The WGA has released a series of videos like this one as part of their "Speechless" campaign in support of the striking writers. Full cast list here.
Hey, you know what’d be a great? Famous actors staring at the camera not saying anything. You know, cause, like, if the writers don’t write, than the actors don’t can’t say anything because they’re retarded. Awesome idea! Hey, in case people don’t get it at first, lets have a bunch of people in it. Yeah! And maybe after like 30 seconds they still won’t understand what it’s about, so we’ll drag it out for like three minutes! Yeah! And we’ll call it "Just What’s on the Page". YEAH!
Poor actors are helpless to convey an idea without speaking. Haven’t they ever been to a strip club?
Semi-related and totally self-indulgent note: speaking as a non-union writer who’s not on strike, yours truly has a reading tonight at 8:30 at the Ding Dong Lounge on 106th and Columbus in Manhattan, so if you live in the NYC area, and are clamoring for more of my semi-coherent ramblings, feel free to attend. Actors will still not be allowed to speak.
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Actors will still not be allowed to speak.
Sorry, if I don’t get a turn, then count me out.
i’m supposed to go all the way up to 106th to hang out with a bunch of columbia douchebags at a place called the ding dong lounge? you can’t make that stuff up.
come on. you can do better than that. there’s a strip club in long island city i’m pretty sure i can hook you up at.
I wonder who wrote the commercial.
You know what? That’d be a lot more effective if they got, like, famous actors to do it. I mean, seriously, who was that blond chick? It looked kind of like Jenna Elfman, but didn’t that chick die in 2002?
The Mighty Fek’lhr had secretly hoped that if the writers were on strike, then maybe all of the shitty tv and movie production would stop. Oh, well…
There’s a huge drop-off in talent there.
Martin Sheen
Demi Moore
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Deidrich Bader?
Was this done by David Wain? It sounds like him behind the camera.
I shouldn’t have said talent. I meant recognition.
When the check out clerk strike hit a few years back would the concept cross over to have people with carts full of groceries just standing around?
Air traffic controller strike would be the shit. Planes crashing into one another at 30,000ft and plummeting into metro areas, slamming into airport terminals. Fuck, Jerry Suckhiemer is probably gonna steal that for a movie plot.
Then there’s the stripper’s union in San Fransisco. It would be a bunch of guys sitting around eating chicken wings throming money on an empty stage then jacking off in the men’s room.
It’s pretty obvious that these dipshits are looking for work once the writers get off their overpaid, under achieving asses and get back to work.
Writer: "Hey, I’m gonna shoot a commercial with actors using blank scripts and not saying anything. You wanna get down on this?"
Hack out of work actor: "Why the fuck not? You got a cherry gig comin’ my way if I do?"
Writer: "Hellz yeah! I’m gonna write a fuckin’ remake of Mork and Mindy for the big screen and would love for you to be in it."
Hack out of work actor: "Nanoo Nanoo motherfucker."
Hey, he was great as Oswald on the Drew Carey Show. And that stoner dude in Office Space. And Jethro in the Beverly Hillbillies movie.
chod, bro, if we could somehow came up with a device that filters the unwanted liquid so itd be fine to consume then we’d be millionaires!
TO THE LAB!!!
That’s why I corrected myself, Biquini. I love Deidrich Bader for his body (of work). But really, how many people know who the hell he is?
Director sounds like me giving blowjob instructions.
Mpmmh-fmm-hoor-mphhh True entertainment is when the performer doesn’t have to say a word.
dub, wtf?
They would have written a more clever commercial, but hey, they are on strike. But if they wanted to write a better commercial they totally could have. Trust me.
Fek, shhhh!
(this blank space courtesy of the writers strike )
and my lack of caring whatsever about it. this is as lame as the dont steal movies shite
Sssshhhh His fat hairy Klingon ass!
i wish the writer’s guild would pay me (at least) like $200,000 this year – and then i’d just stand there and look all "darfur" with my hands out and say, "give me more"…
i’m sorry, but i just can’t feel bad for these writers- especially with the turds that 99 percent of them scribble out in crayon. the good writers are already making bank and could probably care less about an extra couple grand a year.
*chodin tilts his head down, raises black, olympic fist into the air*
Fek’ check out my previous post on the previous thread.
I think it’s the movie executives fault, truthfully. The people who greenlight shit movies. The writers deserve more money because of the shit movies they are forced to write for.
What’s funny is, Fox announced that they are moving forward with "Family Guy" without Seth McFarlane. Speaks volumes. Coolest thing Fox has ever got right on purpose.
where the fuck is the comment thread i’ve bookmarked that motherfucker like 3 times this week and they’ve all expired, WTF lance!!
nevamind hommie i found the thread
bex – [www.filmdrunk.com]
Nah, just summarize dub.
