Eric’s friends are funny: Sack Lunch TV
Several of my Utah-based friends are involved in something called Sack Lunch TV, whose output so far is three amusing sketches that have been filmed and uploaded to the Interwebs, where you can view them.
The sketches are called “Humble Pie,” “The Man Date,” and “Cheesebigot.” I think all three of them are funny, albeit in varying degrees.
“Humble Pie” (above) has the potential for being the very funniest, except that the editors have partially ruined the effect by having the sketch’s title appear in big, jokey letters at the end, accompanied by too-silly music. Lose that and I think you’ve got something. (The actors in that one are, from left to right, Chris Clark, Jake Suazo, and Matt Mattson. If you put me in a room with those three guys, within 10 minutes I would be laughing until I was peeing. For real.)
“The Man Date,” starring Jake Suazo and Brett Merritt (putting Brett in that room cuts the pee time down to five minutes), needs a different ending. It definitely does not need the clowny-happy music that the editors have used. I’m just sayin’.
Finally, “Cheesebigot,” featuring Chris, Jake, and Brett, is probably my favorite. It has about four different jokes going on at once, some of them contradictory (the guy with the Mexican accent is apparently bigoted toward Mexicans…?), and … well, it’s just funny.
Anyway, there’s Sack Lunch TV. If you enjoy the sketches, tell your friends. If you don’t enjoy them, tell no one. NO ONE!
July 31st, 2007 at 7:25 am
I love it that the guy with the Mexican accent was bigoted. I used to work at a bookstore with a hilarious Indian guy in New Jersey who practically refused to sell anything to other Indians because he was convinced they would just read it and return it. “They think it’s a bloody library!”
July 31st, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Huh, they were kinda’ amusing. But that’s about it.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:16 pm
They are good ideas, but they kind of ruin it with the endings. The third one, for example, could probably have done without showing us the waiter going back to speak with the cook. The core ideas are really good, but they need to get a good finisher in the writing department.
July 31st, 2007 at 8:03 pm
The endings seem to seriously reduce the ultimate amount of funny; the flashy text and music at the endings have to go. Eh, at least the ideas shine. And while I’m at it, the video quality at the Sack Lunch TV website is among the best I’ve seen.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:57 am
It’s probably a lot funnier when you actually know the people involved, too. For not knowing them from Adam, they were OK. The potential was there, and I was anticipating a great payoff, but the great payoff never really happened.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:12 am
Actually, I thought the endings were fine. The slightly delayed timing of the bicycle horn in “Humble Pie” was great. The ending of “Man Date” was the point of the joke. And the scene at the end of “Cheesebigot” capped that joke by taking it one step farther. Not only is the bigoted customer, Tom Davis, a Mexican-sounding guy, but when the larcenous cook, Felipe, lowers his newspaper, we discover he’s an Anglo guy.
August 1st, 2007 at 10:01 am
Sorry, I just didn’t find them that funny. They elicited a weak smile from me, but that’s about it. I kept expecting them to go somewhere, but when it got to the punchline, I found myself asking “That’s it?”. Like Huzzak said, the endings are all pretty weak.
August 1st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I have told no one. NO ONE! And I intend to keep it that way. I can only assume that Eric meant some of his other friends are funny or that his friends are funny, but not in these clips.
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:56 am
I like Jake better as a viking. He was such a good viking…