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New sketches: Difficult 2nd Job: Dr Seuss & Sloth

Hiya guys, we posted the first one in this series (Pingu) a while back (here it is in case you didn't see it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHYGR8tGq-k

We were going to follow up with some more straight away but then got stupidly busy with other projects... but we've bashed together a couple of new ones now and I'd love to know what you think to them! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx1q2mcY9s8

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqxDvsCDcxE

Cheers,

Henry Wave

I don't know which is worse, the extreme poor taste in relation to the subject matter,or the delusion than you two think what you're doing is even remotely funny.
Shock value is only good when it is supported by genuine comedy, this is just a pile of vile garbage.
Given that you have access to filming facilities this is a piss poor effort on all fronts and that is my honest opinion!

Thanks Teddy! Wave

The above review seems slightly harsh.

These were pretty amusing and I like the style.

Slightly harsh, the clip featured a young girl being diagnosed with cervical cancer, in my book that's way past Frankie Boyle and heading toward Gary Glitter.
If you don't speak your mind on shit like this then you haven't got one!

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ June 7 2011, 12:46 PM BST

Slightly harsh, the clip featured a young girl being diagnosed with cervical cancer, in my book that's way past Frankie Boyle and heading toward Gary Glitter.
If you don't speak your mind on shit like this then you haven't got one!

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ June 7 2011, 12:29 PM BST

Shock value is only good when it is supported by genuine comedy, this is just a pile of vile garbage.

So what, aside from the subject matter stops this from being comedy? Or can shock value only be any good when it's a subject that you personally don't happen to find massively distasteful?

Liked Sloth for a mild giggle and nod to the Goonies.

Didn't like Dr. Seuss, but not in quite the same way as TP. Just didn't think it was funny, there's no joke there. I could handle the bad taste though.

End on a positive, I enjoyed the Oscars vid! Funny. :P

I don't dissect comedy I just laugh at it, when it's funny.
In relation to thinking it was in poor taste, I find that it is a personal reaction that simply reflects my standards and morals.
If you think its funny then that's your opinion and you're perfectly entitled to it, I found it to be in poor taste and extremely infantile.
Perhaps the parents of the child featured might find it hilarious although I doubt they know that their child has been used, it's always the way.

Hi Henry

The Seuss one would be as funny (or possibly funnier) with the patient being an adult. I'm all for shock humour (huge Louis C.K. fan and he has many jokes about dead kids), but her being a child rather than someone older doesn't make it funnier in this case. Either way, it's still cruel, but maybe slightly less-so if she's an adult.

Didn't get the Sloth one, but that was because I've never heard of the character.

Best wishes
Yac

I don't agree I think its shit!
If you take into account two adults working with the facilities these two have, do you honestly think you couldn't have done better?
Poor taste aside it had no real comedy content and the photo shop stuff looks like the handiwork of Uzbekistan's answer to Terry Gilliam.

Childishness and poor taste aside, this clip must have took two seconds to conceive and it shows

Please don't flip out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn5ci099cFc

(keep with first 20 secs, it's building the tension)

Quote: Jammy Jim @ June 7 2011, 1:24 PM BST

Please don't flip out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn5ci099cFc

(keep with first 20 secs, it's building the tension)

My oh my, this is hilarious. 0:53 IS definitely the trigger.

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