*isdupeof=http://videosift.com/video/One-Liner-Comedian-Chris-Turner-Hilarious-Deadpan

I THOUGHT I'd seen this before ... sorry J

Sorry dude, beat ya to the punch(line)!

http://videosift.com/video/One-Liner-Comedian-Chris-Turner-Hilarious-Deadpan

I'd appreciate it if anyone who sees this comment could do the dupeof thing.

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The resemblance is a lot more than slight. And it's not just the delivery. No, Wright wasn't the first to do deadpan one-liners, but what he did/does is original. This, not so much.

Sorry to hear that your experience of comedy is so limited that any slight resemblance of one comic to another prevents you from appreciating them.

Steven Wright wasn't the first deadpan one liner either!

Steven Wright - One Liners has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims on that post.

Requisite one-liner...

I play with myself all the time.

My bad on D1 dungeons.

There will always be cookie-cutter builds. And besides, when you're talking about 'the' build, you're talking about the ideal items to have, the vast majority of people will never get there. Meanwhile, the options for 'best with what you have' varied heaps. I played D3 through with a Monk, and the entire time, the only stats that felt worthwhile chasing were damage, dexterity and vitality.

I'm not saying it didn't have dark elements, but vast portions of the story, dialogue and tone, particularly after Act 1 (which I thought was best part of the game), where juvenile and completely off for a Diablo game. I mean for christ sake, the game delved into damsel in distress territory multiple times. Anyway posted this elsewhere, going to just copy paste:

1. Story tone is horribly off for a Diablo game. Act 1, the tone is almost that right mix of dark, macabre & grim horror albeit with overly colourful graphics. Then, in Act 2 and especially 3/4 the game becomes flat out goofy. It's almost like different studios designed the two parts. Regardless, it's obvious the whole gothic, cheesy but serious tone of previously Diablo games has been thoroughly ditched.

It becomes obvious there is a reason that most of the prime evils were mostly mute & why your characters was kept to making sarcastic remarks and one liners in D2. Diablo beretting you with grating "if it wasn't for your meddling kids" dialogue completely ruins the game's tone. Overall the mix of occasional ultra-violence and the overt colourfulness and childish NPC banter gives it an almost surreal and contradictory theme. As if a design house was of two minds, fighting over dominance over the franchise's feel.

There was just no need to muck with what was not broken to the point that it's hard for me to NOT imagine Activision sitting behind the developers dictating them how well the WoW tone sits with target demographics. There is nothing wrong with WoW existing in its own space with it's own unique identity. There's a problem with creative variety between Blizzard games becoming non-existent because they've caught on to what sells best and decided to stick to that.

As for launch issues, I didn't play D2 at launch, but that's not what really bugs me. It is abundantly obvious though that foisting online-only is part of the reason they're having so many launch issues.

Here's my full bitch session - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149543659

>> ^mentality:

>> ^RedSky:
@mentality
D2 felt like a huge leap on D1. Randomized dungeons, huge increase in class and especially item variety, introduction of a vast swathe of new environments. In comparison critically looking at D3, while it does have an expanded skills system, at the end of a prodigious 11 year development cycle, D3 has far less item variety at launch, and arguably simplified gameplay mechanics on a number of levels.
Personally, I happen to also think the story is a let down, the tone of the game has been inappropriately been made cartoonish (art design non-withstanding).

D1 had randomized dungeons. Item variety in D2 was very limited because there often was one set of unique item that was 'THE' item for a specific build. The expanded environments in D2 were also very cartoony compared to the dungeons of D1, and calling D3 cartoonish with levels like the Halls of Agony is outright ridiculous.
The fact of the matter is that the grass is always greener, and we all look at the past with rose colored glasses. History repeats itself, but it seems like few people remember all the problems, controversy and bitching surrounding Diablo 2's launch.

*For the great one-liner at the end.... for cop-haters and cop-lovers alike.

I haven't seen either show [yet] but I didn't need to to enjoy this parody very much ... a few laugh out loud one liners and the blooper at the end made me smile ... wide ... heehee

That would be the shotgun blast of obligatory one-liners for that vid?
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Who wear short shorts?

Those are pretty perky boobs

Is she wearing a tie?

Maybe it's a medical condition and she can't button up her shirt?

I wonder which part of her job does she take more seriously, a weather reporter or an eye candy?

Does the carpet match the drapes?

Perhaps - but he can still come up with one-liners like this one:

Jackson was taking Propofol to sleep...which is like doing chemotherapy because you're tired of shaving your head.
>> ^spoco2:

Wow, Robin is really starting to look/sound old now.

Serious Sam was a good game. Serious Sam 2 was a horribad impression of some other game. With number 3, it looks like at least they've figured out what was good about the original (ie. a million enemies, and shooting them) and are bringing the good gameplay ideas back.

But the writing needs serious help. It's funny; they owe much of their success to good comedy writing. Not in their game, but by Eric Wolpaw, who wrote about it on OldManMurray. Eric would later go on to write for Portal, and help create probably the best games of the last decade.

Do you think Valve regrets hiring Eric? And yet, other game companies haven't figured this out. If you want to do comedy in a game, hire someone who's proven successful at doing comedy.

The one-liners in this video are sad crap. Yes, I understand that they're supposed to be over-the-top. That's the problem: they aren't, and they aren't funny.

Without any digging, you can see Wolpaw had plenty of contemporaries that are still around, still being funny, and still available for hire. Seanbaby is slumming it at Cracked. Lowtax has to be bored over at SomethingAwful. Hell, there are tons of great writers at SA who'd be great for a comedy video game. I don't think it would take crazy money to get Yahtzee (or one of the other current generation) doing game writing either.

Why aren't they being picked up by someone? How do you still get crap like this in a high budget title?

>> ^spoco2:

I'm not sure I like the idea either, as I like the comments on videos being there for all to see no matter when you come to a video. Having an IM which may make people put their funny little one liners into that rather than for all to see reduces the value of the comments I think.
Only my thoughts of course, and it may prove to be a huge boon... who can tell?


I think it's really a much different experience than commenting. The few times I've used it, it's been a personal conversation with a lot of back and forth, not really ever any witty one-liners that would work as a standalone comment.

I'm not sure I like the idea either, as I like the comments on videos being there for all to see no matter when you come to a video. Having an IM which may make people put their funny little one liners into that rather than for all to see reduces the value of the comments I think.

Only my thoughts of course, and it may prove to be a huge boon... who can tell?