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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Oh my god, he said that? Not exactly that, but he was testing the act in comedy clubs across the country for years, and became obsessed with it after becoming friends with Deepak Chopra, saying that it was more than just a comedy character, but a beacon of love, joy, and self-acceptance. In a movie where Justin Timberlake is a hockey player with a big dick named Jacque Le Coq Grande.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Fake names is itself kind of a beautiful and underappreciated art. Hortense is no Hootly Weedn.
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Wasn't Mike Meyers also going to host a gameshow in character with the whole premise being no one would know it's him until the end?
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Inzombiac posted:Wasn't Mike Meyers also going to host a gameshow in character with the whole premise being no one would know it's him until the end? He did it for the Gong Show renewal a couple of years ago. They went like 6 months before "revealing" (people knew though) that the host was him in costume.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Fake names is itself kind of a beautiful and underappreciated art. The fake names of lots of bit characters in Arrested Development were so funny. The one-armed lessons man J Walter Weatherman, the reporter Trisha Thoon, the FBI mole Cindi Lightballoon, etc.
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I like in John Wick Chapter 2 when he actually kills someone with a pencil. After the fact he does this little look like "loving really?"
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Gromit posted:Hortense is no Hootly Weedn. Van Dis posted:The fake names of lots of bit characters in Arrested Development were so funny. The one-armed lessons man J Walter Weatherman, the reporter Trisha Thoon, the FBI mole Cindi Lightballoon, etc. Arrested Development and The Office both did a pretty great job with fake names.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Arrested Development and The Office both did a pretty great job with fake names.
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Van Dis posted:The fake names of lots of bit characters in Arrested Development were so funny. The one-armed lessons man J Walter Weatherman, the reporter Trisha Thoon, the FBI mole Cindi Lightballoon, etc. Gene Parmesan and Stanley Sitwell were my favourites. The ultimate being Bob Loblaw, and his law blog.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Gene Parmesan and Stanley Sitwell were my favourites. The best part about Bob Loblaw's law blog? Shortly before the character debuted, a Robert Loblaw put up a blog about actual legal decisions on Blogspot http://web.archive.org/web/20060114101505/http://www.appellatedecisions.blogspot.com/
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Phy posted:The best part about Bob Loblaw's law blog? Shortly before the character debuted, a Robert Loblaw put up a blog about actual legal decisions on Blogspot holy moly
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Gene Parmesan and Stanley Sitwell were my favourites. They just got lazy later on though. George Maharris? Awful
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mojo1701a posted:And I agree with the overuse of jokes. I watched old SNL sketches with him, and certain jokes like not being able to control THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE was used at least once there. There may have been a few others, but I don't remember. It's been a while. this is just SNL in general, especially in the 90s oh hey look adam sandler is doing weird voice boy again haha this time he is singing it
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Strom Cuzewon posted:They just got lazy later on though. George Maharris? Awful That was a reference to an actor in the 60s
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Strom Cuzewon posted:They just got lazy later on though. George Maharris? Awful Excuse me, that's the same season that had Perfecto Telles.  And wasn't the 'Maharis' basically George Michael trying to think up a fake name, and accidentally landing on a real name?See, even the boring sounding fake names have depth to them. EDIT: Phy posted:The best part about Bob Loblaw's law blog? Shortly before the character debuted, a Robert Loblaw put up a blog about actual legal decisions on Blogspot Oh wow... do you think the real Bob Loblaw would have enough to lob a law bomb towards Mitch Hurwitz and the show? I mean, if they ripped him off.... .... what a low blow. Rupert Buttermilk has a new favorite as of 13:19 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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How quickly we forget washed up junkie actress DeBrie Bardeaux
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Or formerly portly Portney Courtnoy.
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Every now and again I get in a weird mood and make up names of Southern American types who are really into BBQ. Collected in a thread here, if anyone wants to know what a British guy thinks Americans call their kids: https://twitter.com/Brainmage/status/1099971719945773057
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Krispy Wafer posted:I still like Meyers. He just got way too famous for his limited shtick. He's probably happier now without Wayne's World and Austin Powers expectations. Too Funny To Fail on hulu is great for those who haven't seen it. If I remember right (which is iffy), they didn't actually need the sponsorship, they just thought it would be funny to be sponsored by something different each week. Everything around that show was a train wreck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDjnAdczQI Friend has a new favorite as of 22:17 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:Fake names is itself kind of a beautiful and underappreciated art. You need to watch Toast of London immediately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bc8PbBpUgA (sorry for poo poo video quality) Barry Foster has a new favorite as of 16:02 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Okay, that will definitely gently caress with your career. I hadn't seen him in anything for years, but watching his Netflix standup reminded me how funny he could be. Up until that point he had been delegated to the Rick Moranis wing of my childhood memories. His episode of Norm McDonalds podcast is legit one of the funniest thing i have ever listened.
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Metalocalypse has a lot of "specialists" that consult with the bad guy council, and they all have ridiculous unpronounceable keysmash names because Brendon Small wanted to make Mark Hamill say them. https://youtu.be/4IJRvvOPA08 This is just the first season, they get way worse(/better) later.
