… … . Wow… (Blog 426)

This is a worldwide story now and most know about it, but I just had to comment on it as it’s completely MENTAL. So yeah, you’ve probably heard of the ‘Willy Wonka’ show in Scotland where people were promised a world of wonder by the runner of the event, Billy Coull. Instead, they got an almost empty warehouse that had about 10 WW themed props; I think three traumatised actors who genuinely tried to make the best of their situations (which in itself, let’s face it, was hilarious); and half a cup of lemonade and a jelly bean for everyone. However, apparently a performer felt bad and gave three jelly beans. The website advertising the event was completely generated by A.I. and featured a dozen or so words that had just been made up. Here’s one for you: Catgacating. That would be surprising in most situations, but Billy who describes himself as ‘enigmatic’ (something that I do agree with) has released 17 A.I. generated books in the last year, and I think they’ve all been given 1 star. Someone who actually read a whole book complains ‘the sun sets a grand total of 15 times in this 61 page book’. I’m not sure why that’s a bad thing, but the reviewer’s got a hell of a lot of thumbs up. I guess it’s a lot of sun sets, but in Bill’s defence, it is plausible. I’m assuming the novel had far worse flaws than that.

I was thinking to myself the person running the event must have been abused as a child. It’s certainly not the kind of thing a normal person would do, obviously. Was that his parent’s idea of a day out or something? Maybe something like ‘it’s your birthday! Have a jelly been and less than a glass, BUT more than a quarter of a glass of lemonade from Tescos!’ or wherever it was from. That doesn’t make it right, I’m just looking for some explanation. To be fair, as explained the event had at least SOME props and, this is just a theory, maybe that also shows his parents tried at least a little bit on his birthday. Maybe they got him some lemonade, a bean AND a fake bar of chocolate like the one seen in the event. To be fair though, the fake bar was actually pretty big. Then again, that only makes the abuse worse as it subconsciously makes you hungrier.

There was at least some creativity with the A.I. in the show script, as a new character found its way into it that has nothing to do with Willy Wonka. The visitors were treated to a semi-dancing, evil chocolate maker called ‘the unknown’ who lives in the walls? Sounds dumb and it was. It COULD have worked maybe, but it certainly needs an explanation and as far as I’m aware none was given. So it was random. I’m glad AI sucks so much at writing stories! Now I don’t feel quite so threatened. However, it’s entirely possible the runner of the event thought to himself ‘screw it’ and used the worst A.I. imaginable. I’ve had better ideas come from random word generators, that being the Wiedemanncomedy super star we all know as the dominant egg. The solitary and creepy Unknown reminds me of the mole people who live in the underground of cities. If such a hobo did a funny dance when I saw him, I’d be even more scared. You have to feel at least a little bit sorry for the poorer families who got scammed, but on the plus side the more well off (or perhaps the more mentally healthy) seemed to at least partially see the funny side.

I certainly have, I’ve watched loads of videos about the event, some repeatedly. It’s like the Who Wants to be a Millionaire scandal where a very intelligent, high ranking military man thought he could get away with having someone in the audience cough to signal right answers, so that the person playing the game knew when answer to say. However, the person in the audience coughed very, very clearly, too clearly, over and over again. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Moving on, it’s Big Brother season again. I don’t really even want to watch the program, but I feel I have to know what happens. It’s probably just going to end up with everyone shouting again. The opening event was on yesterday, and for an hour, I just watched people enter a house! See what I mean?? That shouldn’t be classed as entertainment, but what if I miss a HUGE argument??? That would be good. Lastly, I will be going to the London Comedy Writer’s meeting, today. Will I pay back the guy serving drinks in the pub downstairs? I’m probably just going to try and go noticed, to be honest. Right, blog over, bye!