Trick or Treat: Eric Schaeffer rises from the dead, yet again. And again.
Okay -- I have had a bit of insider info on this fact, but I sat on it, so to speak, for a while to see if what I'd heard a while back was only grandiose posturing on my "insider's" part:
However, alas, it's sad, but all too true. Eric Schaeffer's shows continue to air despite his nauseating track record in with a new series on Starz called "Gravity" and/or "Failure To Fly" which he's shooting based on the really funny subject of suicide. Variety announces, here. This I learned having read Nathan Rabin's funny piece, Eric Schaeffer sadistically, inexplicably given new television show
I don't get it. I don't get why Larry David is the only comic writer who can gracefully pull off touchy subject matter without pissing people off?
I think the answer is due to the fact that, David is a great writer and a comic genius. Making me laugh about peanut allergies is almost impossible to do, but he succeeded. Also, hard to do is crack me up about dating girls in wheelchairs. Again, he pulled it off. Without attacking the subject matter he still sends up the way others deal with it. Not everyone can do this so easily.
So, why do so many other writer assume to write something about something "taboo" is naturally going to be funny? Unless you are a really talented writer, attempting comedy based on taboo subject matter in a cavalier, balls-to-the-wall way usually just makes you look like a jerk. But, apparently even "jerky" sells, these days. Who'd have thunk it? Apparently, if you think like a douche bag there's gold there in them there hollywood hills. (As if there ever weren't.)
Yet, inspite of Schaeffer's scattershot, irresponsible penchant for writing about taboo themes in a
"funny way" that really make folks cringe, at best, amazingly, Hollywood still loves this guy.
As much as I'd love to drive a wooden stake through this guy's heart before he can ever get within 250 of any female I care about, the fact remains that he has even more shows coming up.
Apparently airing a "semi-autobiagraphical" series which is overtly misogynistic, narcissistic and really disgusting = good business. Guess that's why I drive a shitty minivan and he, well, doesn't.
Anyhow, my point being that now, Mr. Sensitive has another new series, called Gravity, which is, I assume another "dark comedy," based on the subject of suicide, and not an eating disorder, as was the subject of his other show"Starved."
Something, I hope his fellow cast members won't consider once they're on set with him.
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Krysten Ritter, left, Ivan Sergei and Ving Rhames (Getty)
By the way, if you care to read a truly bizarre account of what it's like to date Schaeffer, I've included a link below to one of the most bizarrely graphic accounts of spending intimate personal time with the self-described "quadruple threat" Mr. Schaeffer.
Here's how one reader describes this account:
"Bimbo starfucker vomits out some word-soup. Ring a ding ding, thats what I call pizazz!"
Or, as original author titles it: "Sorry girls...he's single."
However, alas, it's sad, but all too true. Eric Schaeffer's shows continue to air despite his nauseating track record in with a new series on Starz called "Gravity" and/or "Failure To Fly" which he's shooting based on the really funny subject of suicide. Variety announces, here. This I learned having read Nathan Rabin's funny piece, Eric Schaeffer sadistically, inexplicably given new television show
I don't get it. I don't get why Larry David is the only comic writer who can gracefully pull off touchy subject matter without pissing people off?
I think the answer is due to the fact that, David is a great writer and a comic genius. Making me laugh about peanut allergies is almost impossible to do, but he succeeded. Also, hard to do is crack me up about dating girls in wheelchairs. Again, he pulled it off. Without attacking the subject matter he still sends up the way others deal with it. Not everyone can do this so easily.
So, why do so many other writer assume to write something about something "taboo" is naturally going to be funny? Unless you are a really talented writer, attempting comedy based on taboo subject matter in a cavalier, balls-to-the-wall way usually just makes you look like a jerk. But, apparently even "jerky" sells, these days. Who'd have thunk it? Apparently, if you think like a douche bag there's gold there in them there hollywood hills. (As if there ever weren't.)
Yet, inspite of Schaeffer's scattershot, irresponsible penchant for writing about taboo themes in a
"funny way" that really make folks cringe, at best, amazingly, Hollywood still loves this guy.
As much as I'd love to drive a wooden stake through this guy's heart before he can ever get within 250 of any female I care about, the fact remains that he has even more shows coming up.
Apparently airing a "semi-autobiagraphical" series which is overtly misogynistic, narcissistic and really disgusting = good business. Guess that's why I drive a shitty minivan and he, well, doesn't.
Anyhow, my point being that now, Mr. Sensitive has another new series, called Gravity, which is, I assume another "dark comedy," based on the subject of suicide, and not an eating disorder, as was the subject of his other show"Starved."
Something, I hope his fellow cast members won't consider once they're on set with him.
.Krysten Ritter, left, Ivan Sergei and Ving Rhames (Getty)
By the way, if you care to read a truly bizarre account of what it's like to date Schaeffer, I've included a link below to one of the most bizarrely graphic accounts of spending intimate personal time with the self-described "quadruple threat" Mr. Schaeffer.
Here's how one reader describes this account:
"Bimbo starfucker vomits out some word-soup. Ring a ding ding, thats what I call pizazz!"
Or, as original author titles it: "Sorry girls...he's single."
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