VERY nice article in the Daily News concerning one Mr. Jon Friedman's Rejection Show.
Not sure if you all know this as it may have been pre-blog (I know, it is hard to remember such a time), but EL actually performed in the Rejection Show last year. We did a little ditty called "If Dogs Ruled..." and it was all about what would happen if dogs ruled the world. To ruin the sketch for ya, basically the only thing that would happen is that all numbers would be multiplied by 7 (to account for dog years) and the prefix "dog" would be placed before all words. I'd post the script here, but there's a reason we performed it a show called "The Rejection Show."
One particularly embarassing (embarassing because I co-wrote it) line is uttered by Jeff: "Yes. I mean no. Wait. I don't remember. It doesn't matter. Why would I want to bring children into this terrible dog world?" Not to say that it's not a funny line (in context), but it's a line that includes, not one, not two, not three, but SIX sentences. That is what we call clunky, friends!
Speaking of clunky, I used a lot of parentheses in this post.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
The Rejection Show
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In retrospect, I think "When Dog's Ruled" was a bad choice, even for The Rejection Show.
If only we coulda done Dog Twins.
I'd like to go on record here and say that that line was one of the hardest things I've ever had to say. It's difficult because they're not just six sentences, but six sentences that keep contradicting each other. So it's like you have to pretend to have six contradictory thoughts, each of them strong enough that they warrant being spoken aloud, but each subsequent one so much stronger than the last, that you feel the need to correct yourself in front of anyone who might be listening. I'm getting confused and a little awkward just thinking about this.
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