I could have SWORN I posted this before, but apparently I did not. Maybe we just had a long conversation about it, and the fact that Kathy Griffin went nuts. So thank you for the suggestion, Slumbrew!
Bobcat put this movie together, he was the director, writer and star. He had to partially bankroll it too, and he got his friends to be in it. How many famous comedians can you spot? Total budget was an insanely low $1.4 million. He did not even clear $115,000 on release. Ouch. Time has been kind to this film though, and it has become somewhat of a cult classic.
Bobcat based the characters on the drugged up comedy club scene he had come from. Honestly I can’t even imagine how bad it must have been back then. It was Shakes the Clown every day. So keep that in mind while watching this, it will be dark and painful in spots. I think audiences expected something non-stop funny from the funny man, and Bobcat did not deliver that, hence a lot of hate went towards this film. To this day people hate it. Maybe you hate it, I suppose I will find out in the comments!
This movie does have Julie Brown in it, which made me go see anything back then! Before this she was in such classics as Earth Girls are Easy and Spirit of ’76.
So what’s it about, should you have never seen it? Clowns! Alcoholism! Murder! Addiction! Psychosis! Really that’s all you need to know if you haven’t seen this, just go in blind. It’s a movie that would have done much better on the small theater circuit nowadays.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, the schedule gets flexible. There are a ton of new movies on Tubi and many of them are ones I have wanted to show for a while. Whichever of these movies that is still available next week gets shown:
- Dick Dynamite: 1944: Over the top war movie which insults every possible group. Love it.
- Werewolves Within: I could stare at Milana Vayntrub all day.
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey: One of the first films made when the copyright expired.
Exciting! So many new films to choose from. If those stay up for a month, they will all be posted with breaks for the usual B movies in between rounds of new films. I have some vintage spy films, kung fu and some uncategorizable filth. See you next week!
Bonus Content!
Nice short film about Strontium Dog from 2000AD. Fantastic fan film. Better that 2000AD ever did.
You should know by now that when I provide a music link, you should run.
So what’s it about, should you have never seen it? Clowns! Alcoholism! Murder! Addiction! Psychosis! Really that’s all you need to know if you haven’t seen this, just go in blind. It’s a movie that would have done much better on the small theater circuit nowadays.
I’ll just dive in blind.
I could stare at Milana Vayntrub all day.
#metoo
First clown. The hickey on her boob is a nice touch.
You mean America’s Mom, Mrs. Brady?
I’ve watched this once. I don’t believe I was sober. Can’t be talked into watching it again.
In other news, the Bee has reached perfection. Yup, I’m dead.
I provided a special short film, just for you.
LOL.
Funny how betting and sports have become blurred. They fucking sponsor teams now.
Freakonomics had an interesting chapter on proving with statistical methods how sumo wrestling is rigged. Horse racing is fixed too. Whoever has the best drugs wins.
Isn’t that all athletes and sports…?
QUIET, YOU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbbmJNvuGQ
Ugh not that shit again.
That is another item where I parted company with those freaks.
I don’t wanna watch the battle of the best drugs.
“It just fits the occasion too perfectly,” said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. “This allows Pete Rose to finally be enshrined in the Hall of Fame while depriving him of enjoying the experience, and benefits Major League Baseball financially. It’s a win-win.”
I remember vaguely the congressional hearings about steroids in baseball, and 5th grader me lost most of my respect for the US government as a result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJpE_aA80-w
The Sandlot is still a pretty good movie though. Even I liked it as a kid. My gal pal at DLI loved it. It seems like many girls see that movie as a crystal ball into what it’s like to be a boy.
Cuz it’s a fantastic film. The flick, without ever too much fuss, knows what it is and is trying to be, and entertainingly nail it. Yeah, I’m biased cuz I played ball from about 4 to 13. I was a late-bloomer and was nowhere *near* big enough to play with my peers after that, really, but I was then focused on other sports and wasn’t concerned.
Such a fucking fun movie. I totally see girls being into it from a completely different angle.
