Take these chestnuts for example, all written within the last 48 hours:. If your screen name has emoticons in it, there's a percent chance you have Mardi Gras beads hanging from your rear view mirror. If you have a weird, obscure name, don't arrogantly correct people when they pronounce it wrong.
Many of her best tweets are patterned in this way: find an annoying tendency, then associate a larger and off-kilter and somewhat dubious significance to it. It's not new or different, especially on Twitter. She just happens to be better at it; her view of it slightly more askew and her criticisms more pointed:. If your key ring is full of keychains with clever sayings, plus a stick filled with glittery water, I know you had a baby in high school. She's a voice of our petulance, a symptom of growing up with food on the table and low-interest college loans snark is, after all, a luxury of the upper classes.
I pick on Jenny Johnson, but this is truth across most comedy writing I'm guilty of it as well, and I can't even do it as well as she can.
Our blessed generation can publish or read something in an instant, and so our need has grown with that. There's more available, so we consume more -- we consume more and so there's more made available. And nothing epitomizes that more than Twitter. Comedy becomes diluted as a tsunami of jokes -- characters a piece -- surge into our eyes and brains and we trade meaning or relevance for wit, because the bottom line is: can you make 'em laugh and can you do it fast?
The easiest path is through snark, but aren't we all kind of dicks now? And so, over time, it stops being as funny and starts being a little cheap.
Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? How much of Jenny Johnson's work have you seen? Known For. The Mick Prostitute. Baby Talk Self. Un-Flappable Self. Show all Hide all Show by Jump to: Actress Self Archive footage. Hide Show Actress 1 credit. Hide Show Self 7 credits. Un-Flappable Documentary filming Self. All I got from that exchange with Chris Brown is that he wants to s and fart on me I have zero respect for a person who seems unapologetic for the terrible crime he committed and shows no signs of changing.
Nobody's Business? Chris and RiRi unwind after her Tour. Though Brown's Twitter account has since been wiped out, the singer did post a few more comments before signing off. Ur a comedic writer!!! If u can take a dick, u can take a joke," then adding the cryptic comment, "Just ask Rihanna if she mad??????
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