This is better than many Saturday-Night-Live skits. The length of the piece seems to fit, too. It doesn't try to drag five minutes of humor out into a ten-minute piece.
I couldn't get very far past the adults in diapers, the dead guy in the baseball stadium, and the pimp. I guess this is just not my type of humor. Of course, I was silly enough to expect that somebody was REALLY interested in exploring the meanings that various people place on human life.
It didn't seem to me that the interviewer had a lot of respect for the interviewees. I'm probably too sensitive about that.
I feel bad knocking this piece. Let me again emphasize that it just doesn't fit MY sense of humor.
Comments by Paul Blanchard
Comment for "One Huge Backyard"
Paul Blanchard
Posted on November 29, 2006 at 09:15 AM | Permalink
Review of One Huge Backyard
Some folks would love to live on an island with just 60 other people.
Most, perhaps, would hate it.
But don't we all wonder - once in a while - what it would be like to be full-time islanders, to raise our children there?
Comment for "Hobo Confessions" (deleted)
Paul Blanchard
Posted on November 28, 2006 at 06:22 PM
Review of Hobo Confessions (deleted)
He's traveled to places that you and I haven't seen. He neither brags nor apologizes. Through his eyes we glimpse a slightly different world.
Comment for "Kasper Hauser: Phone Call to the 14th Century"
Paul Blanchard
Posted on November 28, 2006 at 04:45 PM | Permalink
Review of Kasper Hauser: Phone Call to the 14th Century
This is better than many Saturday-Night-Live skits. The length of the piece seems to fit, too. It doesn't try to drag five minutes of humor out into a ten-minute piece.
Comment for "What is The Meaning of Life?"
Paul Blanchard
Posted on November 28, 2006 at 08:38 AM | Permalink
Review of What is The Meaning of Life?
I couldn't get very far past the adults in diapers, the dead guy in the baseball stadium, and the pimp. I guess this is just not my type of humor. Of course, I was silly enough to expect that somebody was REALLY interested in exploring the meanings that various people place on human life.
It didn't seem to me that the interviewer had a lot of respect for the interviewees. I'm probably too sensitive about that.
I feel bad knocking this piece. Let me again emphasize that it just doesn't fit MY sense of humor.