{"id":2385,"date":"2008-04-07T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2008-04-07T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T13:53:28","slug":"note-to-comedy-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"Note to Comedy Central"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: Comedy Central
\nFrom: Mitch Berg
\nRe: Lewis Black<\/p>\n

To whom it may concern,<\/p>\n

It seems odd to be lecturing “Comedy Central” on the subject of comedy. But it seems intervention is in order.<\/p>\n

Lewis Black is not funny.<\/p>\n

He has never been <\/em>funny.<\/p>\n

He will never be <\/em>funny.<\/p>\n

I know – he’s supposed to be a “dyspeptic crank”.\u00a0 Sure, it could work; George Burns and George Allen and, what the hell, Dennis Leary have all made careers – and gotten a billion laughs – playing cranky misanthropes.<\/p>\n

The difference, of course, is that with each of ’em there was something behind the dyspepsia; something you could identify with.\u00a0 And I can’t even imagine the dissociative guy on the bus identifying with Black.
\nSummary: Lewis Black – not funny.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your consideration.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: Comedy Central From: Mitch Berg Re: Lewis Black To whom it may concern, It seems odd to be lecturing “Comedy Central” on the subject of comedy. But it seems intervention is in order. Lewis Black is not funny. He has never been funny. He will never be funny. I know – he’s supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}