Big Ire of mine, concerning modern parenting: Kids today have *zero* unsupervised peer time. They never have time to practice, and kinda try to ‘figure out,’ how social and personal interaction ‘works.’ They always have some adult leading ’em around. Reminds me a lot of Korea, with high schoolers having 3-4 private academies they see each week after public schooling.
Same vein as another Great Ire: Kids don’t ever get *dirty.* Everything is sanitized and *everything* is ICKY(!). So.. their immune systems are purposefully kept ignorant of the life surrounding ’em. Same overlapping ideas, really. (‘Conserving’ physical purity, as *well* as conserving the Correct Thoughts only children’s elders are allowed to vet and permission.
Fun! I’m *very* good at getting injured, but I do not get sick. I honestly can’t remember the last time I was. I think when I get casual sniffles, that’s when many others would get legitimately sick.
Not really – I can’t stand him.
Not a fan of Julie Brown, either. I think I’ll pass on this one. 😑
OTOH as of this morning I have been cleared to return to work full-time after a year of disability so I think I will drink myself stupid to celebrate. 😃
I am so excited to earn a real paycheck again, I can’t even.
This is good news. I think because I’m wondering if my sarcasm detector is broken.
No sarc. 50% of my regular pay sucks.
Well then celebrate!
On it!
*hic*
Woah! I didn’t know that was your recent predicament.
That’s a fucking shitty year ya just went through. *fist bump* Go celebrate. That spell is over, and time for that dreadful psychological burden to be l̵i̵f̵t̵e̵d̵ deported.
Congrats, man. Take it to the hoop.
Wonderful news. I drink cheap rum now for your future health and happiness.
narrator: doctor said last month that Derpy’s liver is working overtime and will blow a gasket at some point
I must have liver like bull because doc said my liver (and kidneys) are “functioning normally”. I get blood tested all the time so I’m sure if something was amiss I’d know it.
OTOOH I have to wait another six weeks before I can begin fitting some dentures so it’s still a lot of gumming mashed potatoes and soup.
It is amazing how disgusting most food is when you can’t chew it. This week I thought I couldn’t go wrong with ground beef.
I was wrong.
Hey, rhy, glad to hear you are doing well.
🙂
Getting there. I hope work doesn’t mind me taking a day off right away because I have to go back to NYC in June for more jabs and tests. Hopefully the last for a while.
Congratulations on getting better and getting back to work!
Etu, Rhywun? Well, enjoy the bonus short film. Next week it’s all new content.
My favorite moment of comedy from Bobcat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv5eit5PFF4
I remember the first time I saw him do stand up. I genuinely believed he was emotionally disturbed.
Pretty much every comedian I met on the Chicago open mic scene was a drunk or a pothead, and many did harder stuff. There was a promising young comedian I was acquainted with named Dan Ronan.. He died of a heroin overdose.
RIP, Dan. Gone but not forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8peyDxadxU
I performed at many the same open mics as Dan and Joe Kwaczala, the producer of the video above.
I should add that it’s pretty easy to score drugs if you hang out with the right crowd. It’s not like they have secret handshakes or something.
Being still somewhat of a square at the time, I stuck with booze.
Tell me about it. I definitely hung out with the right crowd. Not comedians, just club goers.
Rhywun’s younger days, a dramatic reenactment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgs9FRD25M
My own experience tells the above is highly dubious.
Rhy is correct. It’s easy to slip in those barely-hidden cracks if you ain’t a rookie. I’m sure Derp agrees, to some extent, there are so many interesting people – often characters, themselves – and the places conversations and more can go, that you really don’t in other circles.
Many different avenues were opened, in many different ways. I strongly approve. Churchill described planning against Hitler, and described him as thinking in “straight lines,” and that Britain instead needed to think in “corkscrews.” (I use the same thinking with most everything, though particularly here WRT humor: To ‘throw curve balls’ at the scene to create laughs with the unexpected.
OMG I just meant the goth clubs.
