Well that cinches it for me. I’m voting for Judy ! I have been undecided up til now but as a white affluent hispanic sympathizer I’m sold !! GO JBT !!!
This has the potential for funny, but looks like a stand-up bit still in the early evolving stages. It’s one thing to create an impression of a character, it’s another to actually create some funny reactions of the character to ordinary topics or stimuli. The partying with George was okay, but seemed afraid to take things to a logical conclusion. Lots of starts, few finishes. Promise but little payoff. Here’s a couple take-off points for fleshing out the routine:
What Judy brings to a kid’s seventh-grade birthday party; coffee and smokes.
She’s in a pitch meeting to republican fundraisers
She’s had to settle for a debate run by a sixth grade civics class. The opponent is a student who bursts into tears after each round of argument.
She is writing in her diary as if everything Blagos ads say were true, and worse. As in: “Dear Journal; stomped some cute kittens today, then called Dick Cheney for personality tips. For lunch Tuned in on cable to my secret love, the Mets. After work bowled a 250 game, but Blago swept the points to cover a scoring deficit in his lane. Tomorrow I plan on stealing bread from the mouths of orphans and beds out from under retired veterans, gotta get up early, so good night and sweet dreams”.
Or, a funny routine would be outtakes of Judy campaign spots you never got to see (that’s why we’ve seen so few):
These could be multiple re-takes where she goes off-script in the middle of the commercial and speaks her mind about the topic of the moment, and it’s too frank to be useable.
Rich Little made a fortune and had a very successful career, impersonating the influential and famous. His Success and income were based on the popularity and visibility of those he mimicked. Like Dean Martin’s celebrity roasts, rarely were the skits flattering. However week after week those who were being mimicked, usually not with their best attributes. ( Jimmy Stewarts stutter) accepted this with humility and pride as a wonderful lighthearted form of flattery at its best.
Average impersonation, average comedic value. Unless you hate Judy, which clearly some of you do, there were really only a couple of funny lines in the whole skit. “Didn’t know he was fleecing the state” funny line, “Only the white and affluent ones”, funny line “I’m the god$%&n treasurer what to do want me to do keep watch on the money” funny line, otherwise the only laughs she got was when she dropped the f-bomb (oh and the crazy puppet thing at the end).
Basically a C grade at best. I don’t know if this was open mic night, or whether she is a professional comedian, but someone needs to tell her that there is a short, fat, white, 26 year old from Washington Illinois who works second shift, lives with his parents, and wants to remodel Illinois that is way funnier than she is.
- Citizen A - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 4:39 pm:
Well that cinches it for me. I’m voting for Judy ! I have been undecided up til now but as a white affluent hispanic sympathizer I’m sold !! GO JBT !!!
- T.J. - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 4:42 pm:
“Baar” really is not that difficult to spell.
- Bill - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 5:00 pm:
What a graat commercial. It is Judy’s best work by far and the most honest.
- BillLovesJudy - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 5:35 pm:
This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen since I’ve been alive.
- JakeCP - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 5:48 pm:
Since I am not sensitive I think that was funny. Since I really do support JBT I don’t know how I should feel.
- Scott Fawell's Cellmate - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 6:41 pm:
Funny stuff. She has JBT’s rhythm down pat and you can just hear the words coming from JBT’s mouth, “okay.”
- St. Nick name - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 6:55 pm:
Darn, I wish I had seen that before I wrote in Tim Nuekirk.
- Snark - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 6:58 pm:
Yeah, but what about before that?
- Shelbyville - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 7:39 pm:
I don’t get it. I give it one star.
- Gregor - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 8:27 pm:
This has the potential for funny, but looks like a stand-up bit still in the early evolving stages. It’s one thing to create an impression of a character, it’s another to actually create some funny reactions of the character to ordinary topics or stimuli. The partying with George was okay, but seemed afraid to take things to a logical conclusion. Lots of starts, few finishes. Promise but little payoff. Here’s a couple take-off points for fleshing out the routine:
What Judy brings to a kid’s seventh-grade birthday party; coffee and smokes.
She’s in a pitch meeting to republican fundraisers
She’s had to settle for a debate run by a sixth grade civics class. The opponent is a student who bursts into tears after each round of argument.
She is writing in her diary as if everything Blagos ads say were true, and worse. As in: “Dear Journal; stomped some cute kittens today, then called Dick Cheney for personality tips. For lunch Tuned in on cable to my secret love, the Mets. After work bowled a 250 game, but Blago swept the points to cover a scoring deficit in his lane. Tomorrow I plan on stealing bread from the mouths of orphans and beds out from under retired veterans, gotta get up early, so good night and sweet dreams”.
- Gregor - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 8:31 pm:
Or, a funny routine would be outtakes of Judy campaign spots you never got to see (that’s why we’ve seen so few):
These could be multiple re-takes where she goes off-script in the middle of the commercial and speaks her mind about the topic of the moment, and it’s too frank to be useable.
- Truth - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 8:32 pm:
Very funny. Looks like just the kind of rough lady we need to clean up the sewer of Illinois politics.
- Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 8:52 pm:
Kicks the crap out of the Edgar ad she’d been running.
toss in a “robble, robble” and it’d be pure gold
- colt 45 - Thursday, Oct 26, 06 @ 10:16 pm:
Man, that was TERrible. not funny at all. i’d have asked for my money back. jeez that sucked. gawd.
- Blogopster - Friday, Oct 27, 06 @ 12:44 am:
Rich Little made a fortune and had a very successful career, impersonating the influential and famous. His Success and income were based on the popularity and visibility of those he mimicked. Like Dean Martin’s celebrity roasts, rarely were the skits flattering. However week after week those who were being mimicked, usually not with their best attributes. ( Jimmy Stewarts stutter) accepted this with humility and pride as a wonderful lighthearted form of flattery at its best.
- NoMilkForMe - Friday, Oct 27, 06 @ 7:32 am:
Crazy Aunt Judy seems to have more personality, bandwidth and CPU than the person she is impersonating.
- Jaded - Friday, Oct 27, 06 @ 9:55 am:
Average impersonation, average comedic value. Unless you hate Judy, which clearly some of you do, there were really only a couple of funny lines in the whole skit. “Didn’t know he was fleecing the state” funny line, “Only the white and affluent ones”, funny line “I’m the god$%&n treasurer what to do want me to do keep watch on the money” funny line, otherwise the only laughs she got was when she dropped the f-bomb (oh and the crazy puppet thing at the end).
Basically a C grade at best. I don’t know if this was open mic night, or whether she is a professional comedian, but someone needs to tell her that there is a short, fat, white, 26 year old from Washington Illinois who works second shift, lives with his parents, and wants to remodel Illinois that is way funnier than she is.