I was looking up clips from the Lonely Island guys; Akiva , Jorm and Andy Samberg from Saturday Night Live and "Hot Rod" fame when I saw something that pissed me off.
People on Youtube take ideas from the show and remake them. Over and over again.
They take the idea AND DON'T EVEN CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
They basically just re-shoot it or just do some basic editing on it using clips from other shows.
Where was I when everyone got so fucking lame?
My college TV show was never very popular but it had it's fans because it was VERY original.
We were doing cool little skits (and I continue to do cool little skits) based on our own ideas.
How the hell can anyone justify ripping someone else's ideas and call it a parody?
The worst example is the SNL skit where they make fun of the TV show The OC. People remade that skit and called it a parody...
...You can't do a word for word parody of a parody...
IT'S NOT A PARODY IT'S JUST BEING LAME AND STEALING SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEAS AND PUTTING YOUR NAME ON IT!
...sigh...
And there are HUNDREDS of these. I dunno I guess with the ease of digital media will come an increased amount of lame people stealing shit and calling it original. And nobody calls them on it. I would rather watch a halfway funny ORIGINAL IDEA than watch re-hash after re-hash.
We really need to get a truly original skit comedy show out there to show people how funny skit comedy can really be...
That's why I feel bad that the Lonely Island guys never were able to do their own show.
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3 comments:
Well, seems unlike the Dreamcast, originality is not undead...
originality isn't totally dead it's just one of those things that people have to see to understand.
I think that most people will get sick of the crap thats out there now and a whole new crop of people that deserve to be making media will provide better stuff.
It's just we are at the begining of the digital age where everyone with a computer who can edit material feels the need to do so even if they rip off good artists.
It's like when color photography first came out and people thought that only Blank and White photos were "art". It was just because there were so many new people using color photography.
Once color photo tech got alittle more mature orginal and inspired color photos became "art".
The same thing should happen to digital tech. People will realize what the good media is and what is complete crap.
On the other hand Citizen Kane came back in the infancy of cinema and frankly I can't be that optimistic about it.
15 years ago people where innovating with video games... Now, not.
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