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.
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.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boardroom-suggestion
Haven’t seen those in a while but they are good.