http://www.bloggernews.net/119650 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:09:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/119650#comment-1010423 malcolm Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:12:28 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/119650#comment-1010423 I've never understood pride in ignorance. I don't mean the word "ignorance" to be derogatory, I mean it as it is defined. I also don't mean to imply you are proud per se, I just wonder why you didn't look into this established comedian just a little. If I was to review Louis Ck and new nothing about his oeuvre it would be no effort to google or youtube his name and find almost his whole career archived in video performances (and since I came upon this review on the internet, I can assume you have as much access to these media as I have). Wouldn't that make a more informed review? I think your review was honest, but it wouldn't have taken a lot of time to do a little research in to what Louis did before Chewed Up to see it's significance in relation to his work as a whole. Obviously you may have come to the same conclusion if you had researched his previous work, I'm not refuting your opinion. A second point I would like to make refers to the term "laugh track": It implies the laughs were artificially edited in. It's a term also known as "canned laughter" which is a device invented by Charles Douglass to fake an audience laugh on the comedy TV shows of yesteryear, this is certainly not the case with Chewed Up. You may not have meant to suggest the laughter was artificial but this is indeed the definition of "laugh track". I’ve never understood pride in ignorance. I don’t mean the word “ignorance” to be derogatory, I mean it as it is defined. I also don’t mean to imply you are proud per se, I just wonder why you didn’t look into this established comedian just a little. If I was to review Louis Ck and new nothing about his oeuvre it would be no effort to google or youtube his name and find almost his whole career archived in video performances (and since I came upon this review on the internet, I can assume you have as much access to these media as I have). Wouldn’t that make a more informed review? I think your review was honest, but it wouldn’t have taken a lot of time to do a little research in to what Louis did before Chewed Up to see it’s significance in relation to his work as a whole. Obviously you may have come to the same conclusion if you had researched his previous work, I’m not refuting your opinion. A second point I would like to make refers to the term “laugh track”: It implies the laughs were artificially edited in. It’s a term also known as “canned laughter” which is a device invented by Charles Douglass to fake an audience laugh on the comedy TV shows of yesteryear, this is certainly not the case with Chewed Up. You may not have meant to suggest the laughter was artificial but this is indeed the definition of “laugh track”.

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