This Blog is back...to the future.

After about a year and a half of absence, I finally came up with the ideal title to announce my return. This was also the perfect segue to discuss an issue more important than global warning, more relevant than the economy, and more dire than Swine Flu...bad comedy. I was perfectly content to stay away from the pressure of providing constant ramblings to a crowd of zero, but then I saw something that I felt needed to be addressed. Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail" made more money in the theaters than all of these movies:

The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Tommy Boy, Army of Darkness, Swingers, Rushmore, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang...COMBINED.

Here's the trailer in case you've already repressed the memory of it's existence.


Tyler Perry is to funny what Hitler was to the Jews. Even more frightening is that "Meet the Browns" is thriving and "House of Payne" is one of the most watched shows on cable. This isn't just against Tyler Perry and his personal challenge to turn the funny bone into another appendix, but something even bigger than Dane Cook's unsubstantiated ego. Now, I hear you in the back of the bus claiming these are all culturally ignorant pleas designed to keep the black man down. I wish I could say this was true, but this just happens to be the lowest common denominator of our generation. We survived a similar outbreak in the late 80's from the one man comedy machine named "Ernest." I'm not going to get into the similarities, but let's just say they both go to jail. Here is the real problem: Hollywood conducts business the same way I eat. They find one thing that works and sticks with it. This of course means that we get loads of crap until the shear thought of it makes us sick. All the while this has happened, we've neglected giving actual funny and talented people money. This creates a Domino Effect or as we like to call it "Frieberg/Selter Syndrome" and we end up with this:



I could go into the exact science of how Tyler Perry will lead to end of life in our solar system, but if you like Tyler Perry, you stopped reading after you realized the rest of the article wouldn't have gems such as in the title. It's time to take our comedy serious. I'm upping the threat level to Terminator. It's not the end of the world yet, but we're close. I've been working on a ratings system that will assist you in your TV/Movie viewing. Until then, for the sake of all human existence, please proceed with caution and good luck...