Sometimes I despise cinema. Don't get me wrong, if it was purely burning hatred I had for movies in general, I'd be writing about LeBron Sosa's top rankings in the National Fives District Attorney wiffleball drafts or whatever it is that goes on in those Sports things.
Pretty sure it's something like this.
But, since I obviously have no knowledge of anything pertaining to sports, I'll stick with movies, whatever lumps may come with it.
Allow me to back up a bit: I'm not a huge laugher. Those who know me might argue that I laugh just as much as any other human, but those are the kinds of laughs that you give the one guy you can't ever hear but he's smiling so you figure it's something funny and you give a quick chuckle so he'll get his odor soaked body away from you and go back to pretending to talk on his cell phone at the party you're at to make him look interesting. I call them - "Pity Scoffs." Now, I give these pity scoffs regularly, just so people don't think I'm a heartless entrail plunderer, and I do it to assure people that yes, they are funny, but not the kind of funny that makes me gut laugh.
You see, I have a very specific brand of humor, and very, very few people can get a genuinely huge laugh out of me. Nearly every comedy I see, I'll walk out of, saying- "Ah, yes, that joke about the husband thinking his wife was a transvestite goat was funny, and I appreciated it's humor with silent regards." And it's odd, because the kind of humor I usually use to entertain others is one that I don't find funny. Every time I've put on a comedic theatre performance people come up to me afterwards and ask how I keep a straight face. And I tell them it's because that's not the kind of humor that gets to me. And here's where I get to my point. Well, almost.
YouTube has been around since 2005 and although my humor has evolved, one thing hasn't- that freakin' site will always have something to make me laugh.
The problem with Hollywood is that, although formula's work, movies have become so formulaic that majorly, their humor is devoid of any risks or growth.
And thus, children, Adam Sandler took an acid dump
on the paying moviegoers of America.
The thing with Youtube is, since it's on an incredibly smaller scale, a larger influx of varying comedy is able to come through, and so many people eat that up. Hollywood is so afraid to take any risks with what may not please the majority of the public that they forget the movies that were so dang successful took those risks to begin with.
The hardest form of media I have ever laughed at consecutively is that of the comedy trio Ballon Shop on YouTube.
Gosh Crappin' dangitt these guys are funny. Now, if you ever watch their videos, chances are, you're either going to love the everloving Dart Juice out of them, or the humor is going to go way over your head. And that's not saying your stupid, it's saying they're a little... different.
Remember how I said earlier that I have a very specific brand of humor that is nearly impossible to get a genuine gut laugh out of me? These guys did not hit the nail on the head. They smashed the nail with a flaming diesel and buried under the carcasses of those not worthy too stand in their comedic glory. Something that Hollywood and T.V forgets a lot of the time is that humor can be subtle. Too often they forget this, and I like to call that, the Disney Channel Syndrome.
Disney Channel has the habit of picking up tween actors who seem to think that comedy comes from punching the joke with all of their might. There is never anything subtle about these jokes, and you always know exactly when the joke happens because the child mugs the camera like there's hope for future success and that freakin' laugh track explodes out of nowhere. Something like this:
(Jessie, a spunky, pigtail sporting tomboy walks in the room with a cactus)
JESSIE: Rico, where in the world did you put Jonathan's water dish?
RICO: Well, Jessie, a cactus can live without if, but I'd never tell anyway! WATER you gonna do about it?
(Laugh track goes off and an orphan somewhere dies)
JESSIE: Oh, Rico, I sure wish I would have (Mugs camera)
PLANTED this interrogation better!
(Crowd erupts in hysterical laughter and a puppy is hit by a truck.)
And though Disney Channel is the worst at this, Hollywood has it's own terrible version of it. I love BalloonShop because if a movie came out with humor identical to there's, I would see that crap at the London premier for whatever the cost. Balloon Shop has everything ranging from the most subtle humor I've seen to the craziest over the top stuff out there and it is BRILLIANT. There are so many YouTubers and Original Videos that would far exceed what cookie cut dingleberry treats pass off as comedy today, and it would set the standard for a new era and brand of comedy. Of course, it doesn't have to completely mirror this, because even that would be isolating the general public, but if Hollywood was just a little more willing to go out there with it's comedy, the world would be in better shape. Seriously. Watch this and tell me you didn't laugh, at least from how ridiculous it was.
Actually, don't tell me if you didn't. Because I don't care.
Well, that's all from me on this subject. Until then I'll just keep watching Hot Rod for my fix of satisfying humor. Until then, Live Long and Prosper.
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