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Watching Comedy Central recently I've noticed that every show in their arsenal is currently embracing the word really, as in:
"Really, Jade? That's what you wanted to post about? Really?"
They use it sometimes thrice per episode. It's the new it word, like "not" and "shizzle" only it's risen to prominence so quickly and seen so much usage that it's already hackneyed and painful for me to hear. I'm all for new language but it's like these writers all got the same memo about the hot new sarcasm and have milked it until the teat went pale and dry.
I've always used the word 'really' loads! Argh... *self conscious shuffling* :(As in, "Really, R-type? That's your word?"
Do you use it in that sarcastic context? It seems to be the hot new thing.
:) No not like that -just to express how REALLY great things are and how much they're really, really cool. usually. ;)
"Really" in my community (nowheresville NY) is overused in the same way "like" was a punctuation (er, still is here for some). As in "Really? Really? OMG! (yes, people here pronounce chat acronyms, like those commercials) Really?" It's like a mental crutch or something here. (No offense to R-Type, it is not a crutch when used as an adjective no matter what high school english teachers say.)
Since I posted this, I've seen "really?" spread exponentially throughout every "hip" show's script. Multiple uses per episode are also the rage. I hate to be the crazy man wearing the doomsday sandwich sign here folks, but stop this expression before it's too late!
::All of a sudden The Jade is "fatally censored" by an electric dart to the back of the head. His attackers, clay-faced automatons from the future who communicate only through use of the word "really?" in mumbled monotone, step back through their momentaroily stabalized rip in the space time continuum and are gone in an instant--the only evidence of their stay being one face down herald of the neodark age to come.::
Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.
Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava
Fizz
Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.
Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava
Fizz
Comedy Central played four hour-long comedy specials for each of the blue collar comedy guys today. I was writing and reading and had it on in the background. Larry the Cable Guy was by far the worst. And falling back on get 'er done is so sad because it actually works. A lot of people don't know funny until it's been around a while, they're told it's funny, and then they're given catch phrases so they'll know when it's appropriate to laugh.
If you took the next great undiscovered comedian into an office he'd likely lose an applause volume contest when pitted against the office watercooler funnyman who does cheesy Ahnold/Brokaw/Cosby/Nicholson impressions.
Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.
Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava
Fizz
Comedy Central played four hour-long comedy specials for each of the blue collar comedy guys today. I was writing and reading and had it on in the background. Larry the Cable Guy was by far the worst. And falling back on get 'er done is so sad because it actually works. A lot of people don't know funny until it's been around a while, they're told it's funny, and then they're given catch phrases so they'll know when it's appropriate to laugh.
If you took the next great undiscovered comedian into an office he'd likely lose an applause volume contest when pitted against the office watercooler funnyman who does cheesy Ahnold/Brokaw/Cosby/Nicholson impressions.
The sad part is that Larry the Cable Guy is so friggin' over-the-top rich from the Blue Collar Comedy stuff. I saw a show (fabulous life of, I think) and he is stinking, awful, horribly rich. Like Pop-star rich. Not a few million, more like hundred million area.
Getter done, indeed!Really.
Rant: I hate Larry the Fu-ckin Cable Guy!!! He's not funny, never has been, never will be. He makes stupidity fun, and I swear to God created the most soul wrenching phrase in life, Getter Done??? Really (sorry) how about you stop promoting the stereotype of the uneducated southerner you idiotic despot. It's almost as bad as promoting racial stereotypes. He doesn't even use jokes or life experiences just damn one line phrases that for some reason some people think are funny.
Sorry rant over. I hate catch phrases too. That's Hot...Getter Done...You're Fired... Flavor-Flava
Fizz
Comedy Central played four hour-long comedy specials for each of the blue collar comedy guys today. I was writing and reading and had it on in the background. Larry the Cable Guy was by far the worst. And falling back on get 'er done is so sad because it actually works. A lot of people don't know funny until it's been around a while, they're told it's funny, and then they're given catch phrases so they'll know when it's appropriate to laugh.
If you took the next great undiscovered comedian into an office he'd likely lose an applause volume contest when pitted against the office watercooler funnyman who does cheesy Ahnold/Brokaw/Cosby/Nicholson impressions.
I'm a fan of those intellectual stand-up guys (Lewis Black, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Bill Strauss, Henry Rollins, etc...). Every time I hear "GIT 'ER DUUUUNN", my IQ drops by about three points. What is the world of comedy coming to?
Comedy is getting away from the intelligent/smart style that used to be popular and becoming more slapstick/simplistic in style. This really comes through when you compare the comedy movies from the 60s/70s/80s (Animal House, Weird Science, anything by Ivan Reitman or Rob Reiner, etc.) to the movies produced in the 90s/00s (Dumb and Dumber, Next Friday, anything with Martin Lawrence, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, etc.). There are no set up lines anymore. No build up to a punch line. It's all done for shock value.
I don't even bother seeing comedies anymore.
