well, i've got 45 minutes to do a blog post and i can't find a scanner so 3 pictures of pretty awesome and original somethings will be up before the end of the holidays.

events in my life:
-my uncle is still funny
-my Mum has another reason to not let me drink soft-drinks, apparently they will melt my bones...
-got a wii on Thursday, novelty gone
-can't find a scanner
-my cough's coming back...

OK, now onto the post about something original; "modern comedy, how we've fucked up".

Now, first off i'll say that comedy is comedy, it is designed to make us laugh, i'm not trying to say that modern comedy is un-funny, i just feel like it's shallow and unfullfilling.

in the golden days of comedy, there were great people such as Spike Milligan, Ronnie Barker, Hugh Laurie and even greater groups such as Monty Python, The Goodies, and many more...

Back then comedy had a broad range of uses, it was in long, linguistically fantastic sketches (see: the Two Ronnies), but also simple, short hard-hitting sketches (see: The Fruit In Season, by Spike Milligan). Comedy shows could go on for an hour, bringing joy to their viewers/listeners (radio plays were pretty awesome [and common] back then. (see: The Goon Show)). Jokes were smart and got you thinking, they left a lot to the audiences imagination, a joke was something you had to work at, it wasn't given to you on a platter.People had an average attention span of one and a half hours, pretty long for todays standards, but thats for another paragraph. Their long attention spans would give the comedians freedom to spend minutes intricately setting up for a punchline, they had a 'large canvas' to use...

But now, in our'21st century' comedy seems to have fallen in a heap, we're talented comedians are few and far between, almost anyone can be taught to do stand-up with good timing. But the one thing that gets to me most about this modern humour is that there is no substance, no thought. People used to put in gaps in their sketches/radio shows/routines, for the audience to understand and appreciate a joke. but now if you listen to the radio, almost every joke is just given to us, 'pre-cooked', we get hit one joke after another, so many punchlines that we must laugh at at least one. we get little satisfaction, just a laugh. The brilliant vocabulary that was used to a comedians advantage in the past has been replaced with swearing and cursing. Sketch shows now have average sketches of around 30 seconds, this time fits nicely within our fancy new modern average attention span of 10-15minutes. But some sketches are one and a half minutes, but they have to be cut up into multiple sections and spread out in our half-hour shows.

Plans just got delayed by around half-an hour. That gives me time to start drawing, but i doubt that scanning will be happening anytime soon.

"Nothing happened, but it happened suddenly"

OP out...