What happened to funny?

So the other day, I started watching “Whitney.”  This show airs at 8PM on NBC and is supposed to be a new “hit”  Anyway, the whole show was about Masturbating!  It was not very funny and all I could think  was: who is watching this at 8PM?

Then there was “Are You There Chelsea?”  Also on NBC at 8:30PM.  I saw about 5 minutes in which the heroine spoke about how she couldn’t be with the bartender at her job because they both  wanted to be on top.  I couldn’t even finish watching the show.  NOT FUNNY!!!

Also, rather disturbing that these shows feel that sexual acts are inherently funny and suitable to be aired at such an early time.  Is every writer in Hollywood on drugs, or do they really think that sex is the only thing that people find funny?

Now, recently “Saturday Night Live” re-aired one of their classic Christmas skits with Alec Baldwin”  “Delicious Dish” aka “Schweddy Balls.”  This entire parody of NPR is laden with sexual innuendo, but only for an older audience.  A child would not really understand that everything said had a double meaning.  Dopey, yet funny and also safe to air at 8PM. I would also like to point out that it is from 1998! 

Move on people!!

 

Random Craziness

What’s wrong with this?  “Never having any children, her affairs were…” NBC News.

Okay,  I know that children can be the result of an affair, but I didn’t know affairs themselves were capable of live birth.

Memo to C. Camp:  The single form of candelabra is candelabrum, your hero could not have picked up a “single candelabra.”  That is like saying “He ate his breakfast with a single forks.”  A black ball gown?  Really?  Was your heroine in secret mourning?

Spelling or Editing?

Really Ms. Long:  The entire house party ate breakfast every morning in the kitchen?  First of all, nineteenth century kitchens were not used for meals, not even by the staff.  There would not have been room.   Second of all, half of those aristocrats barely knew where their kitchens were.  They would have eaten in the breakfast room or even dining room. 

“Sniffing is not aloud!” Did you actually mean “allowed” perhaps?   Or is it possible that Ian really meant that sniffing is silent?

 

What’s Ringing????

“I am just hearing about this now.  I want to ring Simon’s neck!”    Really, he wants to put a ring on someone’s neck? Is that a new Hollywood fad?  Is it just possible that he wanted to wring Simon’s neck?

Really, Newsday? Editing by Spellcheck?  Or is it that your reporter really didn’t know the difference?  I hope not, print media has enough problems without adding bad spelling to the list.

News and Entertainment Questions

NBC News:  “Now that he’s no longer facing criminal charges, Alvarez’s attorney plans to file…”  His attorney was facing criminal charges?  If I was Alvarez, I’d find a new one.

E.T.:  “Now separated, the audience will see them again…”  If they’re separated, how are they one audience?

E.T. (again) : “From performing on stage to playing field hockey, the magazine shows…” Wow, that’s some versatile magazine; mine tend to just stay on the table with their friends.  I wonder if the subscribers have to pay more for all that action?

Extra:  “With a $2.2M price slash, Nic Cage…”  Gee, Nic Cage was marked down?  What was his original price?

Where’s the research?

From Wikipedia:  “Bull”, meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century^[1], while the term “bullshit” has been used as early as 1915 in American slang,^[2] and came into popular usage only during World War II. The word “bull” itself may have derived from the Old French boul meaning “fraud.

Which means, AB, not a term used in 1819.  And a hero named Carter.  Really????  Why not “Phoenix” ?  At least people in the 19th century would have been familiar with what a phoenix was.  To them, calling someone “Carter” would probably be like naming someone “Elevator” today.

Does anyone edit these books?  Anyone????

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy…..

Random Commercialspeak

“Pete, as kids, I always looked up to you.”

Really?  He was two people?  Then why didn’t he say “we always looked up to you.”???

New Movie

“Opening March 18th, Matthew plays a lawyer defending bad boy Ryan Phillipe”

Really?  Matthew is opening March 18th?  Sounds kind of painful to me.

Newswriters

Hello Campers:

Favorite quote of the day:”…and at a price of $500, she’s still smiling.”

Really, is she pleased that she is worth $500 dollars?  Pretty cheap if you ask me.  If I only had $500 to my name, I would not find it something to smile about.  Or maybe she only has $200 and is smiling because someone thinks she has more than that????

Ladybird, Ladybird

Note to VK:   Calling a lady friend a “Ladybird” in Regency England was NOT something a gentleman would do.  It is the equivalent of someone calling their  friend a ” Hooker” today.  Yet, in the same volume, JB used the term correctly!

Zebra (non)editors strike again!