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.
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.
You should submit the idea to Netflix. They are dumb enough to not realize you are mocking them.
Ha! I didn’t think of that!
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
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
You and me both. When I started writing I thought comedy would be easier than sci fi. For me it isn’t. Lol.
Not a bad idea. Thanks! I have miles to go on this.
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