Earth to Earth to America
Originally posted to: http://www.livejournal.com/users/marpow/ on [20 Nov 2005|08:44pm]
Earth to America is to serious political discourse as the Earth to America crowd adoring a Vietnamese Astronaut-quoting Leonardo DiCaprio is to not hilarious.
Several things became apparent while watching this awful show:
1. Entertainers should never, ever, try to engage anyone, ever, on any issue; any.
2. The Left is rarely as funny as Rick Mercer or Rob Corddry, and should not inject what is obviously an immense amount of money into any large scale production which, once again, fails to rise above the comic level of, oh, I don't know, the state of the world.
3. No one watching this show, who does not already hold the hard-to-believe political message(Um, global warming is...bad? happening?), will come away with either: a) a solid grasp of the issue, b) a feeling of not wasting however long this show will praddle on for, c) a face sore from laughing or a heart, lit anew with caring.
4. David Letterman's #1 in the Top Ten will never be as funny as the preceding nine.
5. Steve Martin is still really good at playing banjo, but will never top the discussive, radical political analysis of King Tut.
6. That I am confused by Ray Romano being allowed disastrously unfunny reign over the stage for far too long, while Eric Idle is forced to share the comedic stage with Tom Hanks.
7. Oddly enough, entertainers acting on fake news shows as journalists are genuinely more funny if they talk about politics; because, Lord knows, we're in a bad need of good satirists. However, entertainers on entertainment shows posing as a forum for a serious issue are drop-dead unfunny in their attempt to be funny. In addition, politicians posing as entertainers who then pose as fake journalists posing as real journalists interviewing fake people on a real issue in a phony context on a real show which is totally fake, are not funny.
8. I've repeated myself by using the word "unfunny" more than once - I regret nothing; furthermore, I would proceed to use it several more times in reference to this show, without a second thought.
9. The attempt to woo the 'layman republican' with a country music performance is actually really funny, if not slightly offensive to Republicans. Apparently TBS figured that the condescending concept of Daisy Does America was not enough. I can imagine the producers sitting around a long, polished oak table and having one of them blurt out: "But wait, how do we get republicans on board..?"
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Finally, and rampantly off topic, if I oppose anything as inhumane and pointless, it's the death penalty. Singapore is silly for engaging in the practice and I hope Canberra takes the death penalty-using country to the International Court of Justice.
But how hilarious is it that Amnesty International has rallied to the noble cause of protecting...an Australian drug trafficker?
I remember being in high school and being told by Amnesty's office that our local chapter could not hold a fundraiser for the homeless, because lo and behold, Amnesty International's mandate does not extend to the homeless.
Yet, apparently, it extends to drug traffickers - as long as, you see, it is done in the name of "human rights". It's sort of like PETA getting Pamela Anderson to whore herself out for the anti-fur movement, but weirder, and less hot.
Earth to America is to serious political discourse as the Earth to America crowd adoring a Vietnamese Astronaut-quoting Leonardo DiCaprio is to not hilarious.
Several things became apparent while watching this awful show:
1. Entertainers should never, ever, try to engage anyone, ever, on any issue; any.
2. The Left is rarely as funny as Rick Mercer or Rob Corddry, and should not inject what is obviously an immense amount of money into any large scale production which, once again, fails to rise above the comic level of, oh, I don't know, the state of the world.
3. No one watching this show, who does not already hold the hard-to-believe political message(Um, global warming is...bad? happening?), will come away with either: a) a solid grasp of the issue, b) a feeling of not wasting however long this show will praddle on for, c) a face sore from laughing or a heart, lit anew with caring.
4. David Letterman's #1 in the Top Ten will never be as funny as the preceding nine.
5. Steve Martin is still really good at playing banjo, but will never top the discussive, radical political analysis of King Tut.
6. That I am confused by Ray Romano being allowed disastrously unfunny reign over the stage for far too long, while Eric Idle is forced to share the comedic stage with Tom Hanks.
7. Oddly enough, entertainers acting on fake news shows as journalists are genuinely more funny if they talk about politics; because, Lord knows, we're in a bad need of good satirists. However, entertainers on entertainment shows posing as a forum for a serious issue are drop-dead unfunny in their attempt to be funny. In addition, politicians posing as entertainers who then pose as fake journalists posing as real journalists interviewing fake people on a real issue in a phony context on a real show which is totally fake, are not funny.
8. I've repeated myself by using the word "unfunny" more than once - I regret nothing; furthermore, I would proceed to use it several more times in reference to this show, without a second thought.
9. The attempt to woo the 'layman republican' with a country music performance is actually really funny, if not slightly offensive to Republicans. Apparently TBS figured that the condescending concept of Daisy Does America was not enough. I can imagine the producers sitting around a long, polished oak table and having one of them blurt out: "But wait, how do we get republicans on board..?"
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Finally, and rampantly off topic, if I oppose anything as inhumane and pointless, it's the death penalty. Singapore is silly for engaging in the practice and I hope Canberra takes the death penalty-using country to the International Court of Justice.
But how hilarious is it that Amnesty International has rallied to the noble cause of protecting...an Australian drug trafficker?
I remember being in high school and being told by Amnesty's office that our local chapter could not hold a fundraiser for the homeless, because lo and behold, Amnesty International's mandate does not extend to the homeless.
Yet, apparently, it extends to drug traffickers - as long as, you see, it is done in the name of "human rights". It's sort of like PETA getting Pamela Anderson to whore herself out for the anti-fur movement, but weirder, and less hot.
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