If I had hypothetically conjured up interest from a late night show for a writing gig, and they had hypothetically asked me to provide writing samples for the host's opening monologues this week. Do you think any of these would work? Think kinda-corny late night humor. -Shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi made big news this week when he threw what appeared to be two strikes at the President’s head during a press conference. Two strikes! This was so impressive to the New York Yankee’s that free agent pitcher C.C. Sabathia’s deal is now on hold, pending the reporter’s physical. -In other sports news, President George Bush has reportedly been contacted by the Baghdad Bobcat’s, a semi-pro dodge ball team who would (quote) love to have his cat-like quickness take the field with them next season (insert video of President dodging shoes). -Illinois lawmakers have taken the first step towards impeaching state governor Rod Blagojevich for trying the sell the Senate seat vacated by President elect Barack Obama. In anticipation of the ousting of the Governor, it seems that the bidding on his vacated seat is up to 2500 dollars on E-bay. -With all things considered Democrats and Republicans have had a pretty good year. For Democrats, Senator Barack Obama is going to the White House and for Republicans O.J. Simpson is going to jai! I think President Bush should think about pardoning O.J.! Who better to seek out, retrieve and protect Presidential memorabilia…surfacing in Vegas… -The animated film “Delgo” has the worst wide release opening ever. It earned a measly $512,000 this weekend on 2,160 screens. That's an average of $237 per screen for the three days. Hollywood hasn’t seen an animated flop like that since Dane Cook.
OooOOoooooo...! (the last one was great, sir... and you can say Craig Kilborne, or the entire WB network instead of Cook) Sold!
I really liked 3 and 5. The others could be rescued with laff-tracks. good stuff AB...all acceptable.
I thought 1, 2, and 3 were pretty lame to be honest. Too predictable. 4 and 5 were quite good. Especially the part about Bush hiring O.J. to protect presidential memorabilia. That's good stuff.
The bad news: I didn't find any of them amusing. The good news: I don't usually find monologues amusing, and writing good jokes for a late-night monologue is certainly more difficult than one might think.
All of them sound like typical Leno monologue jokes, I think you're spot on. I liked 5 the best. I've got another one: due to the success of the democrats winning the election, they've renamed white elephant parties to white donkey parties! HAR HAR HAR.
I like the idea of #1, but it just isn't very sharp. #2 would be good if do physical humor. #3 is decent Sorry... didn't really like 4 and 5.
Speaking of news and jokes, anyone seen Chocolate News? I find it hilarious. David Allen Grier is the man.
Thanks for your comments. All of them! Keep in mind that the late night demographic is different from the Comedy Central demo. Where CC monologues would be hip and snarky, the late night viewers tend to be a little older. If I knew you guy's ages I think it would be more helpful, but I appreciate you taking time to read and respond nevertheless. One more... I think I have a solution for this little “bail out” problem that we seem to be having…A SOULTION! For every industry that we taxpayers seem to be bailing out, that industry should give us something in return! For example, if we bail out the auto industry, they should give away a few thousand cars. If we bail out the mortgage industry they should give away a few thousand homes, and just in case the beer industry goes belly up…it’s happy hour for America! I know it's corny but I'm trying to apply different, simple perspective to the same old headlines. OMB- You're right about #1, trying to work it out. ProfJ- Your recognition of the tone was very helpful. bobrek- I doubt it, but I may eliminate the bit because of that. drox- You could not imagine how many constraints there are. Swoly- I may keep #5 and do it myself! ...hypothetically Everyone else, thanks again
#5 should probably be higher up in the list, like 2. It's easily the funniest and most original of them all.
I liked #5 and the bailout joke. Didn't really care for the others. But then again, I'm a tough crowd.
