[RiffRaff]

so Robby is FrankD?

[Danny Vermin]

they are decently shot and edited.

I'm not going to even bother with commenting on the acting/script shit. Needless to say it's fucking terrible pointless stupidity.

But I have to ask johnny, are you blind, or is it just that your ADD gels with the editing in these? What a fucking mess. everything runs into/over one another. It's like it was edited on the 5th day of a coke/meth bender by someone who wanted to see exactly how close he could cut dialog togeher before it becomes one giant stream of consciousness faucet of bad middle school level humor.

It's like giving Rainman access to Protools and a large jar of chocolate covered coffee beans.

This post has been edited by Danny Vermin: Feb 4 2010, 04:41 PM

[DanPM]

is this thread a rerun?

[MrCheese]

I'm not going to even bother with commenting on the acting/script shit. Needless to say it's fucking terrible pointless stupidity.

But I have to ask johnny, are you blind, or is it just that your ADD gels with the editing in these? What a fucking mess. everything runs into/over one another. It's like it was edited on the 5th day of a coke/meth bender by someone who wanted to see exactly how close he could cut dialog togeher before it becomes one giant stream of consciousness faucet of bad middle school level humor.

It's like giving Rainman access to Protools and a large jar of chocolate covered coffee beans.

I bet you think "Everybody Loves Raymond" is hilarious.


Maybe Robby should use a laugh track so you'll like it more.

This post has been edited by MrCheese: Feb 4 2010, 04:44 PM

[JoeO]

I found the homer simpleton beard make up very distracting but the Black guy reminded me of Jackson in Pulp so on balance good job

[Danny Vermin]

I bet you think "Everybody Loves Raymond" is hilarious.
Maybe Robby should use a laugh track so you'll like it more.

So you're saying that the dialog isn't muffled and cut so close together that it makes no sense?

This isn't a matter of like or dislike. It's poorly edited. no space between the sentences.

Itslikeitseditedlikethissoyouhavetoreallyconcentratewickedfuckinghardjusttoeekou
tthreewordsthatformacogentsentence.

It's painfully bad editing.

[Dr. Moose]

I bet you think "Everybody Loves Raymond" is hilarious.
Maybe Robby should use a laugh track so you'll like it more.

Everyone loves Everyone Loves Raymond.....

[JoeO]

Everyone loves Vermin.....

FIxed

[Johnny Angel]

I'm not going to even bother with commenting on the acting/script shit. Needless to say it's fucking terrible pointless stupidity.

But I have to ask johnny, are you blind, or is it just that your ADD gels with the editing in these? What a fucking mess. everything runs into/over one another. It's like it was edited on the 5th day of a coke/meth bender by someone who wanted to see exactly how close he could cut dialog togeher before it becomes one giant stream of consciousness faucet of bad middle school level humor.

It's like giving Rainman access to Protools and a large jar of chocolate covered coffee beans.

They're "shorts".

They're supposed to be edited tightly.

That the dialogue isn't very good and there are a lot of slack spaces (because it is improvised) there means it gets sewn together in the fashion it is.

Would you prefer endless pregnant pauses and lots of "err's","uhmm's" and "ya know's", Francis Ford Crapola?

[Danny Vermin]

They're "shorts".

They're supposed to be edited tightly.

That the dialogue isn't very good and there are a lot of slack spaces (because it is improvised) there means it gets sewn together in the fashion it is.

Would you prefer endless pregnant pauses and lots of "err's","uhmm's" and "ya know's", Francis Ford Crapola?

I look at it this way.

Not that I'm comparing them on any sort of artistic or talent level, but this kind of psuedo-scriptless notreallyimprov situational comedy is like a homeless person's version of what Christopher Guest has done with Spinal Tap/Best In Show/Waiting for Guffman.

I LOVE that kind of stuff. But the thing that makes them laugh out loud funny is EXACTLY the dead air space. The uncomfortable silence after someone utters an uncomfortable truth about their character. the pause while waiting for a reaction.

This, on the other hand, leaves no space in between, and is really nothing more than a haphazardly slapped together collection of bad stereotypes that stopped being funny sometime around junior year of high school.

[Johnny Angel]

This, on the other hand, leaves no space in between, and is really nothing more than a haphazardly slapped together collection of bad stereotypes that stopped being funny sometime around junior year of high school.

Exactly--hammer on nail.

But if it were slower, there'd be more of it--you'd want 12 minutes of this as opposed to six?

[Mister Shhh]

How's YOUR comedy video short doing?

[DanPM]

when is season 2?

[Danny Vermin]

Exactly--hammer on nail.

But if it were slower, there'd be more of it--you'd want 12 minutes of this as opposed to six?

Slower.

and less "hey lets take drugs man!" "Oh shit it's that angry black guy who swears alot!"

[coughlin]

I bet you think "Everybody Loves Raymond" is hilarious.
Maybe Robby should use a laugh track so you'll like it more.

well, he did enjoy opie & anthony.

[Jeff Bruisers]

I know that everyone has a different sense of humor and some of you guys don't get this stuff but I still think it's pretty fucking funny shit.