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We caught Bobcat Goldthwait's latest film, World's Greatest Dad, on the closing night of CineVegas this year. Dad is considerably darker than anything you'd assume a comedian in Police Academy was capable of creating, much like how Gawker was utterly disgusted by his commercials for Microsoft. Yet that's the charm behind Goldthwait, whose first directorial feature, Shakes The Clown, focused on alcoholic and drug dependent clowns and their scene in Los Angeles.
Any parallels you saw between that and say, the 1980s Comedy Club circuit, were fairly obvious and apparent.
As a director, he takes a tone that's humorous, but only if you think the media being forced to accept their consequences is "funny." Or if redemption in the form of tragedy, like Dad, is in fact pitch-black comedy gold. But, as he said to BusinessWeek, " It's like finding out that Screech is directing a movie."
In the ads for Internet Explorer 8, the tone is relatively lighter, but still the playful and mocking tone you can find in Shakes, Dad and Let Sleeping Dogs Lie/Stay, which...we won't get into now.
We're also partial to G.R.I.P.E.S.
Any parallels you saw between that and say, the 1980s Comedy Club circuit, were fairly obvious and apparent.
As a director, he takes a tone that's humorous, but only if you think the media being forced to accept their consequences is "funny." Or if redemption in the form of tragedy, like Dad, is in fact pitch-black comedy gold. But, as he said to BusinessWeek, " It's like finding out that Screech is directing a movie."
In the ads for Internet Explorer 8, the tone is relatively lighter, but still the playful and mocking tone you can find in Shakes, Dad and Let Sleeping Dogs Lie/Stay, which...we won't get into now.
We're also partial to G.R.I.P.E.S.
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Of course, one of the ads that featured vomiting was proclaimed "Worst.Ad.Ever." by Technologizer. Because god knows, it's not like you can find sicker shit on the Internet with kids lighting rockets out of their ass, now can you?
The rest of the ads can be found here.
-John Lichman
