yeah. saw "Bad Taste" when it came out, as a teenager, and loved it, which is why i was a bit surprised when i heard he was going to do LotR. he was David Cronenberg with punchlines, y'know?

i also remember thinking, wow, Derek put on a few pounds, eh? i guess Dereks really don't run... but it suits him well. like Kevin Smith, or Tom Selleck with a mustache. just looks goofy without it.

nice little shoutout to Wellington there, too! @berticus just got a chubby.

So, a guy walks into a bar with a chainsaw. The customers beat the shit out of him....

Yeah... still workin' on the punchline.

standing with Marine on this one. For one : PACING. So much time wasted on meaningless scenes that did nothing but force us to watch... nothing. There is a mild form of comedy here but it takes so long to get anything done by the time the so called punchline hits it's to frustrating to matter.

>> ^papple:

Punchline title is ruinous.


Oh well, I posted it for how he says it not that he says it.

Punchline title is ruinous.

^agreed, the ginch shot is the perfect punchline.

What's with the stupid sound effects soundtrack? If it's a punchline I didn't get it. Also Salvador Dali's name gets stamped on this all the time as if he was behind the camera half of the time when actually his contribution wasn't all that much, from what I understand. He and the "other guy" Luis Buñuel talked about putting some of their bizarre dreams on film. And Dali played one of priests getting dragged along the floor, that's about it.

Check out Buñuel's "Viridiana" and "Los Olvidados". Film students should aspire to those, not this pre-Tarantino self-indulgent novelty.

>> ^legacy0100:

lol Cenk looks SOOOO pissed LOL LOL


Yeah, who could possibly be offended by politicians saying that votes from the public don't matter. In the "greatest" country in the world, dedicated to democracy and freedom...

There's a joke somewhere in there, but if I were an American I don't think I'd be laughing at the punchline...

Sorry but I will always expect a punchline to his music since he put so much of it into Family Guy.

>> ^artician:

"He's a man-child"
I heard an interview with Tracy Morgan on NPR where he described the time he came home and found his bed-ridden father on the ground floor of their apartment building, in winter, with bare feet, and Tracy Morgan had to carry him like a child up 6 flights of stairs to their apartment, because his father was senile and too confused to know what was going on.
After telling that story on air, he broke down in tears because it was too much for him to talk about.
Some people have to be more of an adult than all of us put together before they can have the luxury of becoming children.


Quite true of all comedians in general. They tend to have a great insight into humanity, politicians, social issues, and even the biggest of questions such as religion, love, and almost all philosophical domains.

It stems in almost every case from the hardships they have had pressed upon them and their underlying conditions that allow an understanding that binds the perceptions of reality upon their mind an already learned, or easily empathized, lesson that can easily be learned and overcome. As to why they become masters of laughter due to their doomed pasts, I'm not entirely sure. (I know they would be able to empathize a great deal better than others; perhaps due to their depressive states their minds have given them easily attained "happy comebacks" to depressive thoughts in their own minds--partial guess only though...)

Comedians tend to offer a quick way to look at an issue with contrast, so much so that it may make you uncomfortable. But, the key thing a comedian does is that they give you a phrase (the punchline) that allows your mind to mentally take control of the topic of discussion allowing you to beat it, easily.

From there, psychologically it's still a little shady, but it seems to stay in line with what I said. Of course there are other ways to make us laugh, but it typically tends to lend credence to the fact that you have mastered or conquered something, mentally, which has a profound affect over us. Fear is also another area where this crops up and maybe for the same reason.

Great comedians one and all seem to all have a dark past or hardships; but their ability to empathize seems to be a strong core attribute. If anyone knows of a good book on the topic: comedians and their past versus the psychological reasoning as to why they are so good at what they do; please, leave a comment with a link to the book or the name of it.

Great final punchline by Colbert!

The punchline SLAYED me. Still wiping away the tears.

Notice how he tries to provoke a precise dollar amount so that he can use it to somehow segue into the lame 'job creator' line? Then after a couple minutes - after it's clear they are not going to fall for the ploy - he just awkwardly blurts out the punchline.

No better than an 80's drug hysteria video, and even on that level it fails. Does anyone really give a crap about Family Guy characters? They're all one-dimensional punchlines.

The writers were likely warned by the network not to make shroomin' appear to be enjoyable, just like no TV show depicts a successful professional kicking back with some weed.

What do men do when we crash our partners car?

There is a sexist punchline somewhere. I'm too fucking classy to find it. Have fun.