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Monday, February 28, 2005
The Unfunny 90s
 Glencoe
While I was away over the weekend, I had a chat with Merv & Jeremy.
MERV: Did you rent any movies?
BLAMB: I saw Dodgeball and Elf. I'm glad comedy is back.
MERV: Back?
BLAMB: There weren't many funny movies in the 90s. Mainstream studio comedies were dominated by those cheap, template-plotted Saturday Night Live movies like Tommy Boy.
MERV: I loved Tommy Boy!
BLAMB: But does it hold up a decade later? 90s comedies were all about showcasing the personalities of the comedians, they were never about the jokes. Take Jim Carrey ... please.
 MERV: Ace Venture is a great flick.
BLAMB: [rolls eyes] His interest in himself was inversely proportionate to the quality of his routines. Jim Carrey is a pus-filled ego blister.
MERV: Hey! Lots of people like him.
BLAMB: But he wasn't very committed to comedy, was he? First chance he got, he tried to become a "serious" actor like Tom Hanks and Robin Williams. Can you imagine Groucho or the Three Stooges doing that? Moe Howard never played a widowed professor who helps some dumbass come of age.
 MERV: What the hell are you talking about?
BLAMB: Lou Costello never played the leader of a squad of soldiers who risk it all to rescue Matt Damon from the Nazis and certain doom.
MERV: Huh?
BLAMB: Listen, you have to agree with me that things are better now. Stack 'em up. In the 90s you had Jim Carrey, Chris Farley, David Spade and Adam Sandler. One-dimensional comedians who got by on barely passable one-note-jokes. Even Mike Myers, the funniest of the bunch, finds himself much funnnier than the audience does. Now we've got Will Ferrel, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and that crowd. They're funnier and for them it's more about the jokes than their egos.
MERV: I guess.
BLAMB: And compare the movies. Anchorman and Dodgeball are far better ... not just funnier, better overall ... than movies like Black Sheep and Billy Madison. Heck, Old School is better. They're more like 80s comedies rather than 90s slop. Now, if they resurrect the sci-fi comedy genre, we'll be in paradise!
MERV: Well ....
 JER: Funny how it's reversed. 90s tv comedy was really good compared to present tv comedy. The sitcom is pretty much a dead format.
BLAMB: I think that's partly the influence of reality tv.
MER: There's no Seinfeld-equivalent right now.
BLAMB: At least there's some justice in this world. David Spade wound up becoming the type of celebrity he used to mock in his routines. It would be fun seeing him so washed up if he weren't so pathetic.
JER: It's sad that he wears a goatee. That was the style in the 90s, it's like he's clinging to the past.
MERV: Better days.
JER: Brett, you must like arguing with people on your blog because you always get to win.
 BLAMB: I'll let you in on a little secret, even when I lose the argument I write it in a way that makes it clear that I'm right and infers that I really won.
MERV: That's not fair!
BLAMB: You've got your site, complain about it there. This is a blog, not a democracy. So, are we agreed? 90s comedies suck ass and 80s and 00s flicks and the comedians in them are far superior?
JER: Yes, and you are all-wise.
MERV: We will not question your infinite wisdom.
BLAMB: Ha ha! I win again!
Rebuttal: Merv responds by saying I'm wrong, thinks about it and realizes I'm right.
4:35 PM
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