Thursday, May 06, 2004
The Malins
Last night really got off to a shitty start. The Lakers got burned by Tony Parker and are now down 0-2 in their best of seven series with the Spurs and the season finale of The O.C. sucked big fat donkey balls. Words fail to describe how inept and worthless that hour of television was. So things were lame until...
My friends and I are discussing, in passing, the sexual harrassment case that a former writer's assistant on "Friends" is filing against the Friends' writing staff. This woman's motives and thought process are in serious question given that she didn't make a peep about feeling "uncomfortable" there until after she wasn't working. Very suspicious, but also very ignorant on her part to think that men don't act crudely amongst each other, ESPECIALLY when they are confiding to private meetings about a flippant yet dull sitcom. Anyway, we're talking about it and we come to find out that this woman's laundry list of complaints are on the internet. God bless thesmokinggun.com.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0423041friends1.html
After perousing the list and cackling hysterically at some of the things these writers did and said, one thing became painfully clear to us: Friends staff writer, Greg Malins, is a comic genius who apparently, given the lack of funny in Friends, is completely untalented. But what I would give to work with this guy! To have writer's meetings with him! It would be a party. Read the list on the link I posted above and tell me I'm wrong. I dare you. Favorite examples of his brilliance include:
a. hitting the bottom of the desk, pretending to masturbate furiously
b. continuously suggesting that they turn the character of Joey into a serial rapist (Friends would instantly be worth watching, then)
c. scribbling and changing the "Friends" header on the script so that it read "Penis," then showing it to the assistant and joking that "This is the most important thing you'll ever learn."
The hits go on. You won't be disappointed. The Malins. Truly, a great man.
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My friends and I are discussing, in passing, the sexual harrassment case that a former writer's assistant on "Friends" is filing against the Friends' writing staff. This woman's motives and thought process are in serious question given that she didn't make a peep about feeling "uncomfortable" there until after she wasn't working. Very suspicious, but also very ignorant on her part to think that men don't act crudely amongst each other, ESPECIALLY when they are confiding to private meetings about a flippant yet dull sitcom. Anyway, we're talking about it and we come to find out that this woman's laundry list of complaints are on the internet. God bless thesmokinggun.com.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0423041friends1.html
After perousing the list and cackling hysterically at some of the things these writers did and said, one thing became painfully clear to us: Friends staff writer, Greg Malins, is a comic genius who apparently, given the lack of funny in Friends, is completely untalented. But what I would give to work with this guy! To have writer's meetings with him! It would be a party. Read the list on the link I posted above and tell me I'm wrong. I dare you. Favorite examples of his brilliance include:
a. hitting the bottom of the desk, pretending to masturbate furiously
b. continuously suggesting that they turn the character of Joey into a serial rapist (Friends would instantly be worth watching, then)
c. scribbling and changing the "Friends" header on the script so that it read "Penis," then showing it to the assistant and joking that "This is the most important thing you'll ever learn."
The hits go on. You won't be disappointed. The Malins. Truly, a great man.
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