"jarring and shocking without necessarily being funny" sum up O'Donoghue's career perfectly. Me have favorite quote from him, "making people laugh is lowest form of comedy," but he also not seem that interested in making people think or feel anything or understand human nature. He just like pushing buttons for sake of pushing buttons. And his comedy rarely go further than "hey, aren't you offended?!? Aren't you? Please?"
In 70s, you could be asshole just for sake of being asshole and hide behind "but this is my art, maaaan, you just not understand!" And it entirely positive development that we as culture are finally starting to age out of that.
Now that me think about it, spoof of Tár where, instead of being brilliant conductor, toxic person's genius is just them making skits about lasers coming out of women's boobies, sound like sketch SNL would do.
I remember seeing this creepy bit O’Donoghue did called "Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Fairy Tales", where he told a gross fairy tale to Guest Host Jodie Foster while pretty much perving her the whole time. Foster, unsurprisingly, was already a seasoned pro and took his increasingly distasteful advances on her in stride....
"jarring and shocking without necessarily being funny" sum up O'Donoghue's career perfectly. Me have favorite quote from him, "making people laugh is lowest form of comedy," but he also not seem that interested in making people think or feel anything or understand human nature. He just like pushing buttons for sake of pushing buttons. And his comedy rarely go further than "hey, aren't you offended?!? Aren't you? Please?"
In 70s, you could be asshole just for sake of being asshole and hide behind "but this is my art, maaaan, you just not understand!" And it entirely positive development that we as culture are finally starting to age out of that.
Now that me think about it, spoof of Tár where, instead of being brilliant conductor, toxic person's genius is just them making skits about lasers coming out of women's boobies, sound like sketch SNL would do.
It reminds me of skits HS Juniors would write and go film with their dad's new vhs camera. "Let's throw cats in a pool!"
"Cool! Think we could steal some bras and pretend they are like... laser bras!"
"Boobs are funny. You know they say Lord in church a lot. What if it was Jack Lord?"
"Back to the laser bras - do you think some TV comic will steal the idea for boobs that shoot things for a spy spoof in like 25 years?"
"Of course, it's a genius idea."
I feel, however, that fans of this film would see this comparison to HS Juniors as a complement.
I remember seeing this creepy bit O’Donoghue did called "Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Fairy Tales", where he told a gross fairy tale to Guest Host Jodie Foster while pretty much perving her the whole time. Foster, unsurprisingly, was already a seasoned pro and took his increasingly distasteful advances on her in stride....
This show was awesome when I was a kid