Comedy Competition Part 5! (Blog 57)

Heinz! Ok, now that I’ve got that out of the way, let’s get onto the winner of the 5th comedy contest I’ve been running! That glorious legend of dreams (over promoting?) is Release the Clowns and his project is simply named ‘Episode 5’. You remember Ameratron, the winner of my first Wiede-fest, as I like to call it? Their entry for the latest Wiederama only just came in second. Simply for the sake of variety, I really didn’t want the same people to win twice, so at first I was planning to pick one of their weaker videos for my page, just in case they won again. Furthermore, doesn’t power corrupt? Imagine if the success got to the ‘Tron’s heads and they literally turned into an unstoppable, big headed Ameratron. I don’t know what that is, but it sounds terrifying, doesn’t it? I bet it would have missiles and gatling guns and stuff like that. How would I live with myself? However, I later watched the Clown’s entry, and I quite rightly thought that would win, so I didn’t have to worry about the end of the world or anything like that. Phew!

So, NOW I’ll go on about the victors! (More). Well, they have made lots of sketches in one video to look at. For starters, I’ll talk about the second skit. (Not exactly in logical order, but who cares?) Anyway, some of its dialogue was about stupid names for the police operation of catching a murderer. For example ‘operation sausage’ and ‘operation operation’. Sounds like something that could only happen in fiction? Nope. Ever heard of the potential alias of the ship ‘Boaty McBoat Face’? That nearly happened. Not easy to take seriously, is it? Imagine if we went to war with some country and that’s what they called their warships. Did their leader have a massive nervous breakdown, or does he just not care at all? In either case… WTF. Allied brains would be completely scrambled to say the least, and maybe that could be to their disadvantage. Either that, or they’ll just be motivated by the fact their apparently up against a load of erratic nutcases.

Ok, now I’ll say something for skit No. 1. (Now that I’ve thought of at least something). Filth. Pure filth. Same goes for the 7th one, actually. That leaves 3, 4, 5 and 6. (Actually, 4 is just a continuation of 2, so I’ll skip that, too. So, sketch 5, then. Well that’s filth as well, but in a different way. Does saying ‘fuck’ sound like mature comedy to you?? It’s not that I don’t know what to write, I’m just offended. Only joking, I do have writer’s block. Ohhh, you’ve twisted my arm. Professional Simon. Of course I’ll think of something to say, here goes: 5 is about a charity who wants the soon to be deceased’s money to go to them. Their sweary company name is far from ideal. However, ’fuckmyfamily.org’ isn’t a real website, because I’ve checked. It’s not that I was expecting it to be a genuine philanthropic organisation, but you never know for sure, do you? Remember Boaty McBoat Face? Anything can happen. Needless to say, the world is a better place for me, now that I still associate do-gooders (fictional or otherwise) with honest, respectable practices. Awesome.

Moving on to sketch 6, we have talking mice. Talking mice are always funny, I don’t really have to say much more. (But again, dutiable Simon, right?) Ok, so a tiny rodent planning important people things? That’s crazy. However, you can be rest assured that he drastically screwed his tasks up. It’s humbling to know that animals have flaws just like mankind. What’s all this nonsense about humans being the most destructive living organisms on Earth? Give a cat fingers and a machine gun, and what do you think will happen? I’ll tell you what: Bloodbath. Lastly, sketch No. 3 is about taking over the world and how hard it is. The Romans have tried, the Greeks have tried, the English have tried, etc. Let it go, it’s impossible to rule forever. Of course secret volcano bases are cool places to plot acts of war and things (and secret volcano basses are also pretty sweet if they exist, which I hope they do). But do you have any idea how many peace loving hippies are out there? Millions. Do you think you can get past all of them? Many of them are on drugs, giving them superhuman strength, even though temporary and eventually destructive to their already out-there minds. But temporary, nonetheless. That’s something, so good luck…

To sum up, here’s the video just discussed for you to enjoy… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1gxuZEpcI 15 minutes of comedy nourishment. Yes, I remembered to add the video, this time. To my eternal shame I forgot to add the music video to a music review I did for another site. No doubt I have annoyed a record label at least a little bit, but to be fair no other bands/enterprises have ever asked for films. Stop being greedy. Hang on, that’s not a summary, that’s going off topic. Yeah? Well, it’s my blog. :P Think I’m going to write about Release The Clowns, again? No, I’m going to list the ingredients of Innocent Smoothie’s strawberries and bananas product: 7 crushed strawberries (32%), 1/2 of a pressed apple, 13 pressed white grapes, 1/2 of a mashed banana (20%), a slice of a squeezed orange and 6 crushed blackcurrants.’ Why all the percentages weren’t given, I really don’t know. I never would have assumed it was for a sinister reason, but the ‘Innocent’ name is making me suspicious. Why say that? Only joking, I’m sure Innocent Smoothies are 100% law abiding and respectable. Once again, please don’t sue. Bye!