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Ken Burns parody of History of the Comic Strip documentary
As always, a hilarious video via The Doozies and Learn to Draw series creator Tom Gammill:
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As always, a hilarious video via The Doozies and Learn to Draw series creator Tom Gammill:
Community Comments
June/13/2011
@ 10:54 am
LOL! That was pretty good. :)
June/13/2011
@ 11:15 am
Excellent.
June/13/2011
@ 12:41 pm
Ken Burns is really planning a history on comic strips in 2013 for PBS?
Remember the American Masters Charles Schulz/Peanuts episode some years back?
June/13/2011
@ 12:44 pm
I have to admit that when Tom introduced this piece at the Reuben Dinner I fell for it until the video started :-)
Wish Ken Burns was really going to do something – anyone have his number?
June/13/2011
@ 2:11 pm
Don’t attempt to watch this video at work, unless you want unwarranted attention from your co-workers for your snickers and thinly-supressed chortles. I hope R. C. Harvey loved it as much as I did!
June/13/2011
@ 2:41 pm
I asked Bob (Harvey) immediately following its screening what he thought of the short, and he told me he couldn’t hear much of it – he wears a hearing aid – but he did laugh at Jeannie Schulz using his book to crack nuts.
June/13/2011
@ 3:02 pm
@Anne:
Indeed, I have Ken’s number, even going so far as to write him this “open letter” after he and I chatted in D.C. last year: http://wapo.st/co19cg .
* The official reply: Although Mr. Burns enjoyed the piece, his film docket is booked for many years.
If only we could get Tom to make a *real* film. Gammill? Gammill??…
–M.C.
June/14/2011
@ 7:54 am
Haha, Great!
June/14/2011
@ 11:55 am
“…but a fight broke out, over the word ‘chiaroscuro’ and shots were fired.”
Laugh my butt off, that’s the funniest piece of writing I’ve seen in long time! LOL!!
Tom, you are a wizard, sir.
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