Blog 322 (Contest Blog 58)

Because I didn’t want to weird out Matt Jones by blogging about him again, I decided to contact Shawn Parke once more! Sure, most comedians like being promoted, but not when you read what I have to say this month! So, the latter’s video! Watching the computerised swimming in it will be one of the most pointless and boring things you’ll ever do in your life, as not only is there no real action it’s not even real. Negatives out the way, I’m assuming so little effort was put into the visuals because it doesn’t really matter - the video is more like a podcast, just with basic images. If Shawn DID put lots of effort into the images, I sincerely apologise. Maybe you’d get some comfort by looking at some of the computerised drawings that I’ve worked on. Not so good. (And remember, that was stuff I was willing to show).

And even if I DIDN’T like Shawn’s stuff (on the whole), just look at some of the positive comments he’s got on Youtube. First up, there’s: ‘man this opens things to a hole new level! (heart)’. An excellent use of pun there, (trust me on that) not from Shawn, but it shows that his audience are intelligent and know their stuff. And check out THIS comment: ‘HAHAHHAHA’. In most cases, a simple ‘Haha’ is all a comedian would get, but capitalised with use of repetition? Nice. And note the two Hs together. The mistake implies the comment was written very quickly with a ton of enthusiasm. I hate to blow my own trumpet, but a very astute observation, no? Sometimes I think I could work for the FBI of comedy. (If that’s a thing, of course). As in ‘Oh no! A shop has been robbed, and a note simply saying ‘Lol’ has been left. What do you think happened?’ Then I’d be like ‘Dunno.’ Actually, that would be some of my finest work when compared to my efforts as a care worker. Let’s leave it at that.

And even better, Mr. Parke is cool as a cucumber! How did he respond to such praise? Did he go ‘Oh my God, yes! I’m so excited!’ like I would? Nope. He simply gave a smiley face! And not the more manic :D either, but a more chilled :) . He’s the kind of person you’d want to be with in a crisis. A comedy crisis. Perhaps where a clown-magician lets his pet rabbit go and it goes ape on everyone. At the same time, he’s not too serious. He’s not the kind of person to give the captured rabbit a prolonged lecture, as who wants to see that? Birthday party completely spoiled as memorable as it would be. I wouldn’t want to see it, either. I’m not perfect however, I would give it an evil stare for at least five minutes to get my point across. Crucially rabbits have good memories. Give an evil look to a goldfish on the other hand, and it would just think you’re a twat. And sadly it would never remember all the good times you had together, either. Anywho, check out Shawn’s video, below! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxo6eBTBqqM

Now to change the subject! I’m not sure how I’m going to do that as I’ve used up all my ideas on interviews and blogs, but where there’s a will there’s a way, right? The will in this case being a dull life with nothing else to do but write. (Although I am looking forward to a burger later). Maybe I could talk about washing my car? Yes, against all reason I’ve written about that, too. Again, that will be one of the main events of the day. Pain is hidden in humour. I STILL haven’t got a working car and can’t even go to the shops and carry bags back with me. (Unless I walk, which won’t happen). The up side of that however, is my dad is buying all my food for me. Oh, if he just realised all he had to do was use my credit card. Shhhh… To be fair, I do have a bit of freedom in that I can cycle to the gym, but that’s the level of freedom ten year olds have. Woohoo. And on that unhappy note… bye!