I hate smoking and I don’t do drugs. Absolutely love The Pick of Destiny. Like, I watched the HPO show, the outtakes, listened to the live albums, and would love a sequel.
Your calling it bad makes me curious: what’s are your favorite comedies? Tenacious D is basically an Adult Swim concept (see Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, for example) that somehow ended up on HPO.
I’m curious if you enjoy this style of comedy at all.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The Big Short straddles the line between drama and comedy, but it’s a favorite of mine. Of my favorites, the one closest to Tenacious D in tone would probably be something like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox story, which still has plenty of dick jokes, including right in the title, but I’m not sure I could articulate why I really enjoyed one and hated the other besides that one made me laugh way more.
mohab@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Yeah, Walk Hard is dope, but it’s a bit more grounded and obviously meant as a parody of the rockstar mythology.
The Big Short is possibly the most serious Adam McKay has been in a film. Like, it’s a dramedy, but I’d say it’s a lot more elevated than something like Anchorman, for example.
I would say Tenacious D is less grounded and looser than these two, so from that perspective I can understand why you didn’t enjoy it.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Well, Airplane and Naked Gun are surely less grounded than Tenacious D, and I love those. Like I said, I don’t know that I can articulate this down to something measurable. The company I watched it with didn’t think too highly of it either. But I do still pull up those opening and closing songs on YouTube from time to time.
mohab@piefed.social 13 hours ago
I don’t think anyone is going to argue Pick.of Destiny is funnier than these two perfectly put together joke machines, TBH. Not even Jack Black would.