Medium? What does that mean SootyJ?
How I lost my job as a cancer Page 2
As in the sketch being the route for your message on the humourous nature of cancer.
Not that cancer is funny, but that the idea that if Cancer were a person, who had lost it's job - how would Mr Cancer feel and behave.
It's a surreal notion.
Cancer wouldn't be evil. It's simply doing a job that us humans make easier for it.
Also our perception of cancer in the 1st world - How we face child cancer with horror compared with how we regard cancer in the elderly (both as a sufferer and a relative of a sufferer).
Then my observation that we disregard (in the west) the Cancer timebomb in the 3rd world. We still sell them cigarettes and buy their products that are sourced from carcinogenic processes.
I'm not an intellectual, clearly - I'm just a lay person seeing the world through regular eyes.
Anthropromorphising illnesses is pretty old and pretty hack.
The Readers Digest has been doing it for years.
Why not look at the way Fight Club does exactly the same joke but funny? And effecting.
Or even Disney's the sword and the stone.
I've not yet read the Readers Digest however Fight Club and Disney get's more than 180 seconds to convey a silly notion.... plus they have millions of dollars, many editors, Brad Pitt and they didn't start writing 10 weeks before public scrutiny!
Wow you're passionate sootyj - you know what you like - and in my case - dislike.... BIG TIME!
I'm finished with this forum. I except defeat. I am humble and bow to the pressure.
Phew! 
Don't go Vroombo
Maybe some of the Critique has been a bit Harsh.
But at least your putting yourself out there & learning as you go.
Yeh we sawed Steve in half and stuffed him full of cats.
We're just critiquing your sketches.
I was personally used as a whales contraceptive in my first week.
Made me the man I am today,
It's a shame to see you go Vroom! It's hard to break into an established forum, but hopefully not impossible. I really appreciated the feedback that I got when I posted in Critique- it was good to have what I had written ripped apart, because I assume that those who did know what they are talking about and I plan to rework what I have done (when things die down in work, I will be wasting company time again).
If you are still here- remember that what is written in type may come across differently than the way it was intended.
Actually we're just a bunch of c u next tuesdays.
I can't even read.
I just have a massive Faber and Fbaer collection of hurtful words I type at random.
Cancer was funny when Monty Python did a sketch about it. And seeing as 1 in 3 of us will be affected by it, I don't see anything wrong with making jokes about it.
I'm a little disappointed in the feedback Vroom has received (not just on this thread). I know it can be frustrating to give feedback when you feel the recipient isn't taking it on board, but there are plenty of people on here who don't listen to feedback.
Advice to Newbies should be 'Read at least 50 sketches in Critique, , format your sketch in a similar layout, write your sketch, read it out loud, re-write your sketch, and then post it in Critique'.
Sooty and Angie- I will remember that before I post again!
If only Sooty would *insert smiley/jokey/nudge-nudge smiley here*
SootyJ never does Smileys
Getting one from him is akin to being Knighted
Quote: AngieBaby @ January 17 2011, 10:38 PM GMTIf only Sooty would *insert
Is that the clumsiest flirt ever?
(I don't do emoticons hate the little bastards)
For what it's worth I don't give a toss if Vroom wants to stay or go.