Signs of no God

Just saw an ad for another Air Buddies DVD. Who in God's name is buying these things?!? Why do they keep making them?!?

Updates?? We don't need no stink'n updates!!!

Here's the latest:
Holidays are long over, so you'd think Jay and I would be going full bore into The Great Comedy Playoffs reviews..... You know what else goes down this time of year? Basic health. Both Jay & I caught some wicked throat... thing, and not the same thing either. I had a cough, he got something that came on much faster. Basically, neither of us have a voice, so the folks over at Cretins Guild Studios had to make a "Ghost Episode" for the 2nd round recap.

 Or, what you could call a Host-less episode. But aside from that, the brackets are moving along nicely. We've had upsets, close calls, blow-outs, and worse of all, controversy.


The down side to all this is that I have not had the chance to do any DVD reviews, but I have been thinking about how to renew the reviews. I thought about grabbing one of my DVD's at random, but that might not work (I own a bunch of crappy, uninteresting-but-not-to-me movies). But I have a bit of time to figure out how, and when they start back up again.

One idea is to make it a monthly web series. Why monthly? Short answer: I have two kids under the age of 3. Long unselfish reason: I want to make them entertaining, and put some quality into the videos, and that takes a bit of time. Especially since I only put real man-hours into the editing on weekend morning before the boys wake up!


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Til next time my fellow Zoetropatics!

Wow, what a year!

Taking a bit during these holiday time frame to say thank you anyone who watched, and sent in a bracket for The Great Comedy Playoffs. I had no idea how many I would end up getting, but was happy with the result. What I didn't anticipate was how much time I would have to put forth into editing the episodes. But it's a labor of love. It feels like both Jay and I are getting better with every show we do.
At this point, we just began to look at the 2nd round, with a few left to go.
You can watch all the episodes here on this playlist.

More to come, just getting back into the grove after a nasty cold hit me hard on Christmas Day.

DVD Review: The Captains

This is one I've been looking forward to for a while.

As a Star Trek Fan, or Trekkie if you will, I grew up on Star Trek The Next Gen. My father watched the original series, we both enjoyed the movies..... as bad as some of them were..... but it was one of just a few topics he and I both REALLY got into.
Over the years, I enjoyed all the Star Trek shows. My personal fav was DS9 even though at first, I thought it was a terrible concept. A Trek show that doesn't go trekking.
So a few years now without any Trek, I have been watching the shows on Netflix, and came across something I wasn't expecting. A documentary directed by William Shatner, is a look at Captain Kirk paying a visit to all the actors who have sat in that iconic chair.
With his unique interview style of listening mostly, then interrupting the speaker with a spot on piece of insight, he talks with Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, and even Chris Pine, the new Captain Kirk.
His interviews with Avery Brooks, aka Captain Sisko, are some of the strangest, yet hauntingly mesmerizing conversations I have ever witnessed. I ended up second guessing myself if I was watching a jazz enthusiast stoned of out his mind singing his answers from behind a piano, or if this was someone on pure-air gone off the deep end.
He also stops at a Star Trek Convention, and terrorizes a number of guests. With photos, signatures, and crowd speaking.
It is a very interesting, if not a slow paced interview piece that fits Shatner well.


Physical: There's not much to talk about the box art with all actors dressed in their Starfleet uniforms mid-beem-up on the cover.
Extras: Barely anything at all. A simple "Making of" special, but no shocker here. Documentary's rarely get much if any special features.


So how would I rate this DVD? If your a big Star Trek fan like me, it's worth spending the $10 on Amazon to get it. If your interested, but not such a huge Trekkie, it's a renter, or like I said earlier, Netflix it.

Round 1 Brooks Bracket

The hits keep coming!
The review of the Brooks Bracket just went up, and even though the run time in nearly triple what the solo look at The Allen Bracket was, this is much more entertaining. Again, all thanks go to Jay for his work on this project.


For Halloween I am dressing up as Walter Sobchak from The BIG Lebowski. Even got a haircut for it!

The Coen Bracket is in "post-production". One more after that, then the first half of Round 1 will be complete.

We are live!

Did you see it? The Great Comedy Playoffs have started!! The first look at 1 of 8 brackets is now online, and the 2nd will be up before the end of the weekend, if not the day!

You can watch round 1 of the Allen Bracket here.

Next time, when you see Round 1 of the Brooks Bracket, you will notice a familiar face. I was lucky enough to get Jay (formally from "Jay's Junk") to add his two cents to the mix. Both you, and I benefit from Jay in 3 ways: 1- You aren't stuck with just me stuttering with a badly written script, 2- He offers, at times, a different view point then just my own, and 3- Jay brings a speech elegance that is both informative, interesting, and witty, something I look up to in him.

I am making it my goal to get a video up each week. A challenge with a full time job, a wife, 2 kids under the age of 5, and a pug.... but I'm up for it!

The Audio Booth Updates however will be sporadic. But when I get enough ideas/thoughts/questions/whatever, I'll throw them together and let you know.

Questions? Comments? Wanna make fun of my fat baby T-Rex-like arms? Say so here!

My Cousin Vinny vs South Park

This is a match up of two movies that shocked the Oscars.

My Cousin Vinny

Why should it move on?: This is a role that Joe Pesci was born for. The acting with he, and the late Fred Gwynne, make some of the best film-making ever. "Two Youts" along with other lines are some of the most memorable. Marisa Tomei is easy on the eyes too, and she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, which to this day some believe there is a conspiracy surrounding it.

Why Not?: Anyone got anything?..........


DYK:Joe Pesci "reprises" the roll on a CD called "Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings For You" with the same character but as a lounge singer style.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Why are people applauding 2 minutes in?

Why should it move on?: Yes, that is the Oscars, and yes that song was nominated for Best Song. 
Which I found shocking because Hollywood acted terrified of the FCC at the time, and South Park was everything they hated! But the movie- It was what I expected it to be: A cused filled, musical about boys wanting to sneak into movies..... actually, not what I expected.
 
Why Not?: It didn't really deliver anything new that fans of South Park haven't seen before. Some of the shows are more shocking then the entire movie.
 
DYK: The movie holds the world record for most swearing in an English speaking movie (399 profane words). The word "fuck" alone is said 139 times (not a record, not even in top 100- 1999's Summer of Sam- 435 times, non-documentary). With the running time of the film, it averages to a profane word about every 6 seconds.

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So it is The Lying Lawyer from NY, or the Cussing Kids from The Rockies?

Either way, leave a comment to vote. And don't forget to fill out a bracket, then send it to billybobsmovies@gmail.com. Winners will get some great prizes, while losers will not get fruit cup!! Subscribe to our youtube channel to watch debates, updates, and details about the entire contest.