The gay clubs are even MORE full of drugs, if that is possible.
I just assumed all comedians were drunks and/or drug addicts. Jerry Seinfeld being the exception that proves the rule.
He is addicted to neatness.
And young women and expensive cars.
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As a 17-year-old high school student, she met then 39-year-old Jerry Seinfeld in Central Park.[8] At that point, Seinfeld got her phone number.[9] Lonstein later came to public attention by dating Seinfeld, who was at the time starring in his eponymous sitcom. Early in their relationship, Spy magazine referred to her as “a legal voter”, since she had turned 18 by then.[10] They dated for approximately four years, from 1993 to 1997. During the relationship, she transferred from George Washington University to UCLA, in part to be with Seinfeld; she cited constant press coverage and missing New York City as reasons for the relationship ending.[11]
***
I know most men could not resist such a temptation, yet there still seems something sleazy about it.
She made (makes?) cute clothes.
She was supposed to be in a class with me. At any rate her name was called the first day, and murmuring went around the room.
I can’t believe no one posted this
https://youtu.be/bbr60I0u2Ng?si=vhHsI8vbkzDrGi9N
That’s kinda the big Bucket List Accomplishment I wanna check. Writing a ‘tight five’ and performing it, the first notch. I’ve performed as a drummer too many times to count, and my teaching in Asia was essentially a classroom performance every time, one way or the other.
It is official, that stand-up is my Dream Profession. Writing comedy in general, the (slightly) more realistic one. Hrm.
Unless you really crave attention, my advice is to do written comedy. If nothing else, you won’t have to spend 4 hours listening to other people’s comedy just so you can tell your own jokes for 5 minutes. Plus the only decent open mic scenes are in big cities.
Even so, getting a few open mics under your belt will do wonders for your self-esteem. Getting a good- sized crowd to laugh feels like hitting a homerun or punching out a bully.
I can’t imagine a dream I don’t have more than “stand up”.
*shudder*
What? You don’t want to do this?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9sNrOlK-I
Or swim with sharks? Or gators? Or ride a bull? Or build a boat and sail around the world?
suggested music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asDlYjJqzWE
I don’t *crave* attention, but I rather like it when I’m purposefully setting out to obtain it. I do have a performative side, with my speech, and I’m also *highly* gesticulative. Just me being me, I have a *very* expressive face. (Keeping it stifled is every moment’s work.) I kinda actively practice different expressions so my face knows what’s best for dead-pan joking.
Certainly seems to be up my alley. You’re assuredly correct that writing is the better path, and already an established skill. (Though I did perform to my students. Keeping them entertained enough to pay attention and follow each word was part of the game.)
I have an idea for a short story, screenplay or similar, semi-autobiographical but going into the true joking-scheme me and my best friend ‘came up with,’ the brown orphan (now) in MN I met in Korea: I’m me, and her too, in a reality where we’re perfect Venn diagrams of Disadvantaged, who both detest everything about identity politics.
She was working in family services in Todd County, MN. Not fully thought out, but rough idea: She was sick of all the welfare leeches she saw, while she couldn’t actually help the ~20% who legit ‘deserved’ outside aid. She wants to punish the moochers. My character ‘hires’ folk from his plasma center phlebotomy work to enact punishments on the undeserving recipients so the truly needy can get that under -the- table $$ to float ’em by.
Plenty of known humor from the donors I met, and she has her own stories with the moochers she encountered.
I believe you’ve said I should write an autobiography. This’d be a more playful rendition of it, tho the reality of both of our lives would be included, in parts. The should-be King and Queen of Wokedom, instead intent on charring the movement’s corpse.
LOL
This is same “housing authority” led by fatcat corruptocrats that is tens of billions of dollars behind in repairs – a figure that mysteriously rises a few billions more every couple years. Meanwhile generation after generation lives in the squalor because who in their right mind would give up a deal like that?
Minnesota lawmakers strike budget deal, protest erupts on ending health care for undocumented adults
More Trump cuts.
