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Immoral Tales (1973)
Immoral Tales (1973)
1973 | Drama, Romance
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"The bible for visual storytelling for me. The first sketch freely jumps between points of view that forfeits logic for movement. Allows the viewer the perfect opportunity to entirely inhabit the role of voyeur. Content plays just for our most prurient sensors."

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Ross (3282 KP) rated Stardust by Willie Nelson in Music

May 29, 2020  
Stardust by Willie Nelson
Stardust by Willie Nelson
1978 | Country
7
6.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Rating
Rolling Stone's 260th greatest album of all time
Mediocre country-lite cover versions. Some familiar (All of Me, Unchained Melody), some not. Generally quite a sombre feel to the album, especially in the likes of Don't Get Around Much Any More. Also Nelson's way over over-pronouncing "s" sounds gets annoying quickly and reminds me of this character from Scottish sketch show Chewin The Fat:
  
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Amber (38 KP) rated Studio C in TV

Jan 15, 2018 (Updated Jan 15, 2018)  
Studio C
Studio C
2012 | Comedy, Family
10
8.0 (7 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Clean comedy (0 more)
Only 30 minutes ? (0 more)
Fun for the whole family!
Our family crowds around the TV in anticipation of the newest episode of clean sketch comedy. It’s something we can all enjoy together and go back to referenceand laugh about during the week. I love seeing my kids go back to act out the skits themselves. I love some of the repeat characters and that the cast stays up-to-date on current trends. Great show!
  
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Chad (8 KP) Jan 15, 2018

What a great Show! Clean, funny and entertaining!

You cant do that on television
You cant do that on television
1979 | Comedy
9
8.1 (9 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Green slime (5 more)
Barth
Moose
Alanis moresette
Fatal attraction
I don't know
Classic 80s childrens sketch show one of favorites . What other kids show would dump Green slime and water by saying certain words water and I don't know my favourite character was Barth who run a burger joint problem was u weren't whathere was in the burger. Also it started alanis moresette career. Plus there's a clip of the show at the beginning of fatal attraction thumbs up
  
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Phil Leader (619 KP) rated Rag Doll in Books

Nov 25, 2019  
Rag Doll
Rag Doll
Rebecca Scarberry | 2012 | Crime, Erotica, Mystery
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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On a family holiday Jeremy takes his son out for the day. His marriage isn't doing too well and he's been having an affair, which triggers a sequence of events when his son finds something unexpected...

Rag Doll is a short story that plays with the reader as much as with the characters, in the same way a cat will play with an unfortunate mouse. This is a quick read but Scarberry uses the format well, in essence providing a sketch of the story and getting the reader to fill in the details.

Hard to say more without giving anything away. But definitely worth a read. Very thought provoking.
  
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Awkwafina recommended Best in Show (2000) in Movies (curated)

 
Best in Show (2000)
Best in Show (2000)
2000 | Comedy

"It comes down to my specific brand of comedy – I really enjoy comedy that takes things to different places. Best in Show had already been out when I saw it, and it was the first improv sketch film I saw – it was my first mockumentary. And I noticed that the way that they do it is just so amazing. I was in love with Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, who are amazing in A Mighty Wind as well. But Best in Show is so good because it was so evocative of a time and a place, this dog show that goes on, and I’d never seen, like I said, a mockumentary, I’d never seen improv."

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Bo Selecta
Bo Selecta
2002 | Comedy
7
6.4 (18 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Great character/celebrity skits/parodys (0 more)
Occasionally too crude (0 more)
Bo selecta
Obsessive fan Avid Merrion, aided by the Bear and rubber masked celebrities, hosts his series from the squalor of his bedroom, guiding viewers through an eclectic mix of celebrity stories, interviews and gossip in his unique style.
First episode date: 6 September 2002
Final episode date: 18 December 2009
Program creator: Leigh Francis
Network: Channel 4
Spin-off: A Bear's Tail
Bo Selecta! is a British 'adult' television sketch show written and performed by Leigh Francis (avid merrion/keith lemon) that lampoons popular culture and is known for its often surreal, abstract toilet humour.
No. of series: 5
No. of episodes: 45
Original release: 6 September 2002 – 18 December 2009
Executive producer(s): Spencer Millman &
Keith Lemon
  
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
1983 | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Story: The Meaning of Life is a series of different ideas of the meaning of life from point of views, we enter into different class, different religions and different careers. Each chapter connects to the previous which adds to the bigger point in the comedy behind just what is being poked fun at.

 

Thoughts on The Meaning of Life

 

Story – With this being a series of sketches it doesn’t make it difficult to talk about the story, we have so many different mini stories which are clearly put together to show the different stages of life, from birth to death as the search for the meaning of life is put together. Most of the sketches generally miss which end up feeling flat as they just don’t build up to the moment of comedy required, it has also ended up feeling very dated with the way it handles everything in a not so subtle manor.

Comedy – The comedy in this film is all about taste, if you are not a fan of the Monty Python team, you won’t enjoy the comedy through the film, bit like myself. If you are a fan you will get to laugh more.

Settings – The film takes us to multiply locations for each sketches, each will become clear for the message trying to be told.


Scene of the Movie – Catholic and Protestants

That Moment That Annoyed Me – Most of the comedy misses.

Final Thoughts – This is a sketch movie that tries to play through important moments in history and only feels too forced for anything to really be anything special.

 

Overall: Sketch show comedy.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The War Game in TV

Sep 14, 2019 (Updated Sep 15, 2019)  
The War Game
The War Game
1965 | Documentary, Drama, War
7
6.8 (5 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Time and its own successors have robbed Peter Watkins' famously embargoed docu-drama of some of its power - it does seem to be set in another world, and to the modern viewer the form of the piece occasionally resembles a Monty Python sketch of a particularly black kind. It is 1966, and escalation in Vietnam leads to the outbreak of full-scale nuclear war; millions die, the survivors are left traumatised, and society crumbles in the aftermath.

Not as utterly horrible as Threads (itself inspired by The War Game), but still amazingly bleak, and given extra power by the juxtaposition of firestorms, depictions of radiation sickness, food riots, etc, with absurd contributions drawn from the actual words of 'experts', the government, and so on. Looking at this film you do feel slightly astonished that the world lasted as well as it did; perhaps this film played a small part in that.
  
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Nick Kroll recommended Wayne's World (1992) in Movies (curated)

 
Wayne's World (1992)
Wayne's World (1992)
1992 | Comedy

"I watched [it] just about every day growing up. In like seventh or eighth grade every day after school, my friend Andrew and I would watch Wayne’s World. And I think it’s a great example of a sketch effectively turned into a movie and a story that really works with a good journey. Not easily accomplished but such a good journey. And I’m drawn to it because I watched Saturday Night Live growing up, but also I think the duo of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, who are both from the same world and yet are such different guys. You know, the sort of confidence and leadership of Wayne and then the understated kind of genius of Garth: very meta and self-aware, which at that time wasn’t all over TV and film yet. It’s like the cross promotion for Pepsi and Advil and all that kind of stuff wasn’t overly present yet, and I think he really nailed it."

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