COMEDY INC SLAGS OFF GLASSHOUSE

[Pautiric]

I have seen no more than 5 minutes of Comedy Inc. and i don't think i have ever been more put off by a show. I'm really disappointed, not only have they failed to find anything that remotely matches Fast Forward (that's just my own opinion), they have actually managed to make a skit show that induces a feeling of shame. What a load of crap. So far I have not heard anything but complaints from it...

In regards to the suggestion that we should all complain about it...

Perhaps we could make it even a little more interesting for them and come up with a uniform response and have everyone send it in...

Starting with something like

I am appalled at the utter stench that emits from this show. It goes beyond tasteless yet acceptable humor and is essentially no more than vile faeces enducing a reaction similar to that of a putrid rotting corpse. How you can call this comedy is an insult to anyone with a sense of humor and appreciation for the art.



if you can't tell... i'm not impressed...

[Munchkin]

Can I send that in to Rove?

[smooth]

Aw, come on, it's all in good fun

They take the piss out of anything and everything on Comedy Inc.... the Glasshouse was bound to get slammed sooner or later

[Claire]

There wasn't this much uproar when the old full frontal on ch10 took off GNW .... (you know gnw was replacing full frontal and they did the GNW sketch thing....)

We are all just a bit to touchie about glasshouse..

Don't get me wrong I enjoy glasshouse... but wowie we are all a might touchie about it... :boxing_s: :boxing:

it was all in good fun... but admittley it wasn't actually funny :lookarou:

[Mythor]

Uhhh, wasn't Full Frontal on Ch7?
Full Frontal had a well established reputation by that time, if it knocked GNW it had earned the right to do so.
Comedy Inc hasn't even finished a single season yet.

[MagNar]

Originally Posted by Mythor

Uhhh, wasn't Full Frontal on Ch7?
Full Frontal had a well established reputation by that time, if it knocked GNW it had earned the right to do so.
Comedy Inc hasn't even finished a single season yet.

I really loved Full Frontal on channel seven, but the GNW takeoff was on TOTALLY full frontal, when it moved to channel ten. I thought that Totally Full Frontal was about the same level as Comedy Inc. I don't even like the glasshouse, (don't dislike it, either) and I was offended when I was flicking channels and I heard Comedy Inc making "fun" of them. It's a bit of a coincidence that the saying, "people who live in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones" applies so well to Paul McCarthy and his cronies at Comedy Inc paying out people who aren't funny.

Did that make sense? I have the flu, (not the deadly one, I hope).

[Mythor]

Ahhhhh, now I see. I stopped watching towards the end of the Ch7 days, so that's probably why I didn't remember.

[MagNar]

I don't want to turn this into a "we hate avril" sort of thread where people who supposedly hate her keep going out of their way to find interesting tidbits or quotes and then post them, (no offense anyone. I haven't even been into the thread, but that's what I hear). But this just happened to be in the tv guide this week and the tv guide is next to the computer:

"If it's just people in dodgy wigs looking around doing lame sketches it's not going to survive"

says one of the girls from Comedy Inc.

I laughed so hard when I saw that. Take away the "if" at the start and it's a perfect description of the show, from what I've seen.

[Munchkin]

Originally Posted by MagNar

I don't want to turn this into a "we hate avril" sort of thread where people who supposedly hate her keep going out of their way to find interesting tidbits or quotes and then post them

The tidbits keep finding their way to us

[MagNar]

Ok, I believe you. As I said, I'm not actually familiar with the thread, so don't worry about what I say.

[Pautiric]

Don't get me wrong... my dislike towards the show is nothing to do with the glass house slag off.. i didn't even see it... In fact... i rarely watch Glass house (Usually i'm traveling when it's on so i never get the chance)

I just don't like the show...

I'm all for the mocking and slagging off... but it has to be done well!
That, in my opinion, is not done well.

Fast Forward was brilliant... I started watching that when it began and loved it, and still love it to this day...

Full Frontal was ok but I was not too keen on some of the people in it... once it became Totally Full Frontal i lost it completely and this... well... this is just plain shit.

[pixieDAAS]

Comedy Inc is ok, skithouse is better for having tripod and more orginal stuff

i'm more angry that they set up Rove than having go at Glasshouse, he's not that immature!

i do admit Paul McCathy is very clever

[Laney]

Originally Posted by pixieDAAS

...they set up Rove...he's not that immature!

yes he is :p



I haven't watched an episode, but they keep sending up others, right? Well, let it go. c'mon, we all know they're shit and they're trying to be funny....so they pay the glass house out and it's not funny, so what does it really matter? as already said, wil pays out comedy inc, comedy inc pays out wil. meh, who cares....why's it a problem for people anyway?

