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Date Posted: 18:25:44 01/07/07 Sun
Author: Prateek S.
Subject: Grills, Bling, Beer, and a Leftover Luda-Review
In reply to: Patrick 's message, "REVIEWS: udacris 11/18/06" on 23:05:12 11/18/06 Sat

I had this incomplete review lying around for awhile so I thought I would finish it up. I've got 2 more on the way.

CO: I must say welcome to Mr. Dowbiggen, although I know you by another name on a different forum. I�m glad you are continuing to submit material, please keep it up. That said, you had a pretty standard Cold Opening. It wasn't die hard funny but it managed to get the point across and it came out stronger than SNL�s political openings. By the way, it�s spelled �Falafel�. I learned that from Bill O�Reilly!

Monologue: I actually had an idea similar to SNL�s monologue in which Ludacris introduces his protege who just struts around whooping and hollering and spitting.
The thing with this monologue is that, lesser known relatives asking for money wasn�t funny. The whole �Todd Bridges� related to Chris Bridges didn�t make any
sense. I don�t think they�re related. Sorry, but good try though.

Message from Butterball: Eh this was a so-so piece. For one thing it got bogged down with too many lines, I would have shortened it up a bit. It also played up the
same old �vegan-hating� gags that have been done before. A couple of the lines
describing the turkey�s ugliness were funny but in the end, it just fell flat.

Deal or No Deal: �Deal or No Deal� game show parodies have been beaten to death so this pretty much fell flat with me. I did like how Howie said he would pay the 10 dollar difference and how he would slit his wrists. Perhaps if this had been posted in March or April when Deal first came on then it would have had a better effect.

Stranger Than Fiction 2: Yeah this parody just didn�t work with me. Not that Will Ferrell can�t be made fun of I think the movie trailer approach fell flat.

WU: I�m glad we had some more material this week. There were 3 commentaries and I wrote the Ludacris one. The other 2 were mildly humourous at best. Focused on a few lines of payoff but that dampered the whole bit. I think the reason they fail is because we turn them into long jokes instead of short form interaction. There were a few jokes I liked but overall it was still heavily uneven this week. We definitely need to get our game up.

Genesis: I�m not familiar with Genesis, but nonetheless the sketch didn�t really take off. I thought it was a good idea, a preacher using crazy lyrics for the
hymns. I would have played around with that more in the sketch. Have him use commercial jingles, or weird phrases in his sermon and then get reactions of the audience.

Confession: This was a so-so sketch, Jim. It had some laughable lines especially the ones about his skin color being recessive. My biggest problem was that it was
still too predictable. The �everyone sees it except one guy� type of sketch is kind of redundant. Good attempt but in the end it just didn't click, sorry.

Waiting for the PS3: Not bad, probably would have been better if I heard the song. Some of the lyrics could have rhymed a bit more. I prefer to use rhyming couplets when I do a song. But still a solid jab at Gamers and a great musical piece. Mark, you are still a go-to-guy for musical pieces.

Night of Latino Dead: Horror movie spoofs are really getting old. They would have to be uber creative to really get the comedic punch across. Tackling the immigration issue is a bit dated but I liked the line about the dirty jobs. I swear I�ve seen something like this before but it was about the same quality as this. Pretty standard stuff in the end, but still good try for a newcomer.

Black Bond: I would have liked to see a Black Bond sketch, I think with all of the jabs at �blaxploitation� it would have worked. The one-liner titles were quite humurous. These would have been great for the whole Bond sketch. So to sum it up, it was greatm but could have been expanded into something bigger and better.

So here's the first of my 3 reviews. Again, please, please, review! They are much appreciated!

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