April 21, 2008

The Apatow Backlash Begins

... and Cracked.com is where it starts:

Things You Will Need:

A beloved failed TV show from which to pull your cast
A thorough knowledge of basic sexual slang (for help with this, see my other manual, “From Pearl Necklaces to Donkey Punches: the Eight Comedic Sexual Maneuvers”)
A disdain for continuity
An old High School yearbook from which to pull ideas and characters
A shitload of film to allow actors time to improvise (ie, “write the script”)
An understanding of improvisational comedy that entails two guys speaking in unconnected one-liners
Paul Rudd’s phone number
A giant bag of weed (usually Paul Rudd can provide this)

I still love Apatow's stuff- "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was GREAT- but in two years when everyone's sick of Judd, I'll remember this.

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 21, 2008 09:31 PM
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Dude, that backlash began awhile ago, when people started realizing that all his movies are the same. Usually funny, but it's telling the same joke over and over.

FWIW, in my 48 Hour Film Project screening, someone had a sexual maneuver called the "Shiny Salamander" or something weird like that. They even explained what it was.

Posted by: Jeremy at April 21, 2008 11:44 PM

Is the "slimy salamander" anything like "the dreaded Rear Admiral" ... just a name with no known associated act?

Posted by: LilB at April 23, 2008 09:44 PM

Or the "Venus Butterfly"?

Posted by: Dan at April 30, 2008 03:17 PM
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