Marge has failure hams fortified with Zoloft in the freezer because she’s always prepared for his unpreparation. But improv classes teach us to believe in the premise and it’s not a break in character for Homer to be unprepared. He’s zinged Burns before, peed onscreen in a virtual reality body suit and been called up on stage by magicians, hypnotists and motivational speakers. It’s kind of a break in character to have Homer be afraid of public speaking. Homer Simpson hasn’t said no to anything since he almost had an affair with a co-worker in the fifth season. If you say no, you kill whatever set up your partner was trying to throw at you and kill all momentum. It doesn’t matter if you learn it at a comedy club or on a cruise ship. The first rule of improv comedy is to always say yes. Besides his improvised vocalizing in the episode fade-outs, like the Steve Miller “Joker” song, the head of the Simpson family will do, or eat, anything. It’s just that his answer involves coloring children’s books whilst mumbling something about a beef burrito at Chipotle.The Simpsons pull funny stuff out of their butt in “Simprovised.”Homer Simpson was born for improv comedy. I know, it’s not fair to the great Oz, but coincidentally he himself is going through his personal version of decay and deterioration.
Reading this novel, you get the feeling this is what Ozzy Osbourne might have documented as “going off the rails in a Crazy Train,” had Sharon advised him to go to University and get an English Literature degree. By the novel’s end, Markson elegantly presents Kate’s immersion in a world that is the embodiment of Wittgenstein’s final proposition. Only Markson is a brilliant writer who masterfully weaves this barrage of philosophical references and European history into truly funny scenarios, while I. See, this sort of thing isn’t necessarily new for example, I’ve often imagined a scenario in which Johann Sebastian Bach coincidentally meets up with Sebastian Bach, lead singer of Skid Row, in a roadside diner outside Tucumcari, New Mexico - both men road tripping through the United States in search of those melancholic times when Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady sped down Route 66, lighting joints and wreaking general havoc. hi Rembrandt, how’s the bankruptcy going?” “Fine, Spinoza. Kate then riffs off these two anecdotes with the fact that Rembrandt lived in Amsterdam as a contemporary of the philosopher Spinoza, to produce an imagined conversation between the two famous men in a retail establishment: “Oh. This line of thought continues with Rembrandt’s eventual financial bankruptcy. Pretty heavy, yeah? But don’t despair Markson gives Kate - a one-time artist - this magnificent ability to jumble information about places, people, works of art, into dozens of strange, wonderful, laugh-out-loud amalgams a brilliant, historical mash-up one almost wishes were visual worthy of residing eternally within YouTube annals.įor example, there’s the Candid Camera-like story that Rembrandt’s students sheepishly painted images of gold coins on his studio floor, which the Maestro would stoop to pick up no matter how often the trick was repeated.
#Bart simpson one hand clapping series#
The novel’s inspiration comes from Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus,” a series of short propositions presented in a logical sequence, culminating in the final decree: “What we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence.” Kate’s musings are all over the maps of Western history, arts, and the physical world itself. But now dig this: what is the sound of the last human being left on earth, slowly going insane? Or, rather, what do her thoughts sound like in our heads?ĭavid Markson shows us in Wittgenstein’s Mistress in the form of quick, shifting, one-sentence paragraphs, which Kate, our singular, lone remaining animal on this planet, furiously types out in a beach house on Long Island.
One of the most famous Kōans goes something like: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Before you get all worked up and run to the Zen section of your newly-purchased IKEA bookshelf (dare I say, that is one handsome bibliopegy!), relax: Bart Simpson has already figured it out.
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