Comments on: Not So Alternative Comedy

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:27:31 +0000

Indeed. What made The Is Spinal Tap so funny was how well-observed the whole thing was. Almost everything that happened in that film was based on real indicents with real bands. Including the infamous Stonehenge scene.

The “Smell The Glove” bit comes over as a mixture of The Scorpions’ “Animal Maghetism” and Whitesnake’s “Reay and Wiling”, for which the original artwork was rejected very late in the day.

By: Jonathan Hill

Jonathan Hill — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:41:04 +0000

The ‘Smell The Glove’ scene from Spinal Tap nails the satire of sexism and political correctness in rock better than anything else ever done. “If she was making YOU smell the glove, then that would have been different.”

And, of course, the immortal, “There’s a fine line between clever and stupid”

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Sat, 23 May 2015 00:54:31 +0000

Right, because god knows Motorhead and Whitesnake are entirely indistinguishable!

… it’s scary that even my in-laws know the difference between them.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 22 May 2015 19:30:33 +0000

That’s precisely the point.

If the joke had been about Whitesnake it might actually have been funny, because it wouldn’t have been based on a lazy and innacurate stereotype.

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Fri, 22 May 2015 19:21:53 +0000

The ultimate irony of that non-joke is that I can’t remember a single Motorhead song where Lemmy actually did brag about his sexual prowess. Gambling, sure, but …