Humor Me, Here.

Working for a team of people in the entertainment industry who are essentially "executives" yet who have total creative say over content has been an extremely frustrating experience. I'm not saying I'm the final word on comedy or even that I'm an exceptionally talented writer but for the love of god, some of the shit that flies out of my bosses' mouths about what's "funny" truly blows my mind. Because god knows Irish chicks with backgrounds in corporate law and Israelis who were statistics majors in college are notorious for their biting wit. I guess my ego is a bit bruised because I was asked to take a stab at doing comedy punch up on the TV show our company is developing. And the jokes I wrote, which I thought were rather funny, were basically shit on by my bosses. That's fine, if they don't like what I wrote then so be it...that's theoretically how I feel. But no! Of course I want to be the best! I want to be the funniest fucking fat white kid raised in the suburbs there ever was! So I guess it comes as a crippling blow when a woman who thinks the South Park Movie was the last great thing to happen to American humor talks shit on jokes you've written. And forget comedy, these peoples' delusions about what's culturally contemporary is staggering in itself. There was a moment the other day where this boss of mine was compiling a list of "current" style references for artists in the hip hop industry. I look over at her computer and this list contains such sharply contemporary figures as MC Hammer, LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes...I'm gonna let that information really absorb for a minute. And might I add that if I have to hear them use the words "bling bling" or "rapper" any more in their honky-ass accents I might just eat a bag of pencil shavings and throw myself off the WB Water Tower. It's not just their opinions themselves that bother me either, but the fervor with which they argue them that really gets my goat. I guess I should have known this would be the case when in a development meeting for the first draft of a script my boss spent a good 30 minutes going over the typos in the action paragraphs. One more point I want to bring up is that these people are effectively the creative heads of this project and yet I'm 98% sure they don't watch television. I've never made a reference to a TV show that was met by any other response than "oh, really?". Now I don't want to paint some totally exaggerated picture of myself here as some salt of the earth, raw talent, diamond in the rough type who's just tragically overlooked because I'm just some dude who wants to tell dick jokes, but I just had to comment on the kind of people who have a platform to say what's funny in this business. It perturbs me to say the least. So, in a moment where I shall allow myself to be totally petulant, FUCK my bosses and their stupid fucking senses of humor. Or lack thereof. I think I'm hilarious and that's all that matters. Go and Like my last five Facebook statuses if you agree...kidding....kind of. Have a wonderful day and go generate your own comedy!