Tonight Is Rifftrax Live With Guest Paul F. Tompkins!

[Gail Simone]

I love these events, they always kill me with funny. I often walk out of the theater in pain because I've laughed so hard.

And two friends I love, Paul F. Tompkins and Bill Corbett, are going to be kicking it tonight!

YAHOO!

[Ravenwing263]

The whole "MST3k"/"Rifftrax" thing is fairly distasteful to me.

But, enjoy.

[Gail Simone]

What? For heaven's sake, why? These are brilliant comedians, they do what they do with great facility and taste and more than a little affection.

What's distasteful?

[c. page]

Going to the one in Seattle. Went to the Plan 9 From Outer Space one last year and had a blast.

[Linkara]

What? For heaven's sake, why? These are brilliant comedians, they do what they do with great facility and taste and more than a little affection.

What's distasteful?

How dare they make fun of truly classic, well-made pieces of cinema like Warwilf or D-War: Dragon Wars!

[Dreg]

PFT should do an entire rifftrax as Ice Tea or Dame Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[Gail Simone]

When I was on Comedy Death Ray, PFT asked me which character I would like him to be and I chose Dame Sir Andrew. He was HYSTERICAL.

[Ravenwing263]

What? For heaven's sake, why? These are brilliant comedians, they do what they do with great facility and taste and more than a little affection.

What's distasteful?

Just don't see the joy in making a living shitting on other people's creative endeavors, no matter how bad they are or how much "facility" or "taste" is used to do it. And while I don't doubt your claim that it is done with some affection - I don't have enough exposure to dispute something like that - it certainly was not detectable in the few MST3K episodes I've seen and through which I've formed my opinion.

Heckling isn't art to me.

Not like I think They Need to Be Stopped, or anything, but it definitely turns me off.

[Gail Simone]

Yeah, I get that, but I don't think that's what the show is about, really.

[Major Comma]

I think the point of MSTK3/Rifftrax is "They may be considered"Bad Movies"
But we LOVE them"!
And they show that Love by using their gifts of Satire and Comedy.

[c. page]

I think the point of MSTK3/Rifftrax is "They may be considered"Bad Movies"
But we LOVE them"!
And they show that Love by using their gifts of Satire and Comedy.

I don't think you could watch those movies as much as these guys have to, to be able to write the material, and not love them.

[pseudicide]

I have friends who were going to be there and I am jealous!

[The Funketeer]

I'm just offended by people who talk during movies.

[longbowhunter]

Beware the grocery witch !!!!

Sorry...a paper bag told me to post this.

[VenomMelendez]

*raises hand*

What is this all about?

[Matt Doc Martin]

The paper and I short was brilliant. I love these and they are well worth what Cobb Theaters over charges to see them.

[Matt Doc Martin]

I don't think you could watch those movies as much as these guys have to, to be able to write the material, and not love them.

Agreed.

[Gail Simone]

I actually talked with Bill about this a little bit, and my thinking is that, when a movie is a sincere effort, the riffing is different. The venom only comes out with the horrible, mean-spirited films that are meant to be insulting to the audience and the participants.

[LtMarvel]

<- Was I the only one frightened by the blind woman showing up in the closet?

[Gail Simone]

It's a genuine scare in the movie, I agree.

There's a lot of weird stuff in the film that makes little sense, but it's far from a bad film.

The funny thing is, when that woman showed up even during Rifftrax, there were genuine screams in the audience last night!

[Gail Simone]

Another weird thing...according to imdb, the success of this film is what made Alfred Hitchcock decide to do Psycho!