Walz sounding a lot like another recent MAGA convert Gavin Newsom.
It’s almost like they are all terrified of being caught out on the massive amount of corruption and fraud they have been practicing for many years.
Or they are shapeshifting lizard people who think no one will notice the change.
They’re closing Stillwater U? Now where will car thieves learn their trade?
Gavin Newsom is definitely a shapeshifting lizard person.
It’s good to see NYC Dems still have no concept of shame.
I love Bobcat and I’ve never seen this.
Cool.
*Pushes play*
Hm. Wouldn’t play on firefox, but will play on Chrome. i blame the French
Bob bob bob.Your choices are not good ones.
Is that Bo Diddley, or Muddy Waters?
Muddy Diddly
Puff Waters
sAcRiLeGe!¿!
I am just amused AF that Diddy is in the news a lot now and we’re all supposed to have forgotten the Puff years.
*nervously raises hand* There were Puff years?
Oh, shit – I totally forgot this was in the queue.
I haven’t actually watched it in 20 years or so.
Thanks, R.J.!
“I got that peanut-butter pussy…”
Melissa Hurley was in The Running Man. I don’t remember her as ‘the Dancer’.
That was different.
Thanks RJ!
“Ow, my colon.”
Not bad.
“Take medication when you’re fuckin’ around so you don’t get aids!”
These are some strange commercials.
They have improved drastically since the Biden years when it was only commercials for The Shot.
Biden wanted us to get shot? I believe it.
Yep. NGOs stole our own tax money to pay for commercials. I will never forget that bullshit now that we know how it works.
That never grows old.
I can’t count how many “you can quit smoking!” terror commercials I have seen lately.
I DID quit smoking and I’m still sick of seeing that shit.
“Don’t take if you are pregnant, or are trying to become, pregnant.”
–> “Don’t take if you’re bonin’, or may *want* to bone.”
Got me bonin’ 🎶
Excellent, and expected.
Enjoyable from the sidebar:
bass teacher listening for the first time
“Take this medication if you have HIV so you can continue to slut without spreading.”
“Not for humans assigned female at birth.”
“Someone once asked me what’s the difference between a hamster and a gerbil. I think a hamster has more dark meat.” -Bobcat
That was my senior quote in high school.
There we go. Old Bobcat noises. I miss the old Bobcat.
You’re livin’ in the past, man!
I, for one, have completely missed the eternal war between clowns and mimes.
Is there any doubt? Mimes are far more evil.
We’re not evil! We’re just misunderstood!/recovering mime
I just don’t like to talk. Not a mime.
😱
You just gotta not mess with those rodeo clowns – those are the tough MF’ers.
^^ Man speaks the truth.
“You silent motherfuckers!”
I’m really enjoying Search/Destroy. Hard to believe its a fan film.
Maybe Kanye is smarter than he gets credit for. Imagine you’re a legit Nazi and find out one day that a hit song called Heil Hitler was written by a black guy. It’s kind of like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ
That would be glorious, if true. *crosses fingers* (Were it, I highly doubt Kayne would’ve been at the productive helm of such. Who, then? Hrm…)
Poking cognitive dissonance bubbles is the first step of many.
Hello from Henderson NV, Im at the Las Vegas challenge, an A tier pro disc event. Im sponsoring 2 players, one MPO Xaelen and an FPO Sheliemae, all of us from San Diego.
We arw here for a week so I did air b and b and its worth it when you have 6 golfers staying, right now the folks are playing poker. The entire scene is very exciting for this old guy, being a caddie Im seeing the best players in the world.
Three more days in the desert, yee haa!
Howdy OBE!
This is fantastic news. Enjoy every bit of it.
(“FPO Sheliemae.” This may cause a Swiss-storm of punnery.)
She may lie about her front portage offerings to soy-boy Johnnies. They sink into the coarse suction, loving the chance to directly pay $20 reparations to the Brown to Black trannies they let colonize them.)
