I recently finished reading The Mist by Stephen King and it is a really good novella (actually would've loved it to be longer) but when I finished I was chuckling to myself because in the show, there is a "pansexual" character and in a stunning and brave scene the jock that bullies him turns out to be gay as well.
I was just imagining that some writer for the show said "despite it not being in the book, and really having nothing to do with the plot, lets add a pansexual character". The skits you could write to mock this mentality in Hollywood are endless. If SNL could go back to being equal opportunity with comedy they would have endless material. Another skit could be someone pitching a drama taking place in a small Norwegian village in 1500 and the first thing one of the Hollywood execs ask is why there aren't any blacks or latinos.
Not saying that there aren't funny things about the right or Trump, but after so many years it really isn't edgy to mock straight white men, Christians, or republicans.
I've done some writing but nothing more than poetry or a short story (sci-fi), and I've never done any comedy but I have an idea that kind of is inspired by The Producers (I love Mel Brooks) as a way to mock the race/gender swap obsession where a down on his luck white director follows the advice that there is no such thing as bad publicity and makes a miniseries about Shaka Zulu and casts a Scandinavian female with blonde hair and blue eyes to play Shaka Zulu. When the controversy starts, he reads from all the shill sites that praise race/gender swaps of historical figures during a press conference and then explains he is "reimagining a great African figure" and accuses the press of racism.
Like I said I have never written comedy so I may need to find a writing partner and I've gone over different ideas and stuff but one scene I have in my head is "Shaka Zulu" leading the Zulu nation into battle and social media exploding in anger. If I can think of something witty I can also throw in a slam against the Wheel of Time debacle. That showrunner is everything wrong with modern adaptations.
"Call me Ishmael. My pronouns are they/them and I identify as a demigender zygosexual system with twelve alters, two of which are autistic and three have PTSD and Tourette's, and one is a cat named Tiddles."
I can see that scene in a “reimagined” Moby Dick. There will be no whale. The whale will be the prevalence of white supremacy or something.
The crew will scream that a white whale is evidence of systemic racism, and that the white whale should use its privilege to amplify Black and Brown whale voices. They will replace the ship's flag with the rainbow pride flag.
When the ship is attacked by the whale, the crew will begin marching and chanting slogans on the deck, then light the crew's quarters on fire in protest.
The part of Ahab will be played by Patrice Cullors. When the ship starts to sink, she'll sneak off in a hidden life boat, and go live on an island she bought with the crew's wages.
You should submit the idea to Netflix. They are dumb enough to not realize you are mocking them.
If I threw in some prepubescent cabin girls twerking and a child drag queen, they'd probably start throwing stacks of money at me.
Ha! I didn’t think of that!
Because you are too pure of heart.
Mabe the whale was the hwite supremacists smolliet made up the whole time?!!
"Yes, Betrayer of Hope. They gave me the name to revile me, but I will yet make them kneel and worship it."
Does/will not stop them doing it, though.
Agreed. And then they are shocked at low audience numbers
"Why aren't those deplorables who we've been attacking for years and telling our product isn't for them not listening to us and/or consooming our product!? Reeeeee!"
Not much surprises me but when corporations react like that it does. Similar to comic books. They actively push out the main market and pander to women exclusively (yes there are legit female comic book fans but not in the same number as males) and then act shocked when comic books are cancelled for low sales
Although that sounds like comedy, not sure it is suited for a written format (could be wrong). Edit: Could you recommend a comedy which use the style your thinking it would sort of follow?
That’s true. I guess something like that would have to be visual to really mock the race/gender swap stuff. I could try my hand at writing a screenplay
Perhaps it could work as on just being absurd by itself, and then escalating further and further and thus mainly playing on the reaction of the world to an "mad" playwrights attempt at increasingly trying to apply the dogma more and more but in "the wrong way" but by not really being a writer myself, I'm really fumbling in the dark here
You and me both. When I started writing I thought comedy would be easier than sci fi. For me it isn’t. Lol.
So by starting out with writer perhaps making a small successful play which get the "modern audience" which by chance propel the person into grand culture atmosphere and in the writers naivety to keep going they submerged themselves into the culture in their writing but keep applying it wrongly? Once more i'm just fumbling around with the idea, so that the zulu part is either the crescndo or the middle?
Not a bad idea. Thanks! I have miles to go on this.
Glad that it could be of some use, If you need someone to test read it I can volunteer.
That is greatly appreciated. All I ask is that you be honest and no sugarcoating
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boardroom-suggestion
Haven’t seen those in a while but they are good.
Another hilarious thing that should be mocked more is the American hysteria over the “n-word”. You could have a barbecue with normal people chatting, someone asking about the lyrics to a song, the word being uttered reluctantly, and suddenly the place is an insane chaos of people running in circles screaming, others in fetus position on the ground etc. 😁
As always Python was years ahead of this with their work
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2UbtcmjfKa8
Not a bad idea. We have reached the point where college students walk out because someone quotes the word or explains the origin of the word.
Yea I hated the movie ending. The book ending had some hope.
Never read reading the book, is it much different then the movie? I also think Stephen King does not like Christianity.
The movie follows the book pretty well up to the ending. In the book it ends with them hiding out at a hotel and the main character hears “Hartford” on the radio. Yea King isn’t a Christian as far as I know. Great writer though but I definitely don’t agree with his views