DAN HARMON IS COMMUNITY
I’m crying again. Dammit Sony!
It’s the darkest timeline. (Sung to the tune of final countdown)
Via Community Things.
It’s Day One of Getting Back Into Shape
And it sucks. The first day back in the gym after almost six months of inactivity makes me wonder if being in shape is really worth all the hassle. It’s amazing how what used to be my warm up has turned into my entire workout. My body aches, my ego’s bruised, and all I want to do is take a shower, get a massage, and go to sleep.
It’s not even noon yet.
KONY 2012 and Generation Y: Rebels Without A Pause
Or
This Is Your Brain On Melodrama
In the mid 1940’s, Walt Disney produced a number of cartoons, at the request of the United States government. These shorts, given titles like “Der Fuehrer’s Face” and “Commando Duck,” portrayed Germans and Japanese as amoral, corrupt, and uncivilized caricatures. Copies of these propaganda films can be found floating around the internet, but due to their reductive and simplistic portrayal of nuanced and now-familiar subjects, they don’t read the way they used to. It’s a combination of cynicism, embarrassment, and an assumed superiority that leads us to laugh at these images of the three industrious pigs taking on a Nazi wolf—superiority to the dopey inhabitants of America 1945 who swallowed that ridiculously two-dimensional waffle without thinking twice; who blindly supported the endeavors of their government based on a few minutes of carefully scripted media. We snort, we close the tab, we open Facebook, and we all but declare war on a man whose name we just learned in a country we couldn’t point to on a map.
Joseph Kony and Uganda, respectively, in case you’ve been internetting under a rock.
On the continuum between our primate ancestors, from Dryopithecus up to the modern Homo Sapiens, there are fewer steps between us and the sentimental Cleavers of WWII America than we’d like to think. Although plenty of red flags have been raised in the wake of Invisible Children Inc.’s viral KONY 2012 campaign regarding the organization’s motivations, legitimacy, use of funds, etc., this isn’t my concern. One thing of which I’m certain is that they are not “bad guys,”
Around a year ago, a few friends and I watched all four Rambo movies in one day. We got to talking about how much fun it would be if John Rambo were to meet Rocky Balboa. So we wrote a movie about it.
We wrote the outline on one page of paper (in gold ink), split it up into six sections, and each wrote around 15-20 pages, without looking at each others’ work. I got the last section, and it was also my job to clean the script up, join the sections together, and try to get it to make sense.
Then we had a reading of it to hear what the others came up with. And then we never did anything else with it.
…UNTIL TODAY!
So here it is. Enjoy!
The writers:
Paul Rust (actor, “I Love You Beth Cooper;” currently co-writing the new Pee-Wee Herman movie)
Kulap Vilaysack (co-host, “Who Charted?” podcast; actress, “Childrens Hospital”)
Michael Cassady (actor, “The Office,” “Freakdance”)
Harris Wittels (writer, “Parks and Recreation,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Eastbound & Down”)
Neil Campbell (UCB Theatre LA Artistic Director; writer, “Mike Detective”)
Scott Aukerman (host, “Comedy Bang Bang;” writer, “Mr. Show;” co-creator, “Between Two Ferns”)
Click on the TITLE of the article to be taken to the script!
The best script you never knew you had to read.
About me
Drinking is a habit. My mom googles me. I like stand up comedy, rap, and weird shit.