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There's a subtlety to Revenge of the Sith that I've always liked (I'm not sure if it's intentional or not): part of Palpatine's appeal to Anakin was promising that he'd "help save Padme" with ancient Sith techniques. When Anakin finally turns, one of the first things Palpatine does is backpedal on the Padme promise a bit - "Well, only one Sith has actually cheated death but I'm sure if we work together, we'll get it done". Whatever else Sith got wrong or dropped the ball on, I thought it rang pretty true that evil would entice you to its banner with promises it knew couldn't be kept, and then only add caveats after you were in so deep that it was too late to turn back.
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packetmantis posted:Metalocalypse has a lot of "specialists" that consult with the bad guy council, and they all have ridiculous unpronounceable keysmash names because Brendon Small wanted to make Mark Hamill say them. "Dr. Jonathan Twinkletits" is good but pronouncing it "TWEEN kuh let its" is much much better.
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Dr Spaceman on 30 Rock was a great example of that joke, Chris Parnell would correct people “Dr Spa-CE-men”
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Flint_Paper posted:Every now and again I get in a weird mood and make up names of Southern American types who are really into BBQ. That's a pretty pro click you got there pilgrim
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My personal favorite fake name is from the “Prey” novels. Detective Del Capslock.
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Phy posted:That's a pretty pro click you got there pilgrim  Why thank you, Ashford Belwether. Good luck in the lobster-baking competition!
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CaptainCrunch posted:My personal favorite fake name is from the “Prey” novels. No love for Hiro Protagonist?
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AFewBricksShy posted:No love for Hiro Protagonist? This is like the billionth time I see a username on these forums, think nothing of it, and then find out it's from something else.
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My favorite names are from the obscure Wild Palms miniseries (and probably also the comic): Chickie Levitt Tully Woiwode Tabba Schwarzkopf Chap Starfall Dr. Tobias Schenkl Sen. Anton Kreutzer Gavin and Eileen Whitehope Tambor
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Barry Foster posted:You need to watch Toast of London immediately Absolutely. Not just that scene, but Toast of London has a lot of great moments in it, and the names are just one. I still love Ray Purchase, and his wife Mrs. Purchase. I'm laughing right now remembering the way Toast enunciates, "Raaay Purchaaaaase!" Lots of good names in that show. Peanut Butler posted:this is just SNL in general, especially in the 90s That's true, but I remember one sketch specifically that did that. The British-American Theatre Alliance sketch did that. It's been a while since I've watched it, but even Steve Martin did the, "There's a certain, as the French say, 'I don't know what'" which Doctor Evil says once. Then again, I might just be pedantic about that. minato posted:Weren't there two restaurants called "Skip Church's" and "Miss Temple", which were references to skiving off your weekly religious duties? Not only that, but the lines were, "You can find her every Friday night at Miss Temple's," and that people spent Sunday mornings at Skip Church's.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I still like Meyers. He just got way too famous for his limited shtick. He's probably happier now without Wayne's World and Austin Powers expectations. It also followed a very "family" show Home Improvement. It wasn't a great mix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDjnAdczQI
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Shawshank Redemption. When Hadley is arrested the detective reads off his notebook as he says the Miranda stuff. That part of the movie is set in 1966, when the Miranda Act has just come out, so not everyone had memorised it yet.
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Stay tuned for the Friday night movie, The Duchess Approves, starring Sturly Stembleburgiss as "The Duchess" and Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble as irascible coxswain "Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire!"
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HelleSpud posted:Stay tuned for the Friday night movie, The Duchess Approves, starring Sturly Stembleburgiss as "The Duchess" and Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble as irascible coxswain "Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire!" I have to link this one, because just reading it doesn't do it justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG8kBsHTGuE
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They said that when he was in the Nutty Professor in 1996 and then Shrek in 2001 and then Dreamgirls in 2006 and then Tower Heist in 2011 and then... I've always had a weird amount of respect for good performers who do lovely movies just to make money. Not sure whether Raul Julia or Jeremy "i just bought a castle" Irons is my favorite example.
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citybeatnik posted:I've always had a weird amount of respect for good performers who do lovely movies just to make money. Not sure whether Raul Julia or Jeremy "i just bought a castle" Irons is my favorite example. I have a lot of respect for Raul Julia’s reasons for doing street fighter. He knew he was dying so he did a movie based on some games he knew his kids liked that would leave them a shitload of money when he was gone. And he did not half-rear end it at ALL. He’s a delight in that.
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CaptainCrunch posted:My personal favorite fake name is from the “Prey” novels. In "This Book is Full of Spiders" one of the characters is named Detective Lance Falconer. Which at the end is revealed to be a fake name after the narrator promises him to completely embellish his part of the story after Falconer was annoyed that he was unable to get a book deal about the events of the story.
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mojo1701a posted:Absolutely. Not just that scene, but Toast of London has a lot of great moments in it, and the names are just one. The purchase Brothers winking at each other and the one where toast has a meltdown because of clem fandango can still reduce me to tears when i rewatch the show "You bloody fool! Why did you bring Jon Hamm in here?! Everyone knows about his chaaarm and charismaa!" datajugend has a new favorite as of 03:48 on Nov 17, 2019 |
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