She is a nice Filipino lady, and crushes on the course
Earlier Generation X is almost a generation difference later X. HR Pufnstuf vs Fraggle Rock.
I fucking hate the shorthand. GenX is a shitty failed clothing chain. Boomers are imaginary boogeymen living in the heads of childish morons who need to STFU and put their time in first.
Typing people by name is a fools errand.
Im technically a boomer but grew up gen X and act like a 20 year old now, ‘splain that Lucy?
Sigh. I hate the “Millennial” term. Sadly, I was born in ’87, and I kinda define it. My puberty-awakening song was [Hit Me Baby] One More Time, 1999.
Humans be human, and everyone reacts to their own music /time in their own formative years. But damn. *THAT* ain’t a shabby sexual awakening song /artist. I’d hit that several times. She kinda-sorta asked me to.
The ironic(?) thing is that ‘Generation X’ was meant to express that that cohort _wasn’t_ easily definable by any sort of common attributes.
https://youtu.be/poc4TgOmpPM?si=Blm8PwBw_xtUpNON
I found this when Adam Sandler was real big and I had just found IMDB. Amazing that I managed to find this, Going Overboard and Mixed Nuts at the local video rental store.
I bought a DVD of Night of the Living Dead at a pawn shop in Morgantown, WV for $2 in 2005. It was next to a crossbow.
I heard people rave about that movie, so when I saw it, I bought it.
How I imagine UCS as an evil overlord:
http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/evilovl.html
my favorite item:
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12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
***
There are 214 other items in the list.
That’s a good start, but a little short.
216. There is never enough evil laughter.
a.) Don’t forget to breathe. Passing out is a bad look.
b.) No cackling
I.) Twirling of evil mustache is a must
II.) Check supply of evil mustache wax
217. Evil gloves must match evil opera cape. One must be dapper.
218. Study the methods of the evil and sinister Dr. Fu Manchu. Take many evil notes.
I remember reading somewhere that the ancient Persians never implemented anything they had decided on while sober until they discussed it while drunk.
I should add that it’s also pretty easy to score guns and other weapons too if you hang with the right crowd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyR_wILs6Q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jSVwZ8w3C4
Into the fervent world… we ride. “Put your shoes on; we’re at grandma’s…”
I hope all your plans go .. to plan! I hope today is chill, with as little “dispensing” to customers as possible. Preferably none. Afterwards, there is the exuberance of the 4yo’s soccer ‘practice.’ Highly entertaining. Hugely ill-maintained. Yutes be yutes. Fabulous chaos.
“Republicans are evil!”
“Abortion is a right!”
-my tv
😵💫🖕🤦♂️
Hold the line, Glibs. It’s gonna get funky again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1Jwyxd4tE
🎶🎶
Good tune
Forecast high of 83 today? Ugh.
🥵
Good morning, Sean, Efe, U, Ted’S., homey, and DEG!
How goes?
Pretty good! My cough is getting better, though it’s not gone. Most inconvenient thing on the agenda today is the need to make dinner reservations for our Board for next week at a restaurant that doesn’t open until 5:00. 🙄
How are you?
How dare business operate on something even more restrictive than bankers’ hours! :-p
(And yes, I know you operate on credit union hours, not bankers’ hours….)
Knees still hurt, especially when I walk, so the walk into the office was lovely.
I managed to spill a forkful of breakfast salad down my shirt and onto a pantleg 🙁
Cough is much reduced but hasn’t left me.
Radishes and peppers were going well when I left them this morning.
I need a vacation.
Hang in there – Memorial Day is coming! I believe it breaks the longest holiday-free stretch on the calendar. Then “Juneteenth” and Independence Day aren’t far behind. Doesn’t take the place of a real vacation, but it’s a bit of a breather, at least.
Those of us in the real world don’t get Juneteenth off.
Everyone else took time off on either side of memorial day, so I’m covering for people both weeks.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/nj-transit-strike-what-commuters-need-to-know-about-the-work-stoppage/6266880/
Send all the strikers to CECOT. Now.
