Showing posts with label cliches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cliches. Show all posts

Friday, September 27, 2024

Pick your own punch line!

So here's a cartoon I whipped up, with a classic cartoon situation. Man vs. Firing Squad is as clichéd (we call it timeless) as Man Gets to Heaven, Man on Desert Island, Man Talking with Animal, Man in Cannibal Pot, Man in Western Shootout, and a dozen other classic situations. 

But today, you get to pick your own punch line! I have listed ten; which is the funniest?

1. "No menthol?"

2. "Just make it quick, I got a date in half an hour."

3. "Seriously, does my hair look okay?"

4. "The Surgeon General says that smoking is bad for you, mister."

5. "Does this stake make me look fat?"

6. "I don't smoke, but -- Say, could I bother you for a knife?"

7. "You know who smokes in bed? Yo mama."

8. "Excuse me! I specifically requested the nonsmoking section."

9. "I really gotta pee."

10. "I signed up for the Desert Island Cartoon."

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Comedy classics, am I right? Of course, you are more than welcome to roll your own as well. Cig, sure, but I mean to add your own hilarious caption in comments. I promise to laugh! Even if it's just a hollow laugh of envy at your superior humorous talents. Ha. Ha. 

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Done to death.

I'm telling you, these dogs are driving me crazy. You know, when I called the producer and said we were going to need a couple of dogs, I expected to get some with a little more pizzazz, you know, a little imagination, a little razzmatazz. Instead it's just the same old same old. 

Take, for example, the hydrant situation. 

At first I thought these guys would bring something new to the part, since they didn't urinate on the hydrant, but they kept sniffing at it like they were trying to get a dose of intranasal iron. 

It got worse from there -- lying around, barking at passersby, chewing sticks. All the dull clichés we've always seen. I thought they were showing a little spark of creativity when they didn't chase a squirrel, but it turned out they were just being lazy. 

After we wrapped for the day, I got to thinking that maybe they are method actors, and were getting too into the idea of Dog rather than bringing themselves to the part of Dog. So I texted one of them and asked what his motivation was with the hydrant business. He wrote, "sniffin stuf".

I can't work like this!

If these two don't show some chops, we're going to have to recast. I mean, they're fuzzy and adorable, sure, but adorable is a dime a dozen in this business. I want ACTING!

Maybe if I get a couple of cats to play the dogs... Hmm....