Caltrops - Cabaret Voltron - Re: The Milk Run has comedy in it?

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by The Cheap Zseni Machine 02/24/2005, 3:42am PST

Mysterio wrote:

The Cheap Zseni Machine wrote:

Plus Milk Run 4 has Junkie Slip's "Muddy Empire" in it, which is so awesome it makes me wonder what your fucking damage is here.

Mainly that Radio 1 plays about twenty hours of music a day and has plenty of other opportunities to play Junkie Slip and Osymyso and whateverthefuck else, whereas they're down to one hour of comedy a week now and it's a Blue Jam ripoff with desperately dark and edgy "comedy" routines from a mixture of untalented standup comics and members of the general public whose coworkers have convinced them (wrongly) that their stuff deserves wide dissemination. It's not comedy with beats, it's open mic night at the Chuckle Hut with beats.

The more you write the more intensely I dislike your Judgment From On High attitude. Fatuously swanning about and complaining that Radio 1's comedy just isn't up to your precious standards is one thing, but dragging in the hopefuls, the amateurs, the people on the street who were just taking their crack at fame and hiliarity: that's just mean-spirited.

Your contention here is that Radio 1 needs to play more comedy that is good in a week, therefore nothing in Milk Run is funny. You're wrong: one hour a week is all the comedy a cynical, pitch-black bastard like you needs to fulfill your I Could Do Better Than That urges. And the perceived dearth of comedy has nothing to do with the goodness or funniness of the bits in any particular Milk Run, many of which are both good and funny. "Farm Meeting" and the DJ Danny bits in the first one for example - Farm Meeting is excellent up to the deus ex machina jetpacks bit at the end. The later Dutch Elm bit, 'Len And Alan', is even better, and more than makes up for the idiot who widdles about being too stoned to do her own accent.

As far as Junkie Slip goes, they have one 12" and one potential album, which is hardly enough to fill 140 hours a week with even if you really like them.