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Date Posted: 03:39:00 02/11/05 Fri
Author: CCS
Subject: Re: The Lost Art of Writing a Review (3)
In reply to: CCS 's message, "The Lost Art of Writing a Review (2)" on 03:15:17 02/10/05 Thu

I decided to skip WU, cause I always seem to get bogged down on it. Here now is the final six sketches. I gotta say, I was really impressed with some of the material we churned out this week. I was expecting much less imaginative stuff, but we definitely tossled this host around. As an addendum to the previous review, I've decided that DRG4's "Be Careful What You "Wish" For" sketch is a lot more offensive to Paris than I original graphed. I mean, she has sex with an underage boy, and ultimately murders him through venereal diseases, while playing herself! Move that bar up to 95!

<center>Go Fish
by Jen</center>

I'm not real sure the poo business helped out this sketch, it was doing quite fine until it started jumping into the conversation. For the most part, the sketch does a fine job of relating the world of dating in fish terms. Sometimes it does try a little too hard, in the case of the bubble IM's; you're probably better off just giving them cell phones and text messages. I liked the theme of gold-digging, however, it's probably the one loose thing Paris isn't guilty of. She'd probably be slightly embarassed about being a fish and then getting caught, but the tone of the sketch put's her character in a good light and fairly desirable so far as fish go. I'd say it would also be quite a difficult role for her as well.

<center><TABLE WIDTH="600" BORDER="3" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BGCOLOR="A0B0A0" BORDERCOLOR="4D4D88">
<TH colspan="2">Difficulty</TH><TH colspan="2">Humiliation</TH><TR><TD WIDTH="150" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>50</center></td><td width="150" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"> .</td><TD WIDTH="15" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>5</center></td><td BGCOLOR="B0B0D0" width="285"> .</td></tr></table></center>

<center>This Week On Dr. Phil..
by Mark Jennings Reese II</center>

Credit where credit is due: this was much more fleshed out than I expected. Normally, I'd expect just one or two guests, but this is a full-on sketch with five segments. I liked the ones where he gives advice that is no help at all, but there were a few just headed for shock factor that I wasn't as down with. The "It's What I Do" comment helps tie the sketch together and is played off well at the end. Simple role with substantial humiliation for Paris.

<center><TABLE WIDTH="600" BORDER="3" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BGCOLOR="A0B0A0" BORDERCOLOR="4D4D88">
<TH colspan="2">Difficulty</TH><TH colspan="2">Humiliation</TH><TR><TD WIDTH="20" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>7</center></td><td width="280" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"> .</td><TD WIDTH="150" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>50</center></td><td BGCOLOR="B0B0D0" width="150"> .</td></tr></table></center>

<center>Blue Candle Valley Nature Tours
by Cash Car Star</center>

I thought I was writing a role here that Paris could perform. Not the case though. The second half of her lines are all supposed to be delivered with her eyes shut - fat chance on that. Biting off your own thumb and then enjoying drinking the spouting blood has got to be humiliating.

<center><TABLE WIDTH="600" BORDER="3" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BGCOLOR="A0B0A0" BORDERCOLOR="4D4D88">
<TH colspan="2">Difficulty</TH><TH colspan="2">Humiliation</TH><TR><TD WIDTH="75" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>25</center></td><td width="225" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"> .</td><TD WIDTH="180" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>60</center></td><td BGCOLOR="B0B0D0" width="120"> .</td></tr></table></center>

<center>Irrational Domesticators
by Chelsea Almany</center>

I'd offer Paris another pineapple martini, but as this is just a commercial, there probably wouldn't be time to drink it properly, what with the time spent arranging the paper umbrellas... Anyway, this was a fun little piece that pokes FOX right in the eye with what they have definitely done in the past in a silly way. Awkward long phrases can be very funny when used properly like this. The quick take on Lost to close out the sketch works great.

<center><TABLE WIDTH="600" BORDER="3" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BGCOLOR="A0B0A0" BORDERCOLOR="4D4D88">
<TH colspan="2">Difficulty</TH><TH colspan="2">Humiliation</TH><TR><TD WIDTH="0" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center></center></td><td width="300" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"><center>Wooo, no Paris!</center></td><TD WIDTH="0" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center></center></td><td width="300" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"><center>Wooo, no Paris!</center></td></tr></table></center>

<center>Reinhold Daycare
by Jason Dignard</center>

I think you have enough of a sketch here, conflict-wise, without the Judge Reinhold stuff. The Reinhold explanation just slows your sketch down and puts off the good stuff, in my view. Otherwise, you do a good job slowly building to the reveal of the next-door studio. A few more crazy antics are always welcome, but as it is, this is a very stable sketch with a funny ending. The price problem was a smart way to go. The last line about the cattle prod kills me. Paris is a porn star... accurate, yet humiliating. There's some acting, and not just reading to go along with this part, so I'd say it's partly outside her range.

<center><TABLE WIDTH="600" BORDER="3" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BGCOLOR="A0B0A0" BORDERCOLOR="4D4D88">
<TH colspan="2">Difficulty</TH><TH colspan="2">Humiliation</TH><TR><TD WIDTH="54" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>18</center></td><td width="246" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"> .</td><TD WIDTH="225" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>75</center></td><td BGCOLOR="B0B0D0" width="25"> .</td></tr></table></center>

<center>Young Hollywood Awards
by Ryder</center>

Wow, quite a lot of nasty talk amongst the girlies. I'm not quite sure who half of these people are, and quite frankly, I like to keep it that way. As such, I'm not really the best audience for this sketch. I'd like to give a better review, but I can't, I just don't know who's being impersonated enough to make any judgements on tone (aren't these girls all of extremely disparate ages (for kids)? I wouldn't guess some of them to be peers, which is what I would expect a sketch like this to need). Paris gets to play a little girl entwined in some vicious, though venial, cat-fighting, which isn't really that embarassing or scathing to her personally.

<center><TABLE WIDTH="600" BORDER="3" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" BGCOLOR="A0B0A0" BORDERCOLOR="4D4D88">
<TH colspan="2">Difficulty</TH><TH colspan="2">Humiliation</TH><TR><TD WIDTH="45" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>15</center></td><td width="255" BGCOLOR="B0B0D0"> .</td><TD WIDTH="30" BGCOLOR="4D4D88"><center>10</center></td><td BGCOLOR="B0B0D0" width="270"> .</td></tr></table></center>

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