Archive for the ‘Comedy’ Category
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 |
When I say that I am a long-standing veteran of Saint Patrick’s Day festivities, I really mean it. I have been going out and partying on St. Pat’s most venerable of days since I was 19 years old. I’ve seen a lot of crazy things over the years, and I’ve become a much less crazy individual as the years go by. Being older and wiser now, I believe I’ve noticed that the funny Irish t-shirts people wear are a fair indicator of their own party-time motivations.
The huge majority of people at any St. Pat’s Day throw-down are not really Irish at all. These people are your average watered-down American mutts who may be 1/16th Irish somewhere far down the line…if they have any Irish blood at all. Not knowing anything about real Irish culture, they wear funny Irish t-shirts that border on insulting. It’s not really their fault. Blame American media, not their ignorance.
There are going to be lots of people at your Saint Patrick’s Day party who are there only to find someone “special”. Of course, when I say “special” I mean anyone who will pay them any amount of attention and who is drunk enough to go home with them at the end of the night. What is really great about these people is that they always seem to be wearing funny Irish t-shirts declaring their intent. Despite this, many of them will find a hapless victim to carouse until sobriety hits.
If you’re at a party or a bar on Saint Patrick’s Day, then it goes without saying that you are there to drink some alcohol and have fun. The people who are wearing funny Irish t-shirts that talk about getting drunk seems almost redundant. The reality is that these are the people who drink two or three times a week. Saint Patrick’s Day is just as good excuse as any to go out and get smashed.
The very last, and definitely not the least, group of St. Paddy’s Day revelers are the people wearing funny Irish t-shirts that speak of real heritage and history. These shirt have genuine Celtic words on them or reference real places or historical events. These are you true sons and daughters of Ireland. If they don’t have green blood running through their veins, then they at least have enough sense to honor the Irish. That makes them my favorite people, and I’ll buy them a beer every time.
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 |
Many an informative article has been written during the decades concerning the expenses and profits in the entertainment industry, no big secret is made of the bill for producing a major movie and as opposed to many other industries the success of a picture is publicly measured by it’s weekly takings.
It is just in present years however that we are getting a look into parallel indicators for TV shows, the cast of the hit US comedy ‘Friends’ became headlines in 2002 when they negotiated one million dollars apiece per episode showing us an insight as to the development cost of just one show and indirectly hinting at the likely profit that could be anticipated from producing short tv shows.
Are there really significant dissimilarities between US and English Comedy creation expenses?
Perhaps debatably the same if not superior in calibre the English Comedy attracts nowhere near the expenditure of it’s US peer. A standard English comedy runs in the region of two hundred thousand British Pounds (about $320k) per production in comparison to an estimate of $1.3 million for the US equivalent. Evidently the size of the market has a lot to do with this, the large budget US comedies have a great home market and in addition interest audiences through syndication to Canadian and British television while the smaller English comedy does not set well into the programming of US networks.
Viewership metrics for a comedy will closely influence the revenue created through advertising and product placement, it will likewise regulate the syndication discussions as the series enters more diverse distribution. TV comedies however, time and again book in the red during their first showing and show profit for their directors only when the Box set distributions begin, expected DVD profits are usually a central consideration when deciding if a sitcom is economically viable and should be given the go ahead to be made. This is of special consideration to smaller producers who do not benefit strongly from advertizement or product placement, as such Dvd earnings are of the upmost importance. Many English comedy series would not have been developed if the probable DVD revenue did not exist.
This is merely a brief overview of the multitude of different elements involved in establishing whether a series will be monetarily worthwhile or not, determining in advance these variables can sometimes be as much art as science, consider the revenue from the US Office (season 5) that generated $14 million in Box set money in it’s initial week of release and contrast this to the relatively meager $2.4 million delivered by the most watched sitcom in the US, Two and a Half Men (season 6), released at the same time… Comedy-nomics anyone??
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Monday, January 9th, 2012 |
Let us suppose for one moment that you are in the market for funny t-shirts. You are attending a “dirty t-shirt” party, and you’ve never been someone who has had an interest in buying silly t-shirts before. You have no clue where to begin. Well, the obvious place to start is the Internet. There are countless places to shop for clothes on the Internet, so surely there is a place to buy funny t-shirts somewhere on there, right? Where to begin? Well, doing typing “funny t-shirts” into a search engine will certainly get you some places to start.
When you search the Internet for funny t-shirts, you’re going to certainly be overwhelmed by how many options you have. There are simply too many to count, and you’ll never make it through them all. You need to pick one out that suits your needs and dive right in, or else you’ll go into information overload and never make a good selection. You can look through the first few funny t-shirts on several sites until you find one that suits your sense of humor. Now we have a good place to really start shopping.
With the torrent of new funny t-shirts being made every day, it might be hard to find the shirts of really good quality. A great way to discover which vendors are legit and which are not, is by looking for a customer review. You can do this by a simple search in Google, or by finding that company’s social network through one of the many social bookmarking services available online. If a company does not have a good report with their customers in this day and age of mass communication, then you have found a major red flag.
The next thing you should do, if time permits, is to buy just one shirt. If you spend a lot of money on several funny t-shirts, then you won’t have the cash to buy from somewhere else if your shopping experience turns sour. You will also have the opportunity to see how smoothly their operation works. How fast you get your order and the worth of that product when it arrives is very important to any consumer. This way, you can scout the company out before you dedicate yourself to further purchases.
If a company treats you badly or you are not happy with the quality of your new funny t-shirts, make sure you leave a customer review somewhere on the Internet. Mention the company’s name and leave a thorough, but honest review of the company so that others will not fall into the same trap that you have. The Internet may thrive on anonymity, but that doesn’t mean that faceless companies should get away with mistreating customers.
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011 |
Humor is a one of the precious things in life that doesn’t cost and can make your day. You can see that humor in San Antonio is very popular, because the atmosphere there is very positive and people you see on the streets mostly have smiles on their faces. It is important to emphasize the meaning of a smile, because the old saying says that a smile is the cure.
There will rarely be a situation in which young children and adults will like the same humor, because humor depends on the taste of people for it and their age, but that is already known and very logic. So there are a lot of ways in which humor can be expressed because of those age and preferential differences. Humor is divided into many kind of it and some of the kinds of humor are: irony, satire, farce, parody, slapstick humor and many many more.
There are a lot of ways to let’s say, broadcast, humor all over San Antonio. It can be done by commercials on television, that always have a whiff of humor so they can make the people watch them and in that way buy the product that is on the commercial. It can also be broadcasted on television shows, movies, comedy hours and the results show that most of the viewers watch the funny things on television.
Another way of broadcasting is the radio in San Antonio, it can make a station which will only consist of humorous programs all day, every day. There can also be bars opened in San Antonio that can hire stand-up comedians to entertain the people in the bar and that will make a great place for people to go out.
From all of these words we can see how blessed the City of San Antonio is with lots of humor within its population.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 |
I’m trying to look for some really good comedy movies so I would like to see what others think!
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