I don't know what I expected from Coolio's Cooking show. It kinda looks like they're having fun, but it's walking a really weird line between serious cooking show and crazy.
In a way, this is the same sort of pseudo-instructional video genre I talked about last time with My Damn Channel, but it's less funny than "You Suck at Photoshop" and I think I can pinpoint a couple of reasons that may help figure out what you need to to in mocku-structional genre:
The biggest failure is that Coolio can't seem to cook for shit. His first recipe is caprese salad. YOU CAN'T FUCK THIS UP! But he's got each ingredient spread all over the place on the plate in ways that can't get in the same bite... I take my munchies seriously. If you're gonna slice a big tomato, slice a big ball of mozz. If you're going with little chunks of mozzarella, split up grape tomatoes or something. And then onions? I dunno about that one bit. The photoshop dude was clearly good at photoshop and using it to fuel the humor.
Dumb gags unrelated to the frame - it's kinda funny to have the spices look like drugs... kinda... but remember, if you're gonna get stones from weed when you cook, you gotta hot-it-up. Ain't gonna work otherwise.
Coolio is trying WAY too hard. He tries to make at least three different catch phrases stick in the span of five minutes. It's like when the dumb girl in mean girls keeps trying to make "fetch" into a catch-phrase. That's can't work can it? The photoshop guy is pretty subtle about being crazy. It seeps out in the framing and it's related to the picture he's doctoring in each webisode.
I do think Jerez is kinda funny. Like so ridiculous that he makes his end of it work. He just repeats everything Coolio says and helps jump in on his tag-lines.
In conclusion - to be funny in a mock-you-structional: 1) know the content, so the basic frame is believable and can save you. 2) Be quirky funny within the frame 3) Don't force it.
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Damn. I disagree. You must've been smokin' that Mexican Brick weed and got a headache before you watched that shit. Don't get me wrong, I did that Photoshop shit too, but we're talking about to different kinda performers here. I can't wait to see the next Coolio show!
I'd give it another shot, I guess. The thing that would really make me happy was if I believed Coolio enjoyed cooking.
It just looked like an excuse to make a show and act crazy, it might as well have been watercolors with Coolio.
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