In fairness, beagle probably tastes better than ham.

The fuck is an Easter beagle? We usually had ham. That’s some sick, twisted nonsense. 

Landis is an egotistical frat-boy, fail-up director. Murphy is a tyrannical “I’m greater than Chaplin” narcissist actor. Of course they’re going to butt heads. The product of their feud was so outrageous it became memorable only because it pushed the bounds of decency and comedy. Nostalgia aside, the films were a…

I’d been familiar with it, but I never actually saw Animal House until about six or seven years ago. Watching it, I could understand why it had been such a big hit when it came out, but it absolutely did not click with me at all.

Trading Places has a lot of funny parts, but it really does lose its way, especially towards the end.

I’ve enjoyed Eddie Murphy on SNL, but his movies are all crap. They are like SNL skits stretched out for 2 hours.

As it happens, last night I watched Coming to America (the original) for the first time. Growing up in the 80's, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan and can probably still recite most of Delirious, but somehow I’d never seen Murphy as Prince Akeem.

You want me to be Billy Ray Valentine when he invites everyone over to celebrate his good fortune, but instead I’m Billy Ray Valentine yelling at everyone to get the hell out of his house and stop messing with his stuff!

Granted, I haven’t seen it in a while, but I’m disrespecting it because my recollection is that it’s kind of wan and lame. It feels like the first big-ticket Landis movie where if it had come earlier in his career, he probably wouldn’t have gotten so big. 

After drinking too much beer yesterday, this was one of the interwebs & txts engagements was involved in that don’t remember. Am sorta relieved cause was not too bad etc :-) Hate waking up & wondering what venom I spewed forth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wish hadn’t used “FU” though. Okay, Over/Out.

I’ve mostly come to terms with the end of Daft Punk and decided to move on in my tour of my youth. Because YouTube now knows everything about me Blur showed up pretty quickly.

One of my good friends was shopping in Paris, it was for work, at a snotty high end shop. Usually they’re pretty uppity and aloof about things, the news rolled in about the Twin Towers falling and the immediately changed their tone and asked if she wanted water or even a drink. If they could get her a car back to her…

I did the same thing with my gf who thinks Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I told her that Eyes Wide Shut is also a christmas movie as well and that we’ll be watching that with her family. 

All it takes to be funny is to retweet a joke, change two words, then send it back into the ether.

Next year you can expect the announcement of the origins movie for M, the Moneypenny cartoon, and four to eight tv series including the Leiter spinoff and the Auric prequel, and the first cinema adaptation of James Bond Junior. 

/full disclosure

Sweet jeebus. Who cares?

Yeah, the main takeaway here is that a lot of people are bad at comedy. Most of these are people assuming that an absurdist punchline has to “mean something” or be a reference. Because you know what’s always hilarious? References to things people recognize.

A few are interesting but mostly it frustrated me at how unfunny people make things by overthinking them.