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…and now, MAD TV is going mad

February 6th, 2010
Funny Bone, Mad Ads, Surreyal, Vidddeos

Excited about MAD TV Madness Week, which happening next week from 8-14th February. It’ll be a lot of work, but it sure as hell will be a lot of fun putting it all together too.

I came up with two different print ads for the event. This first one has been published in the latest edition of The Stag too.

It features guinea pirates. Basically, they’re pirates but at the same time they’re also guinea pigs.

I also made a second ad, which didn’t get approved/published. This one features eyes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and critical praise from The Washington Toast.

Apparently, this second ad was judged to be too scary for release because of the disembodied eyes.

And yet, after doing all this, I still didn’t truly feel that I was part of the Internets generation. This feeling has been gnawing away at me for quite some time. I had epiphany recently. No, it wasn’t “Bananas are an excellent source of potassium. [slap]“, nor did it have anything to do with the Boob Lady.

The epiphany was that to be truly a part of the interwebz, I needed to make a Hitler parody video. Featuring: one mass-murdering tyrant, guinea pirates, fart jokes, unneccessary subtitles, Wolfenstein 3D, and (of course), Forty Two.

Watch Hitler reacts to rumours of MAD TV Madness Week

I plan to firm up my newly strengthened citizenship of the Internuts by jumping on to more pointless parody bandwagons in the near future. For now though, I must leave to has cheezburger.

Oh, did I hear you say “What is MAD TV Madness Week?!”. I guess you’ll just have to tune in to www.madtvsurrey.co.uk to find out.

In case you haven’t read it already, you might also be interested in my previous blog post Has MAD TV Gone Insane?

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Has MAD TV Gone Insane?

January 29th, 2010
Funny Bone, Surreyal

This is a spoof news story which I wrote as something which could’ve gone in the next issue of The Stag, but it wasn’t approved by the MAD TV executive committee because it was irreverent to MAD TV. Publishing it here anyway!

The continued absence of MAD TV on the airwaves has been raising some eyebrows on campus, apparently. This itself appears to be a startling fact, since MAD TV broadcasts on YouTube, and not actually via airwaves. A boffin claiming to be David Pugh (science editor of The Stag), although suspiciously not like the real David Pugh in appearance at all, said “We have got top-of-the-line Ghostbusters equipment scanning the airwaves for forced jokes made in a studio, but have been unsuccessful so far”.

Students are questioning why hardly any new episodes have been released over the past few weeks. A source reports to us that just this other day an angry mob congregated outside Rubix wielding pitchforks, demanding real-time Twitter updates on when University of Surrey Student News will be back. Angry Mob Protestor #26 said, “I feel listless these days without any new MAD TV episodes. I might just have to go back to…stalking people on Facebook to bide time”. The mob dispersed when they were given £5 vouchers for Young’s Kitchen (valid on any purchase above £300).

Efforts to reach MAD TV executive producer Mike Frazer for a response were mostly futile, except that one time when we had a brief chat to discuss what MAD TV plans to do with all with funds it has got, now that it is an official society. Mr Frazer mumbled something about a new website being developed, before sauntering off hollering “Assemble…”

In other news, a protester who broke into a Stag committee meeting demanding to know who these ’sources’ tipping us off on what he called ‘completely cooked up news stories’ were. He was kindly escorted out of the room and given a free issue of The Stag to appreciate his feedback to this newspaper.

- by Mykfrey Zur

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Boost Mobile with unlimited plan

January 28th, 2010
Needlessly Messianic

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

Today’s announcement of the Apple iPad was real dampener, wasn’t it? Honestly, I don’t mind though; rather I’m glad people at last saw through Steve Jobs’s bullshit on a new product launch.

Speaking of good mobile browsing devices, Boost Mobile will be soon launching the gorgeous-looking QWERTY flip Incognito phone, which you can see above. (If you want to know the exact model being launched, it’s the Sanyo Incognito™ SCP6760.) The phone will retail for $129.99 (excluding taxes), and if you buy the phone using this SANYO Incognito link then you also get free shipping! (This has nothing to do with me getting any commission if you click that link; it’s just the way you avail free shipping.)

SANYO Incognito has been praised by external reviewers such as CNET to be quite a capable phone, especially for messaging/browsing – given the full QWERTY keyboard. The external surface of the phone has a touch-sensitive ‘glow-through’ keypad which allows you to dial numbers quickly in case you need to. (It does have a swipe lock so that numbers aren’t dialled randomly.) Once open you have a 2.6″ display that will give you a large viewing area. The phone does have GPS functionality with support for mapping services. The only niggling thing seems to be the 2 megapixel camera – but then a higher resolution doesn’t necessarily mean some other phone will have a ‘better’ camera. In fact, reviews say that the SANYO Incognito’s camera is actually quite good as far as colour reproduction / managing noise goes. It also has support for EVDO, so data transfers can be reasonably fast on the device.

Boost Mobile is offering the device on a no-contract basis, with a $50 monthly fee. On the look of it might sound steep, but for that price they are giving unlimited calls, text messages, AND web browsing! The only thing I didn’t like about how the device is being marketed is that the official Sanyo Incognito page for Boost Mobile doesn’t offer the technical specifications to the cellphone at all; a PDF download of tech specs is offered, but it turns out to be a single-page file telling you to just go Sanyo’s site instead. I get that most people might not be interested in tech specs, but for those who are it makes no sense essentially giving a blank file.

Coupled with the unlimited usage monthly plan and no contracts, SANYO Incognito from Boost Mobile is win-win choice for fashion conscious users who text a lot.

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Up In The Air

January 27th, 2010
Motion Pictures, Reviews, Vidddeos

My rating of Up In The Air: 5 / 10
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Up In The Air is the darling of film critics these days in the run up to the Academy Awards, with many of them calling it variations of “a funny, witty comedy”. A film that’s “right on time, as the recession is on”. I honestly do not understand how a film about a guy who fires people for a living called be ‘comedy’ by any yardstick.

The problem with Up In The Air is that it simply doesn’t bring up anything new at all, nor does it bring up anything we know of in an interesting way. It doesn’t particularly surprise you or move you in any way whatsoever. The plot is extremely predictable and not once does it ever spring a surprise upon you.

Anna Kendrick’s fake acting is terrible enough to earn her a position on the list of ‘Closest Thing Humanity Has To Android Actors’, right up there with Hayden Christensen and Daniel Radcliffe. The only saving grace is George Clooney, who tries his best to save this film from crash-landing. It’s only in the last fifteen minutes or so of the movie that it has some substance in it; when Clooney’s character is coming to terms with the fact that rethinking his way of living doesn’t work out for him.

Up In The Air is nothing more than a chick flick masquerading as a highbrow “witty commentary of the times we live in”. Awkward interactions between humans does not necessarily equate to a good film.

Watch the Up In The Air theatrical trailer