Plenty of Avenue Q is lame in its own way. Plenty of it is good, but you can tell there are comedy nerds in there, and musical nerds in there, and when the musical nerds get to write the songs, they aren't so funny. Musical comedians need to catch up with the cutting edge of comedy.Avenue Q is a great comedic musical.
But today, it means more. Standup comedy is about a persona, and when someone steals that, they're stealing your livelihood. Standup comedians live and die by their originality now.And as for "stealing", that's a comic tradition that dates back to the Greeks.
They don't even have to rhyme, sometimes.There's a lack of appreciation for musical standup comedy in my head, because I think more often than not, the jokes wouldn't be funny at all if they were spoken, but because they rhyme and have music, they get laughs.
Flight of the Conchords is one of my rare exceptions to the "musical comedy sucks" rule. Their stuff is on multiple levels, and isn't just about singing bad jokes with a musical rhyme and meter scheme.They don't even have to rhyme, sometimes.
See: "Jenny" by Flight of the Conchords
IGN has an in-depth, lengthy interview with Grant Morrison:
http://uk.comics.ign.com/articles/950/950703p1.html
FoxWhere are they playing? Pops or Missis- I mean Pops right?
Damnit, I really want a director's commentary for Final Crisis. I found a deep apprectiation for Arkham Asylum after reading Grant's script with his comments and Final Crisis is beggggging for the same treatment. I might just write a letter.
Wow, I was totally wrong. I really figured it was the effect of the lighting. Oh well.Well, Dan DiDio confirmed it that Mr. Miracle (Shilo Norman) was erroneously coloured white in the issues after Final Crisis #1.
On the other hand, the interview pretty much confirms everything I've argued about Final Crisis. Some remarkably specific things, like why Darkseid is intentionally not "a badass Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet."IGN has an in-depth, lengthy interview with Grant Morrison:
http://uk.comics.ign.com/articles/950/950703p1.html
I argued with a guy like yesterday who was literally disappointed that Darkseid wasn't badassed enough.Are there really people who were disappointed because no one got into an all-out brawl against Darkseid? The thing with the bullet was good enough for me.
Incidentally, two of my favorite Batman moments are Batman vs. Darkseid in the last episode of JLU, and Batman vs. Darkseid in Final Crisis #6. Even as I was watching the Omega Sanction nail him in FC 6, I was hoping that he'd dodge them like he did in JLU....really? Did he not watch the final season of Justice League Unlimited? Or every few episodes of Superman? Because it's just gonna be that same crap all over again.
IGN Comics: So if you'd go so far as to say the DC Multiverse is as real and as organic as anything, would you say that the story of Superman is its heart?
Morrison: Yeah, totally. Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.