Where the Glass is half full of Shit

Monday, May 10, 2010

Nick Madson mistakenly thinks he's Patton Oswalt

In a digital age where Grandma uses Firefox to navigate her way onto You Tube, whereupon she uploads a compressed avi formatted snippet of her plethora of cats bouncing yarn that she shot using her Flipvideo, one would naturally think a thirty year old would understand that anything he says in public forum can and will be used against him in a court of Internet. The seemingly unstoppable and immeasurable Juggernaut of the Internet's reach most recently took a relatively washed-up (literally and figuratively) octogenarian actress in Betty White and launched an online campaign lobbying for Mrs. White to host an episode of SNL, which she ultimately did.

So what on BP's oil tainted earth did wannabe comedian Nick Madson think was going to come of his Hilton Hilltop Hackery when he flagrantly plagiarized a well-known routine from established funnyman Patton Oswald?

As a stand-up comedian it's a cardinal rule to not steal any comedian's jokes, just as it's equally inappropriate to be Ashley Simpson and think your a singer when in fact you are just a scantily cladded, meretricious trollop in front of a piece of equipment typically used for actual singing. While it is acceptable to borrow from the greats and reach some of the same conclusions , especially when it comes to topical matter; however, taking it upon yourself to so audaciously pilfer the blood and sweat that goes into the sheer agony of ones unfaltering efforts in turning something out of thin air into a masterpiece deeply embedded in the annuls of comedy.

Does anyone really want to watch Carrot Top perform George Carlin's pristine "Seven Dirty Words" routine?

As if stealing the bit outright wasn't execrable enough, Nick Madson performed Patton Oswalt's amazing routine with such torpor and sheer amateurishness that it sounded like a 6th grader poorly reading the works of Twain, Wilde, and Swift all in one.

We live in a "now" lottery winning reality TV star society that demands instant gratification and immediate results, whilst overlooking the time-tested skills and proven talents that were once a necessary requirement for fame and fortune. Much to the chagrin of totally unfunny and unoriginal Nick Madson,  we also live in a voyeuristic world where the camera is always running and the Internet never goes to sleep.

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