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![]() Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. Getting this up late. Had a computer crash (independent of the MicroSoft crash) and, well, last week's hashtag game didn't go that well for me. I mean doing puns on one word items (like board games) is tricky. And, frankly, WH grabbed most of them for themselves. I finally manage to squeeze out 12 or so, but only one got selected for their website post. Oh, well. There's always another game for another week. Until then...
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![]() Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. I had a solid week, entered almost 20, got 8 in. And I came up with some pretty pithy puns, IMHO There were a lot of good tweets this week, throughout. I am concern, because the number of participants seems to have settled on a core group of tweeters and the game never gets to trending any more. Oh, well. In the mean time, enjoy:
The important thing about comedy is staying topical and relevant! And that's why I wrote up this parody of Jurassic Park!
Fortunately in these days of content creation and exhibition, the Jurassic Park/World movies are on CONSTANTLY. And it cable stations still show it, I can mock it. Any way, Weekly Humorist bought into that theory and published by latest over at their website! Check it out! ![]() I just saw the trailer for the new Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie, “Red One.” Santa goes missing. Christmas is coming. The North Pole is in a panic. A regular human private investigator is brought in to find him. He’s a fish out of water dealing with the Christmas magic. Why does this sound so familiar? Oh, right, I wrote that story ages ago. I called it “Lost Claus.” It was optioned by Warner Bros. I had to write a second draft for them. Eventually, the idea of making the movie faded away. I rewrote it as a novel. I rewrote it as a radio program. I wrote a couple of sequel novels and sequel radio programs. I have a long chain of evidence that my version existed first. However, my script is now useless. There was recent interest, but it’ll all disappear now. The Fast & Furious team came in with their version, all juiced up on steroids (did you see the shirtless Claus in this version?) and turned into an action movie. My screenplay is dead (again). I needed to see this like I needed a poke in the eye with a peppermint stick. Well, maybe I can ride these red coat tails and sell some books. That would be nice. Link below: ![]() Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. Happy Independence Day. Pop bands, meet snap, crackle and pop. I'm not a music guy, so I had to call up a list of the 100 top rock bands and went from there. A couple of non-rock bands popped into my head and I duped posts with others. I did The Bald Engles, but so did Weekly Humorist and a couple of other posters yet that got a lot of likes and made it to the website. Weird. I got 6 others on there out of 18 or so (why do I go so hard on these games?). Anyway, here's the webpage for...
![]() From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... The season was winding down. The Fourth of July was coming up. I don't know what inspired the idea, but it's not like I hadn't visited this terrain before (my Ye Old Catchphrase Shoppe) and perhaps we had visited Williamsburg around this time which would have put in in a Patrick Henry state of mind. It's a typical sketch premise for me; take a bit of history and then just have the guy over do it, in this case, Henry's famous rallying cry. I did it with bin Laden and his habit of declaring jihads on anybody who annoyed him. While that sketch got used, this one missed the mark. And I actually submitted two sketches that week, something I had stopped doing years earlier. I just couldn't take the double rejection. But with things ending, if I had another idea and didn't want to sit on it all summer, it had to be sent in. Give Me Liberty![]() From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... I had forgotten about this sketch. Man, I was ahead of the curve on this one. Back in 2005, it was starting to get more common to refer to your opponent as a "Hitler." This was back when that was considered a bad thing. This is when Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies came into usage. That rule said that if any online discussion continues long enough, someone will almost certainly compare someone else to Hitler. Again, back when this was a bad thing. So what would be more natural that turning that concept into a TV reality game show? They were very popular at the time. It's a quick bit, get in, get out and I think it makes a point. Not sure if this was the first or the second of the two sketches I submitted, but neither made the cut. I figure this must have been the first idea, and then the Independence Day idea make itself known. I Wanna Be a Hitler![]() From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... Here's a sketch about a problem that that didn't go away. Back in 2005, people were complaining about how the amount of time between a movie's theatrical run and its appearance on home video was shrinking. Theater owners were mad because this was cutting into their profits. Studios were concerned because the DVD goldmine was just about mined out as VOD was launching. And this was all beyond streaming was a glint in Blockbuster's eye. Hollywood still hasn't figured it out. The sketch is pretty good, but there's a lot of pop culture references to it (which GK wasn't fond of) and a lot of references to TV, which seems counter-productive for a radio show. What can I say? It was original. It was snappy. It was topical. But it didn't get selected. Now Showing![]() Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. I was offline for a couple of weeks, so I missed those hashtags, but I'm back pretty strong this week. Yeah, it's one of those weeks where people went with different definitions of "hot." Hot in terms of temperature vs. hot as in spicy or hot is in attractive. I stayed with temperature. Submitted a bunch, got 5 in. So, in honor of the heat wave and the fact that there are no superhero movies this summer (?) we present:
![]() From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... What can I say, there used to be commercials for the Chubb Institute for work skills. What could be more natural than to add the "y" and still present it as a training institute and weight center. Again, a short bit as the season was winding down and I wasn't fully engaged at this point. It had been months since I had a piece up. And even longer since there was any true contact with me. Or acknowledgment of me. My heart wasn't in it, but I still felt compelled to keep submitting material. Oh, well. The Chubby Institute |
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