Chip Bok | July 31, 2009

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I guess this thing isn't over until Friday "funnies" takes a stab at it too. Can we drop it now?
Don't kid yourself JLM. This thing is going to be around for quite a while longer. Any time El Presidente Barry gets his hands on something, the media follows along like a puppy.
I saw this bok cartoon earlier this week and knew it was going to be on Friday Funnies. He actually made a really good one.
Yeah, I guess for all the subpar FFs, a gem was bound to pop out sooner or later.
...a poised and smooth Sergeant Crowley Hit
and Run reader said in a 15-minute news conference after
the session. "We didn't spend too much time dwelling on the past,
and we decided to look forward."
"THe only thing wrong with it is the car isn't a
Prius......."
When you see Prius owners scratching off their Obama stickers, the
revolution will truly have arrived. I don't think we're there quite
yet...
The whole premise hinges on their actually being cops who voted Democratic. Unlikely.
I swear to god, if Hollywood makes a buddy picture about a
harvard professor and a cop who arrests him and then they end up as
best buddies, I'm going to hurl.
-jcr
if Hollywood makes a buddy picture about a harvard professor and a cop who arrests him and then they end up as best buddies, I'm going to hurl.
Um, that actually sounds like it could be good, if directed by David Lynch. I don't think Lynch has done a buddy cop movie yet.
And if you want a less surreal and disjointed version, you can go with Michael Mann or John Singleton.
And if you want a less surreal and disjointed version, you
can go with Michael Mann or John Singleton.
How about they go undercover in pursuit of a mysterious new
designer drug, and Bill Duke directs.
that actually sounds like it could be good
I hope you're kidding. If not, consult a good shrink for some
remedial action to improve your taste in films.
-jcr
If not, consult a good shrink for some remedial action to improve your taste in films.
Whoa, my taste in films couldn't be better. I just know that while most executions of this premise would be poor indeed, in the right hands...GOLD.
a buddy picture about a harvard professor and a cop who
arrests him and then they end up as best buddies,
Do it as a satire of politics and buddy movies, and I think you may
have something. Now, to cast it . . . .
May I suggest Robert Downey Jr. in blackface as the professor?
I don't know who should play the Professor, but Nicholas Cage* should play the cop. Think really twitchy and over-the-top, but with the Nic Cage hangdog expression™
Did you see the beer choices? Obama ordered a Bud Light. Impeach the motherfucker already.
I was thinkin Al Sharpton as Gates with Mark Fuhrman as Crowley. Maybe a Spike Lee project. Bill Cosby as Obama.
Well, if Spike Lee's doing it, Giancarlo Esposito has to play
Gates.
And Cee-Lo Green can reprise his role as "Rollo Goodlove"
(channeling Al Sharpton).
"44 Seconds in Cambridge" is the title I'm going with.
Obama ordered a Bud Light.
I know! Hasn't he heard of Nati Ice? PBR? ;)
Don't know why but I'm surprised people are putting this one in the plus column. I didn't think it was all that funny.
I think we should break out the Eddie Murphy kids-movie magic and Will Smith can play all three roles. And Zach Snyder green-screen the whole thing and digitally insert; the backgrounds and all the fight scene can be in fast-forward, slow-motion seizures. For good measure, add a few Bay-bla-splosions! and Zoe Salada to teach Smith-Crowley that the blacker the fruit, the sweeter the juice.
Here's my idea for saving the newspaper industry: dirty
political cartoons. Like, say, Mr. Globe Head is having sex with
the Statue of Liberty, and then Uncle Sam walks in and says, "my
precious Liberty! And my best friend!" Or maybe if John Q. Public
is getting head from Little Annie Fannie Blind Justice, and then he
goes, "suck, Justice, suck! 'Blow' is just a figure of free
speech!" Also, more coupons.
Note to Pulitzer Committee: please send my award to
Iowahawk
Lot 7D, Lakewood Mobile Home Court
5205 Highway 6 West
Coralville, IA 52241
Damn, SugarFree, so you're the guy that Executive Produced Dragonball: Evolution and most of Michael Bay's movies.