Fuck those fat fucks.*
* Per local news footage, none of them are fit. Their spokesperson also has bitch tits.
And they think they’re a superior class of being for being GovSec.
While we’re at it, send this cunt to CECOT too.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/comey-deletes-trump-assassination-social-media-post-updates/
Maybe he’s a fan of Maxwell Smart.
Just a totally coincidental arrangement of seashells on a beach, yup yup.
Who hasn’t seen cryptic numerical seashell arrangements while walking on the beach and posted them on social media only to find that the meaning bit them in the ass? Let he that is without sin cast the first stone.
Also, obvious bullshit and Grade A gaslighting if I’ve ever seen it but plausible deniability, barely, and whatnot.
suh’ fam
Yo what’s goody
It’s Friday, although the weather doesn’t look great for the weekend.
Mornin’
Good morning, Glib brethren and sistren.
Ans xistren if you identify as something else, I guess…
Good morning, Grumble!
Gooten Moooorgen!
At least it is Friday.
Tres Version 2.0 graduates tonight.
TALL COMMENCEMENT CANS!
Congratulations! 👨🎓📜
🍻 !
Good morning all.
This Kathy Griffin person…I have no idea where she came from or why anyone pays attention to her. All of a sudden there she is waiving a bloody fake Trump head around and everyone is talking about Kathy Griffin – Kathy Griffin said – Kathy Griffin did something – Kathy Griffin….
and I am asking who the hell is Kathy Griffin. “She is the one who had the Trump head thing” Ok, but why? Who cares? Who is she? I have never heard of her.
Which reminds me Mr. 86 – 47 has everyone paying attention to him again after his stunt. What is it with people that cant live without being the center of attention?
I remember when Commie toured FBI offices to pitch his “no reasonable prosecutor” plan.
“What is it with people that cant live without being the center of attention?”
The internet, social media, and the “fame” that comes from it along with the need to make wackier and wackier posts to maintain relevance. Toss that in with narcissism and apparently you get a heady mix.
Mom didnt breast feed them? I dont get it.
I prefer anonymity. I suppose if someone were that interested they could figure out who I am from here but….why? I am not that interesting. I have found that nothing good comes from having too much attention.
I hate social media overall. But if I was there I’d post that I found these funny rocks on the beach that spelled “Comey Sucks.”
Comedian and actress, was on Suddenly Susan with Brooke Shields, had a reality show called Life on the D-List, skewered pretentious celebs, friend of Joan Rivers. She was funny (IMO) and apolitical two decades ago.
@Suthen
And she was in last night’s feature, of course.
Ok. A character in a genre that doesnt appeal to me. She lives in a different universe than I do. I had never heard of her before the Trump stunt.
I actually remember some of her standup from the late ‘80s/early ‘90s: sort of Joan Riversesque but more lowbrow and actually funny, at least in my opinion. I also remember seeing her on that Seinfeld episode and thinking to myself “Hey, she’s still around, good for her.” Whether real or contrived, her mind was poisoned by politics.
How could I forget Seinfeld?
Probably five minutes more than you’d like, Suthen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orGk6FIKjqU
There was a time when redheaded comediennes were funny.
Manic start to the day, assigned the work I like least first, but hasn’t been too bad. Did a pinch hit task that kinda impressed Boss Boss. Right hip is quite displeased. Got muscle relaxers at CVS for later. Hrm.
Highlight so far: Walmart radio, shockingly good, played There, There by Radiohead, by far my favorite band. The songs are all family friendly, usually pop rock, but they add country, older stuff, some hip hop and rarely a song in Spanish.
I saw Radiohead at Wembley Stadium in London in ’08 when I lived in Freiburg, Germany. In Rainbows tour. Daaaamn it was good.
Hope all have productive days. Get the worst out of the way first. Like a Band Aid, RIGHT OFF!!
Kid A and Amnesiac were brilliant, I give them that, but they lost me at Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows. The earlier ones were great too.