Too Fat To Rock 'n' Roll

[White of High]

It's ironic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqGEVLKaUCk

:D

[Lord Kagan]

:lmao: very funny

[Monstro]

Been posted before, still don't think it's funny second time around

[Kev]

I posted it first time!!!

[djfierce]

Ironic? how? no offence but do you have the right word?

wtf?
i have a healthy sense of humour but it didnt hit with me, i've seen many things making fun of meat that are funny but i just didnt appreciate this one

[MeatGrl1]

Been posted before, still don't think it's funny second time around

I agree Michael!

:angry: :angry: :angry:

[geordieloaf]

now that was crap. if you want singing comedy go to youtube and watch Stephen Lynch he is really funny.

[RadioMaster]

What do you want? That´s the typical MAD and MAD TV style of homour. It´s not everybody´s taste, but some like it.

[djfierce]

i've seen lots of madtv stuff that is funny, no it's not everyone's taste, but they are allowed to say if they like it or not ;)

I still dont get the 'ironic' statment,i'm not being rude just thick at best but i dont understand how it is ironic?

[LostSoul]

"Ironic" ain't the right word but it might be fun if Meat practices self-mockery...


Patricia

[mszee]

For as much as I am not a crazed fan...and actually am a fan of MadTV...I found this sketch dumb and offensive...

[RadioMaster]

I dont really like the MAD humor....

[Sapphire Lady]

Ironic? how? no offence but do you have the right word?

I think the word to describe it is a parody, ie a musical or literary composition that mimics the style of another in a humorous way. I don't think any offence is intended to Meat or his fans.

[djfierce]

I think the word to describe it is a parody, ie a musical or literary composition that mimics the style of another in a humorous way. I don't think any offence is intended to Meat or his fans.


Parody is what it is but ironic is a comment so i'm still confused but anyway it's not that important.
I'm sure they didnt mean any offence at all but i just feltthe one subject went on too much, there are many ways to poke fun at Meat, it just seemed to me that they picked the most obvious one and stuck with it all the way thru making it a little boring and inane in my opinion ;)

[RadioMaster]

Parody is what it is but ironic is a comment so i'm still confused but anyway it's not that important.
I'm sure they didnt mean any offence at all but i just feltthe one subject went on too much, there are many ways to poke fun at Meat, it just seemed to me that they picked the most obvious one and stuck with it all the way thru making it a little boring and inane in my opinion ;)

Actually they made fun at various aspects of Meat Loaf. We´ve got the being-fat, always eating, the outfit, the long hair, the over the top singing and the brandishing arms, the whole acting thing.

I think it is clearly meant offensive, but every modern comedy is, especially if it´s about one person.
Modern comedy is always offensive, but people got a so called "sense of humour" that lets them take not everything too serious.

[mszee]

You know...I have sense of humor...and I do understand parodies...and I am not a crazed fan...and still this one...somehow is distatestul...

[RadioMaster]

that was absolutely meant not offensive at you, Zina. Sorry if you got it wrong. :oops:

[geordieloaf]

People find different things funny. Don't suppose there is anything wrong with that.
Some people can't stand Chubby Brown were as i finding him very funny. World would be pretty boring if everyone found the same things funny.
I didn't find offensive just not very original.

[mszee]

that was absolutely meant not offensive at you, Zina. Sorry if you got it wrong. :oops:

No, I didn't take personal offence whatsoever...I am still talking about that video...there is something way too much and too wrong about it for me to be just an innocent parody...

[djfierce]

RJ, a sense of humour is matter of opinion and personal taste, hence some finding it funny and others not. I dont understand why you seem to be getting quite vexed about this :? They may have mentioned other things but thy harped on about the size more than anything, keeping on going back to it over and over.
I dont think anyone is taking it too seriously, merely commenting on whether and why they like it or not is not taking it too seriously.
Geordieloaf is absolutely right, I hate 'ole Chubby' but loved Bill Hicks who was considered way more controversial.I also love MadTV, most of their stuff has me in stitches but occasionally they do overdo it a bit, not just with Meat but with other artists and celebrity's i wouldnt spit on.
It's not fair to say people have no sense of humour just cos they say they dont like it :?

[RadioMaster]

am I?

sorry, I was quite busy with other things when I wrote that, let me try to explain, what I meant.

Sense of humour might be the wrong expression...

A sense of humour is the personal taste in humour, but I was talking about tolerate things even if you dont think it´s funny, cause other people might find it funny.

Not sure if this makes sense...

[djfierce]

no worries ;) i was typing in a hurry too :oops:

i understand what you're getting at, i just didnt see any people not tolerating it, just stating that they didnt like it and why, we do it with Meat's songs so why not about parady's of him :?
Anyway *extends hand to RJ in a gesture to shake on it and make up* :))

[Pudding]

I prefer the song without the video, but still very funny. The bloke kinda reminds me of ~~~~~~~~~~ :shock:

Pud :twisted:

[Skeleton]

The video was interesting because it has subtitles in Finnish.. :shock:

But othervise it was pretty stupid, ironic yes. Some of the people likes that kind of humor..

[Chris]

I fear I may be in the minority but i found it fairly amusing.
I must admit that like pudding, i fidn the song better without the video but hey ho.
Now if omeone culd just find the video to Pull My Finger....

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: Got to say, I quite like this too :shock:

Thing is, with parody, to take ANY recognisable feature, and exagerate it beyond all preportion.


Put it this way.

It's the mid 80's.

Picture..............













A Meat Loaf SPITTING IMAGE DUMMY.


Same thing.

The number one characteristic is that it would be FAT.

It would probablly eat a lot because.............

A. it's how people put on weight.

B. He has a name which is also the name of a type of food.

C. It's a running gag, and shows like that THRIVED on running gags.



Yeah, so a parody isn't always the most respectful thing to do in the world, but anyone well known in the world has got to accept the possibility of immitation and parody.

No matter what you are well known for.



The thing that these kind of things reveal the most is about the artist themselves.

Most artists just do not acknowledge parodies.
Either pretend they ain't seen them, or they guenuinly HAVEN'T seen them.


Some artists applaude, and sometimes even help out with parodies of themselves.

John Belushi did a LEATHAL parody of Joe Cocker on Saturday Night Live, yet Joe went on the show with John and did a sketch with him where they were dressed in matching outfits and John was mimicking Cocker's movements as he sang.

I think that show gave people the impression that Joe Cocker is a pretty good egg 8)

Worst thing to do is to jump up and down about it as it shows the artist has "no sence of humour".



Agree with Chris aswell, Pull My Finger is pretty damn funny :lmao:

[Monstro]

I really do like my parody humour to be just a bit more than just taking the mick out of one aspect though, there wasn't really a lot of thought put into this was there?

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: Well on the Joe Cocker parody, all John really did was do the "spastic" convultions that Joe is well known for, but, again, taken to very extream lengths.

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: Case in point :wink:

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As you can see, John was not doing anything greatly original.

He was singing a Joe Cocker song, in the style of Joe Cocker, dressed as Joe Cocker, immitating Joe Cocker, WITH Joe Cocker :wtf:

Least inthe TFTRAR parody they made an effort to write a newsong :wink:

[mszee]

The best parody I've EVER seen was Mike Myers doing Mick Jagger...and Mick Jagger doing Keith Richards...

THAT was something ABSOLUTELY out of this world...

[Monstro]

Jeez, someone close this thread lol

[Jaymze]

I found it hilarious