It was a pretty solid week for me on TMI. I got many jokes in. Of course there was some re-working of punchlines; the term "recorded" got changed to "TiVo" (because it's hipper?). My phrase, "We finally find voter fraud and this is it????" became a long winded explanation defining the GOP's actions about the fraud. I was surprised to find "duh" got left as-is. My line, "So he hasn’t even bothered to come up with new material during his down time?" which insinuates that Trump is on the level of a comedian got altered to actually using the term "comedian." But the 18th was an odd day where a lot of my set-ups were used, but the punchlines were flipped around. I am absolutely including them, as my structure and logic are there. For instance, my line about the Texas electric bills being forgiven so that people didn't have to pay was "But, make sure you don't forgive the politicians and businesses who allowed it all to happen in the first place" jumping off the term forgiven. It got rewritten to "the business men who caused it won't pay either" playing off the word "pay" instead and inverting my warning to not forgive them to assuming they won't pay. Different sides of the same coin, right?
The "Biden won the election" was reworded for some reason, but the exact same intent. And the Brad Pit joke took my "HBO docu-series" punchline and made it a long, winding sentence to get to the same place and beat you over the head with it. As for the 19th, they took one of my earlier joke punchlines ("another broken campaign promised" and recycled on a joke that very closely resembles a submission from 2 weeks ago. The CDC set up was mine, verbatim, and the cow/seaweed joke. The punchlines were totally different though. The CDC went from "how kids away from school too long think 3 feet is twice as far as six" and the cow joke was simply silly, about getting the cows to the beach instead of some weird knock on LA lifestyles. Is seaweed diets a thing in L.A.? Anyway, you'll have to go to the TMI: Hollywood FB page to hear those, as I didn't include them. Then there was the talk radio joke. I used the word "business" first and changed it to "racket" in the actual submission. Then they changed it back to "business" and added the word recently. Why? It's fascinating to see these changes, big and small, happen. All this time and I really don't think we've created a "voice" for Tonya, although once in a while I try to through in something off speed to see what she does with it. But since I'm not in any writing rooms, I'm totally in the dark as to why it occurs.
Anyway, just to remind everyone, TMI: Daily is on the TMI: Hollywood Facebook Page weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time). And here's my contributions for last week:
The "Biden won the election" was reworded for some reason, but the exact same intent. And the Brad Pit joke took my "HBO docu-series" punchline and made it a long, winding sentence to get to the same place and beat you over the head with it. As for the 19th, they took one of my earlier joke punchlines ("another broken campaign promised" and recycled on a joke that very closely resembles a submission from 2 weeks ago. The CDC set up was mine, verbatim, and the cow/seaweed joke. The punchlines were totally different though. The CDC went from "how kids away from school too long think 3 feet is twice as far as six" and the cow joke was simply silly, about getting the cows to the beach instead of some weird knock on LA lifestyles. Is seaweed diets a thing in L.A.? Anyway, you'll have to go to the TMI: Hollywood FB page to hear those, as I didn't include them. Then there was the talk radio joke. I used the word "business" first and changed it to "racket" in the actual submission. Then they changed it back to "business" and added the word recently. Why? It's fascinating to see these changes, big and small, happen. All this time and I really don't think we've created a "voice" for Tonya, although once in a while I try to through in something off speed to see what she does with it. But since I'm not in any writing rooms, I'm totally in the dark as to why it occurs.
Anyway, just to remind everyone, TMI: Daily is on the TMI: Hollywood Facebook Page weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time). And here's my contributions for last week:
