media studies 203
Mar. 13th, 2002 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateSo there's an article in today's Salon about he's-young-he's-hot-he's-dead comedian Bill Hicks:
Another of his bits, he told me, was about the movie "Silence of the Lambs." The previous night, he had asked the audience if they found the film funny, a man cutting up women and wearing their skin as coats. Because he happened to think it was hysterical. The crowd oohed. Hicks described the movie's advertising, which boasted that the film was so scary, viewers will hold their seats until their knuckles are white.
"That's the way I feel after I see Chevy Chase movies," said Hicks. "I pace the floor, I can't sleep, I'm frightened. Are they makin' another 'Fletch'? How does this guy do it -- is it a pact with the devil? Every one of his movies sucks. And then I go, 'Maybe they should, you know, skin Chevy Chase and put his skin on a funny person.'"
This, my friends, is the kind of thing that makes me wish I was still in school, 'cause a paper comparing Silence of the Lambs and 101 Dalmatians would be a total easy A, and maybe even a submission to the Journal of Popular Culture.
Another of his bits, he told me, was about the movie "Silence of the Lambs." The previous night, he had asked the audience if they found the film funny, a man cutting up women and wearing their skin as coats. Because he happened to think it was hysterical. The crowd oohed. Hicks described the movie's advertising, which boasted that the film was so scary, viewers will hold their seats until their knuckles are white.
"That's the way I feel after I see Chevy Chase movies," said Hicks. "I pace the floor, I can't sleep, I'm frightened. Are they makin' another 'Fletch'? How does this guy do it -- is it a pact with the devil? Every one of his movies sucks. And then I go, 'Maybe they should, you know, skin Chevy Chase and put his skin on a funny person.'"
This, my friends, is the kind of thing that makes me wish I was still in school, 'cause a paper comparing Silence of the Lambs and 101 Dalmatians would be a total easy A, and maybe even a submission to the Journal of Popular Culture.
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Date: 2002-03-13 09:38 am (UTC)