The Importance of Cucumber Sandwiches
It is our memory of the feelings in a given situation that our survival system uses to decide about any given current situation. Those feelings keep us out of harm, or lead us back to ecstasy.
Mickey Hadick
The Trouble with MacGruber
I went to see “MacGruber”, the recent movie that spoofs the 80s icon TV show “MacGyver”, and hated it. It was deeply flawed. It was almost to the point of my wanting to gouge my eyes out, but not quite that bad. I did walk out because I didn’t give a rat’s ass how it … Read more
Me Write Funny
…you get to kill people off, but crack a bunch of jokes along the way, rather in the way that Die Hard is a much better Hamlet than Hamlet was.
High Concept in Film
To describe all that in a single sentence is the Zen riddle of a lifetime.
Steve Kaplan, Comedian Extraordinaire
During Kaplan’s Comedy Intensive, Steve breaks down scenes from movies–those that work and those that don’t– and together with the class he discusses ways in which the tools might have helped the funny bits work in the situation. What he generally believes to be wrong in most romantic comedies is that they portray beautiful people doing foolish things which have little hope of helping their situation.