Salute Your Shorts: Dan Harmon's Channel 101 Shows
A serious overview of this man’s stupid and ridiculous output.
Things Used To Be Better In Many Ways
"Auto-Tune The News" on CBS Evening News
They show the Katie Couric clip - full circle.
“It’s like a Photoshop for the voice.” Perfect words.
reblogged from crumbler
You had to go to the third liquor store?! Just go to one! I stole a Kit Kat last week! Nobody knows!
You’ll see more of Andy around the Parks & Recreation Department - I personally see him working his way to the top. [Laughs.] He’d be a perfect politician; he’s affable, he can memorize lines and smile and shake hands, and he’s just dumb enough to let someone pull his strings. He’ll probably end up being mayor of Pawnee.
Chris Pratt
![In fact, [the Jeff Dunham] jokes that get some of the wildest, loudest reactions aren’t really even jokes, just statements. Like when one puppet shouts that all Mexicans should learn English, or when Dunham wishes Walter “Happy Holidays” and Walter responds: “I’ve been wanting to say this for a couple of years now: Screw you, it’s ‘Merry Christmas’!” And the crowd doesn’t laugh; it riotously applauds. Dunham describes them as moments of “catharsis,” when the dummy says something “everyone wants to laugh about, or that you snicker at with one or two friends, but that you could never say out loud.”
The profile of Jeff Dunham in Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine is really interesting in that its author, Jon Mooallem, attempts to put a positive slant on this comedy that even he hints is a legitimization of bigotry. (I like the line where he basically calls Dunham’s audience a diverse crowd of overweight Caucasians.) What I found intriguing was the section depicting a writer’s meeting for his Comedy Central show, where Dunham surgically removes slightly obscure or gross-out jokes in order to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. It’s clear the man is incredibly skilled when it comes to entertaining his target audience, and he didn’t get there without years of hard work… it’s just incredibly disappointing that his style of humor appears to be America’s Favorite.](http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksgyz2e0OC1qzb1f4o1_500.jpg)
In fact, [the Jeff Dunham] jokes that get some of the wildest, loudest reactions aren’t really even jokes, just statements. Like when one puppet shouts that all Mexicans should learn English, or when Dunham wishes Walter “Happy Holidays” and Walter responds: “I’ve been wanting to say this for a couple of years now: Screw you, it’s ‘Merry Christmas’!” And the crowd doesn’t laugh; it riotously applauds. Dunham describes them as moments of “catharsis,” when the dummy says something “everyone wants to laugh about, or that you snicker at with one or two friends, but that you could never say out loud.”The profile of Jeff Dunham in Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine is really interesting in that its author, Jon Mooallem, attempts to put a positive slant on this comedy that even he hints is a legitimization of bigotry. (I like the line where he basically calls Dunham’s audience a diverse crowd of overweight Caucasians.) What I found intriguing was the section depicting a writer’s meeting for his Comedy Central show, where Dunham surgically removes slightly obscure or gross-out jokes in order to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. It’s clear the man is incredibly skilled when it comes to entertaining his target audience, and he didn’t get there without years of hard work… it’s just incredibly disappointing that his style of humor appears to be America’s Favorite.
My first idea was that he’s from England, and he’s come over here because he’s been successful here. But then also, I imagined him being from London, Ontario, and then he just stops mentioning the “Ontario” part, and he’s just become more and more pretentious, and starts speaking completely differently.
Jermaine Clement on his role as Ronald Chevalier in Gentlemen Broncos
![Koi Pond - The Office [Season 6, Episode 7]
As with the rest of this season so far, everyone absolutely killed it tonight - uh, wow, no pun intended. I wonder whether the writers are going through a legit creative renaissance or they were just thrown off their game by Greg Daniels shifting his attentions over to Parks & Rec.
I slept with a terrorist.](http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksb8kvA9oG1qzb1f4o1_500.jpg)
Koi Pond - The Office [Season 6, Episode 7]
As with the rest of this season so far, everyone absolutely killed it tonight - uh, wow, no pun intended. I wonder whether the writers are going through a legit creative renaissance or they were just thrown off their game by Greg Daniels shifting his attentions over to Parks & Rec.
I slept with a terrorist.
So excited for The League - in addition to Paul Scheer and Nick Kroll, it stars MUMBLECORE SUPERSTAR Mark Duplass!
Male Prima Donna - Subtle Sexuality
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