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Laughing out loud

Quote: Morrace @ June 18 2009, 8:21 PM BST

Josef Fritzl would probably go down on anything.

"Oh allright, if you incest..."

:D

Jackson Pollock was asked to produce a series of sketches to help his psycho-analyst, and this appears to have inspired him to paint a troubling work," Naked Man with Knife". I wonder how your writing might be affected, if you thought a shrink was going to examine it? Or for that matter, your child, mother or a typical audience? Often people claim they create their art for themselves, but I think it's always for an audience really. Perhaps writers would create different (funnier?) work if they imagined an unusual target audience.

So where does that leave my sketch; about the guy who murders someone with terminal cancer at a reunion? Or the one where Gordon Brown becomes an incontinent suicide bomber, or Skippy the paedophile kangaroo or the one where Karren Mathews uses her last phone call to demand sex.

What excatly are you getting at? eh eh?

Quote: sootyj @ June 18 2009, 9:08 PM BST

So where does that leave my sketch; about the guy who murders someone with terminal cancer at a reunion?

The victim represents your father and this is a subconscious playing out of your Oedipus complex.

Quote: sootyj @ June 18 2009, 9:08 PM BST

Or the one where Gordon Brown becomes an incontinent suicide bomber

You wet your bed as a child?

Quote: sootyj @ June 18 2009, 9:08 PM BST

or Skippy the paedophile kangaroo

You like children a lot?

Quote: sootyj @ June 18 2009, 9:08 PM BST

or the one where Karren Mathews uses her last phone call to demand sex.

Does she remind you of your mother? Oedipus again.

Quote: NoggetFred @ June 18 2009, 9:34 PM BST

The victim represents your father and this is a subconscious playing out of your Oedipus complex.
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You fancy Karren Mathews

Quote: NoggetFred @ June 18 2009, 9:34 PM BST

You wet your bed as a child?

You fancy Karren Mathews.

Quote: NoggetFred @ June 18 2009, 9:34 PM BST

You like children a lot?

You wish I was Karren Mathews

[quote name="NoggetFred" post="430467" date="June 18 2009, 9:34 PM BST
Does she remind you of your mother? Oedipus again.[/quote]
You're probably having a wank and crying over a photo of Karren Mathews right now.

Quote: sootyj @ June 18 2009, 9:38 PM BST

You fancy Karren Mathews.

It's cos my eyesight is bad

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Stop using photos of Aaron there's rules about that!

Quote: Scottidog @ June 18 2009, 8:30 PM BST

:D

I love your avatar

Quote: Griff @ June 18 2009, 9:01 PM BST

A writer can't pick up a pen without unknowingly confessing something.

You're safe then.

Quote: Chappers @ June 18 2009, 4:11 PM BST

That works for me - although the dogs aren't funny enough.

Try giving the dog a shower. That should be funny enough.
:D

A run of French new-wave and Bergman films has left me humourless... the only one worse than this was the Mike Leigh run that resulted in me thinking constantly about sex and how everyone in private must be having it at every second of every day to depressing music in a grotty room.

Quote: sardines @ June 19 2009, 3:33 AM BST

A run of French new-wave and Bergman films has left me humourless... the only one worse than this was the Mike Leigh run that resulted in me thinking constantly about sex and how everyone in private must be having it at every second of every day to depressing music in a grotty room.

I wasn't. Pleased

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