[Liquid]

Originally Posted by Pautiric

Perhaps we could make it even a little more interesting for them and come up with a uniform response and have everyone send it in...

that's a great idea I suggest people use Scott Pakin's Automatic Complaint Letter Generator to create letters to send to them, that'll confuse and annoy 'em.

here's the webby

http://hugin.sigusr1.org/~pakin/complaint

[Claire]

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm the founder of the Anti-Comedy Inc Society. In this letter, I will tell you what made me form such an organization and how I plan to use it to raise issues, as opposed to guns or knives. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how time has only reinforced that conviction. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, I am making a pretty serious accusation here. I am accusing Comedy Inc of planning to create an unwelcome climate for those of us who are striving to shatter the adage that the laws of nature don't apply to it. And I don't want anyone to think that I am basing my accusation only on the fact that once people obtain the critical skills that enable them to think and reflect and speculate independently, they'll realize that whenever there's an argument about Comedy Inc's devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that Comedy Inc's counter-productive shell games run counter to human nature and, as such, are doomed to failure. That should settle the argument pretty quickly.

Comedy Inc's representatives have learned their scripts well, and the rhetoric comes gushing forth with little provocation. Comedy Inc contends that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. Sounds rather pugnacious, doesn't it? Well, that's Comedy Inc for you.

It should be intuitively obvious even to the most casual observer that seeking to bribe the parasitic with the earnings of the productive is a hallmark of a totalitarian regime, and everyone with half a brain understands that. Life isn't fair. We've all known this since the beginning of time, so why is Comedy Inc so compelled to complain about situations over which it has no control? I've never gotten a clear and honest answer to that question from Comedy Inc. But what is clear is that if it can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals, then it will become virtually impossible for anyone to make a genuine contribution to human society. When I say that Comedy Inc is a loose cannon, I don't just mean that it wants to progressively narrow the sphere of human freedom, that it wants to dismantle the guard rails that protect society from the brain-damaged elements in its midst, or that it wants to cast the world into nuclear holocaust. Sure, Comedy Inc undeniably wants all that, but it also wants much more. It wants to feed on the politics of resentment, alienation, frustration, anger, and fear.

Why does Comedy Inc want to put rude devotees of conspiracy theories on the federal payroll? Because I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke it to seize control of the power structure. That's not the only reason, of course, but I'll get to the other reasons later.

Are you still with me? The ideological underpinnings of Comedy Inc's prognoses have struck a receptive chord among thousands of saturnine, muddleheaded disorderly-types, at least insofar as this essay is concerned. I am hurt, furious, and embarrassed. Why am I hurt? Because if Comedy Inc is going to confuse, disorient, and disunify, then it should at least have the self-respect to remind itself of a few things: First, it has failed entirely to grasp the essence of my criticisms of it. And second, several things it has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of its that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how anyone who disagrees with it is ultimately backwards. Why am I furious? Because Comedy Inc does not merely detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity -- family, class, private associations. It does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. And why am I embarrassed? Because I can't follow Comedy Inc's pretzel logic. I do, however, know that it just keeps on saying, "We don't give a [expletive deleted] about you. We just want to appropriate sacred symbols for stinking, violent purposes."

In this land which has befriended soporific, pestiferous oafs, Comedy Inc has conspired, plotted, undermined, prostituted, and corrupted, and -- hiding to this hour behind the braver screen of brutish hoodlums -- dares to contrive and scheme the death of every principle that has protected it. There's one thing you can unequivocally say about Comedy Inc: It has a sense of humor. It was being a real comedian when it told us that its opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. We must fight for what is right. To do anything else, and I do mean anything else, is a complete waste of time. Call me old-fashioned, but Comedy Inc possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, it can't even spell or define "erudition," much less achieve it.

Comedy Inc will exploit the masses because it possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses scornful extortionists with lewd and uncontrollable rage. I have given this issue a great deal of thought, and I now have a strong conviction that this is not wild speculation. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented fact. What does Comedy Inc have to say about all of this? The answer, as expected, is nothing.

Comedy Inc's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only inane answers, disorganized resolutions to conflicts. It is apparent to me that Comedy Inc insists that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject.

Believe it or not, I can't let Comedy Inc feed us ever-larger doses of its lies and crackpot assumptions. That conclusion is not based on some sort of ungrateful philosophy or on Comedy Inc-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that the main dissensus between me and Comedy Inc is that I believe that Comedy Inc has lost what little credibility it once had. It, on the other hand, contends that hanging out with the most whiney fence-sitters you'll ever see is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience. Listen up: If it were up to Comedy Inc, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. The fact that Comedy Inc is penny wise and pound foolish is distressing, to say the least. All I'm trying to do here is indicate in a rough and approximate way the hate-filled tendencies that make Comedy Inc want to institutionalize sex discrimination by requiring different standards of protection and behavior for men and women. I can unmistakably suggest how Comedy Inc ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Comedy Inc itself.

Permitting the worst sorts of filthy nonentities there are to advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills is tantamount to suicide. So let Comedy Inc call me unbridled. I call it self-absorbed. Although the themes in Comedy Inc's stances are limited, Comedy Inc is completely gung-ho about ruffianism because it lacks more pressing soapbox issues. In short, Comedy Inc's sycophants would sooner ally with evil than oppose it. What you really need to do to be convinced of that, however, is to study the matter for yourself. I'll be happy to send you enough facts to get you started. Just write to me.


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