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Via The Midnight Show comes The Worst Death Ever: Deleted Scenes. The original clip is from the Turkish classic movie “Kareteci Kiz” or “Karate Girl.” Like every single movie made in the 1970s, this film follows the plot of a woman whose husband is murdered and so she goes on karate rampage against the murderers and kills them. The guy in this video is Jeff Sloniker, who was a guest on my old podcast.
I think every writer has heard this from an editor at least once, and it has made them want to punch something. This is a sketch called “Write This” from the British comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, and in it a dolt of an editor tells a creative writer that his ideas are awful, and the predictable happens.
(This is where I would insert a Morgan Freemark if I had one.) Yes, old College Humor was correct, we did need new punctuation marks such as the Morgan Freemark here, so we could know when someone was narrating something with a mix of melancholy, charm and reserved gravitas. I miss my old friend Andy…
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Vice has the tragic tale of one writer’s disappointing trip to the Playboy mansion.
Seriously. Look at that phone. It’s in the grotto. It looks like the phone Pat Corrales used to call the Indians’ bullpen in 1987.
The Goofus and Gallant comic is great. Check out the whole disturbing and hilarious thing over at These Fries Are Good.