I think it’s cute how you call Jenna Elfman and Josh Brolin "famous."
fek you lazy fuck. i accidentally drunk a beer with a cigarette butt in it (thus makin the beer undrinkable) earlier today and chodin said he’s done his fair share of the same. hence my previous statement of makin a device that can filter the beer so pep can drink it.
btw what the fuck is kimbo?
if anything i’m a vagina pleaser.
dub: "if we could somehow came up with a device that filters the unwanted liquid"
*chodin and dub are hunched over in their living room. stoned as fuck, they pour dirty beers into a big bucket as wu-tang booms in the background. dub reaches into the bucket as he makes robot noises, "vvvvvvvvvvvvv, beep-beep, vvrrroooooooo". dub picks out several cigarette butts. chodin lifts the bucket up and beer bongs the liquid back into several empty bottles. dub carries them to the fridge. *
Bex – Kimbo Slice, foo. The biggest, baddest, blackest dude alive.
[www.youtube.com]
chodin, you beautiful genius!!! we fuckn did it!!!! we’re patenting this bitch..
lance – i pray you realize that on inthevip.com, you can buy tee shirts with kimbo’s beautiful, bearded face on them…not that i ever visit those grooosssssss websites or anything…
*click-click, close-window, shrink-window, click-click, [enter]*
inthevip.com sells shits too?? what a country!!
aww crap +r
I made another funny, go ninja go ninja go!!
alright niggas, it’s time for me to sign off.
"where my money at?"
dub: i’ll see yo’ ass at the GYM nigga!!!!!!
bex: vanilla ice killed that shit!
when did the editors go on strike?
man i looooooooooooove being a turtle!!!
sometimes when i orgasm, i’ll jump up out of bed and scream "COWWAAABUNNGGAAAA" and then slam the phone down.
peace out drunkkas i’ll see you all tomorrow
Sometimes when I orgasm, my dick goes limp, and then I see that it’s kinda swollen. My old lady just cant get enough of that wonderful stuff.
Lazy fuck??? The Mighty Fek’lhr is busy running a campaign, you know! In fact, not only will He endorse stem cell research, but He will unveil a new plan to increase research for brewing beer with bong water so you can get drunk *and* high at the same time! Register to vote at your local public library.
Sometimes when I come, I shit the bed or vomit, then ball up in the corner of the room crying telling Mommy that I am sorry.
true story: one of my buddies saw a porno where the "male lead" was about to bust and he goes, "hey- you see that clock over there?" and then the camera cuts to a shot of this clock. then the dude starts polishing his knob and he says "GA-DEEEEESH!!!!!" and blasts his ecto-plasm across the room and kills the clock.
Mommy is the name for my fleshlight.
i call mine "johnny number 5" because batteries are not included (actually, you don’t even need them!!!!).
HY-OOOOOOOOO!!!!!
i am disturbed by your crazy ramblings
In the silence left by the writers producers will turn to the only thing available to them… the Quidditch World Cup live in HD.
Mak’dar! The Mighty Fek’lhr has just the guy’cha-ing solution to this rotting pile of forshak that is the writer’s strike: Either you lo’Bevos motherless Mak’dars get back to your jobs, or The Mighty One will waste your toh’Pah asses and Qi’yah all of your favourite pets!
Fek, that was all Ferengi to me.
so I’m not SUPPOSED to know who all of these people are right?
I mean I know a lot of them are from cancelled TV shows.. some of them must be fillers, like some waitress gave the director guy a blow job at the dinner before going onto the set and since he’d PROMISED her a role he just kinda threw her in there before slapping her face and not calling her again. That’ll show her to swallow faster…
Maybe now Hollywood will green light my Evil Koala script.
You know who I’d cast as an evil koala?
You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
when i come i usualy get to where im going
nidgga!’s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m fuckn drunk rite now, therefore i do not care whewther i’mgrammatically correctr or not!! i just had two sisters at my pad tonite! (chod nigga, you shoulda chilled after teh gym!!!) fuck my rite arm is hurtin! so what it do motherfucers? yu’s allmy niggas(chod, jhc, erswi,nommy, jack!) fuck!!!!!!!! ghost of chris benoits sons whetere thefuck is you motherfucker?! nigga!!1 i just finsihed watchin american gangster, that shit was so baller *(even after the fifth time watchin it)! PEACE!!!!!!! niddas!!!!!!!
wow, either Richard Prior is back or The Dog is reading commenting on blogs now… either way that’s pretty cool…
This would have gotten her oscar in Striptease had she chosen to go this route with the character.
I wonder what scab they hired to write this.