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My Hitler Documentary is Finally Complete!

#8
I am really starting to not like Bass Players.

Tasteless?

It was an elaborate setup for a pun.

"Many people thought the Hitler's to be a quiet, unassuming sort of couple, but as it turns out, they were capable of raising quite the Fuehrer (furor.)"

It was done in the style of Monty Python, and ended with a Wilhelm Scream, which is a stock scream done in films, usually when a person is injured, and then falls. Look it up!

Anyway, if you have to explain it, then I guess it's not that funny, but TASTELESS????

What, Hitler jokes are insensitive?

Wow, I should really re-think making fun of those poor, over abused NAZIS.
 
#9
mellowinman said:
I am really starting to not like Bass Players.

Tasteless?

It was an elaborate setup for a pun.

"Many people thought the Hitler's to be a quiet, unassuming sort of couple, but as it turns out, they were capable of raising quite the Fuehrer (furor.)"

It was done in the style of Monty Python, and ended with a Wilhelm Scream, which is a stock scream done in films, usually when a person is injured, and then falls. Look it up!

Anyway, if you have to explain it, then I guess it's not that funny, but TASTELESS????

What, Hitler jokes are insensitive?

Wow, I should really re-think making fun of those poor, over abused NAZIS.
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Seriously though, I want to thank everyone who took a few seconds to watch it. My idea of humor is not for everyone, and you helped remind me of something truly important.

Ultimately, we create our art for ourselves, and just desperately hope someone can appreciate it.

I shot the original footage for that in 1996, as part of a Basic Cable show I used to do, and added the "baby Hitler" photo and Wilhelm Scream last night.

It was originally part of a segue between sketches.

The segue, or "link section," in its original form is here:



It then went into a black and white mystery movie that made even less sense than the Hitler piece.
 
#11
Oh, and it's sort of a rule that puns are the lowest form of humor, so that's why I (deservedly) get punched by a big boxing glove.

I didn't have the reflexes to react correctly to a fake punch. We took it about ten times, and it looked awful, and so I said, "go ahead and punch me." After all, I've been punched MANY times by bare fists, so a big, giant boxing glove isn't going to be a big deal.

And finally, cutting from the footage to the narrator is a "fourth wall" type of comedy. Basically, you are suddenly seeing the narrator of the piece, and someone comes along and punches him with a big glove.

I didn't really think it was all that complicated!

And it STILL cracks me up, especially now that I've inserted the "Baby Hitler" photo!

I guess I'm just weird, but hey, before I was ever a bass player, I was a lead singer/songwriter/guitar player and BAND LEADER.

:)
 
#12
Chainsaw Willie said:
Monty Python is exactly what I was thinking as soon as I heard the over-stuffy narrator and saw the baby with a mustache.

And now I am laughing again because spell check corrected my spelling of "mustache" as "moist ache".
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I was trying to do sort of a Churchill, and I think it came off as a bad Australian accent.

Nothing worse than a moist ache, though!
 
#13
Well, I have to admit I didn't get the pun. "Furor" isn't one of those words that's on the surface of my vocabulary. I also had no idea it was meant as a segue between two comedy sketches. Context, man!

It kind of reminded me of something Bill Zebub would do, and I actually think that goofball is funny!

As for being more than just a bass player, I think quite a lot of us could say that, and I doubt instrument diversity has anything to do with people's capacity to find things humorous.
 

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