In a suit, on a treadmill, funkadelic greenscreen effects = COMEDY GOLD!

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1825&pageid=1

I think I like cracked.com...

Understatement


Cracked also has a nice collection of "local access TV" clips including of course The Spirit of Troof and The Most Patient TV Host In The World. Swearing being broadcast live with a probably-single-digit audience is FUNNY!

I hadn't seen one of the clips that Cracked.com now introduced to me.

Now it's my fave.

LET'S PAINT!
It's unintentionally funny even from the beginning, but if you are impatient, the really insane stuff starts around 3.5 minutes in -- not sure if it was the director or the cameraman whose drugs finally kicked in?



the host is on eBay, selling his painted wares
http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=johnkilduff-fineart

...After a couple of years spoofing talk shows and the Home Shopping Network, Kilduff realized that if he combined his first calling as a painter with the ramshackle seat-of-your-pants inventiveness of cable access, he'd produce something new -- a mutant strain of instructional art television.

Boisterous, irreverent and surreal, Let's Paint TV is nevertheless utterly sincere in its espousal of painting as a path of creative liberation. If anything, it jettisons the inverse snobbery of the Bob Ross tradition, assuming a sophisticated audience informed by the inescapable influence of Modernism and the indeterminate sincerity of post -- Saturday Night Live television. It turns out Let's Paint TV is indeed a clever parody of Bob Ross and company, but -- like so much parody, from Don Quixote to the novelty music of Spike Jones -- this one turns out to be better art than that at which it pokes fun...

- "The Joy of Painting Saddam", LA Weekly

[Mr. Analog]

...this is literally the GREATEST THING

How did I miss this? I'm going to have to buy a treadmill now

[Darren Dirt]

Epic thread resurrection!

And epic that Cracked.com is still just as damn addictive, 8 years later!

...And uber-epic that the treadmill-walking greenscreen background painting guy in a suit video is still there on YT after all these years 

I'm guessing he makes some decent coin from his eBay offerings @ http://www.ebay.com/usr/johnkilduff-fineart



I mean yeesh $500 for a roll of toilet paper! http://www.ebay.com/itm/181568488451

Toilet Paper Roll #2
Oil on Canvas
12"x 9"
Kilduff, John

This painting is part of my bathroom series....paintings for your bathroom!

ftw.

[Mr. Analog]

I didn't even see how old the thread was yowza!

I'm glad YouTube hasn't died yet

[Darren Dirt]

I didn't even see how old the thread was yowza!

He's still at it!
https://www.youtube.com/user/letspainttv/videos

Also, that LA Weekly article linked above, the URL slightly changed, worth a read: http://www.laweekly.com/arts/the-joy-of-painting-saddam-2138759

[Mr. Analog]

Nice!