Jim Meskimen continues to supply new and unusual impressions for film and television, including George Clooney’s Monuments Men, where he provided the voice of President Harry Truman. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. I felt like I was being forced to act scandalized by something totally de rigueur; like it must feel to open the door to a surprise party that you already knew all about, over and over again all evening long.When one uses the specific rhythms of one’s time and society, it can cut both ways, just as Bob Hope’s hoary pattern was both a source of satisfaction to older viewers and the object of complete rejection by a kid like me.If one composes humorous offerings for others and establishes a pattern that is satisfying, once the pattern is set, it becomes easier and easier for the “Transaction” of comedy to take place. Respect to you from this curious non-Scientologist. And indeed, it is part of the duty of the next generation to point at the foibles and rotten spots in the stone idols of their forefathers, so as to clear away the less worthy for the good of all. (I don’t know if a stone idol can be said to have a foible, but you follow. The robotic part was not the flaw; see the career of the very funny Steven Wright. In 1987, Meskimen married Tamra Shockley. Up next Starring Max Weisz aka MaxNoSleeves (https://YouTube.com/MaxNoSleeves). Watch Queue Queue. And just as old music styles no longer excite the imagination but become iconic or static styles, so do the methods of communicating humor, irony, and other comedic forms.To me, the “contemporary”  YouTube/FunnyOrDie comedic style has a sort of “Random” quality. The old Bob Hope, set-up/gag/deadpan form is completely absent, and in its place is something that looks like an artistic free-for-all, a pastiche of very random viewpoints and delivery styles, mirroring in some way the disorderly nature of our whole society.It’s as if the thing we latch onto as a common element to which everyone can relate is CHAOS.Chaos and randomness has become the style most in tune with the zeitgeist, (which is a German word meaning “spirit of the times” that is still cool, for some reason. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Watch Queue Queue That’s a pretty long shelf life; almost as long as a Twinkie. It becomes more easy for an audience to accept and digest even less than brilliant jokes if there has been a solid establishment of the rate, the quality, and the predictability of the sequence itself, regardless of specific content.Conversely, if you mess about and fail to deliver, and struggle to establish a pattern when no actual benefit is being delivered to an audience, that failed pattern, repeated, will tend to brand one as “Unfunny” and soon afterward, ignored. Master Impressionist Jim Meskimen Digital Government Summit Keynote 2015 - Duration: 53:03. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Here are my favorite playlists.

“Misdirection” is another word of it that you hear a lot in professional circles.Laughter is the rejection of the unexpected thing that comes AFTER an initial acceptance, then a recognition that–Hey, wait a MINUTE… it doesn’t fit.I’m in the position of having dabbled in a lot of various forms of comedy, from live stand up, comedy movies, sitcom TV shows, funny Internet voiceovers, to improv and improvised commercials, so I am very sensitive to the way humor is used, and how long the shelf life is of certain types of comedy.We can all see how certain comedic styles are immortal; Chaplin is a classic example because we can actually decipher, with some help, the Roman numerals MCMXXIV on the credits and recognize that the humor made by Chaplin in 1924 is still quite hilarious in 2010. For your viewing enjoyment.

Wodehouse and Mark Twain and even Shakespeare (once you break out your Shakespeare So even guys like me can, still, on occasion, be very funny, even if we aren’t as random as some of our– WHOA! Well said. Witness any episode of “Friends”, where the laughs, so expertly crafted over seasons, roll with the regularity of the tides.


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