I hate it when politicians order cheap pissbeer. It's either a cynical attempt to look like "joe sixpack" or it displays a serious lack of knowledge about decent beverages. Either way, I don't trust 'em. I bet Obama doesn't serve two-buck Chuck at White House dinners--why break out the Bud for the plebes?
I'm hoping it wasn't Bud Light and he was just say that for the common man touch. Maybe Ommegang Witte or a Schneider Weisse.
db,
Only Obama drank Bud Light. Crowley had a Blue Moon, Gates a Sam
Adams Light, and Biden had a Bucker (non-alcoholic.)
The realization that Biden doesn't drink makes all the daffy things
he says just plain chilling.
Gates had a red stripe and Crowley had something with the word moon in the name. I'll look.
All I saw were pictures with the beer poured into mugs--no bottles. But I haven't been paying much attention, either.
I can't believe you libertarians hate on good old American
piss-beer. It makes us seem like elitists and probably explains why
Libertarians can't get elected to high office.
Here, get back in touch with
"the people".
Crowley had a Blue Moon, which is made by Molsen-Coors.
I suppose Obama's Bud Light was contrived everyman stagecraft for
lunchbox proletarian voters, but intense beer snobbery creeps me
out. I've tried all those $12/bottle suds made by eunuch monks in
Luxembourg using yeast found only on the inner folds of 3000 year
old truffles. Pheh. I'm happy enough with a Shiner Bock or 1960
Formula Schlitz.
I'm hardly surprised that Obama chose bud light. He's a
politician. I expect politicians to choose bland and
uninteresting.
I wonder if the white-supremacist and racist conspiracy guys are
going to read anything into Crowley choosing a beer in the witbier
style (translation 'white beer').
The realization that Biden doesn't drink makes all the daffy
things he says just plain chilling.
Threadwinner - because it's true.
I don't know who should play the Professor, but Nicholas
Cage* should play the cop. Think really twitchy and over-the-top,
but with the Nic Cage hangdog expression™
Well Cage does have the soon-to-be-released form:
Herzog-Cage Bad Lieutenant remake/reboot
The realization that Biden doesn't drink makes all the daffy
things he says just plain chilling.
SugarFree wins the thread. But Art-POG wins the Oscar.
I suppose Obama's Bud Light was contrived everyman stagecraft for lunchbox proletarian voters, but intense beer snobbery creeps me out.
If being everyman was his goal, he should have ordered a Natty
Boh.
http://www.nationalbohemian.com/
Bud-light is extremely popular down here with blacks. Miller
high life being a distant second, with the retired aged
folks.
(apologies if my use of the term "blacks" is offensive)
> The realization that Biden doesn't drink makes all the
daffy things he says just plain chilling.
Iirc, Buckler's slogan is "He conquers, who conquers himself".
Ha!
"THe only thing wrong with it is the car isn't a
Prius......."
Angry white men don't drive Priuses, even if they did vote for
Obama.
Work flitered, SugarFree. too bad. Now I'll have to wait til Tuesday, as I'm going out of town direct from work.
Angry white men don't drive Priuses
Oh, you'd be surprised. Here in California, you can see some white
guys in electric pussy cars cursing a blue streak if they get cut
off in traffic.
I thought the anonymity bot was the thread winner. It was the funniest comment all day.
Some steps in the wind...
I hear, in
the strength
that always
remains, the
delicate rhymes
of a deep
sensibility, and
even a pleasure
where the
sun-rise appears...
Francesco Sinibaldi
How about this one next time, Bok:
Show a cop with a Taser wire connected to a fried-looking old lady
on the ground (next to her, a still-smoking walker). The smug-faced
cop is thinking to himself, "Now THAT'S acting stupidly!"
And maybe the old lady's car has an Obama bumper sticker.
"contrived everyman stagecraft for lunchbox
proletarian..."
obama - when statecraft isn't an option...
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