{"id":479,"date":"2007-04-02T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/479"},"modified":"2007-04-02T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:00:08","slug":"speaking-of-blades-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Blades of Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Matt commented on seeing Blades of Glory (Matt&#8217;s score: One surprising thumbs up) it reminded me of this bit of genius marketing &#8211; the PR people for Blades of Glory got <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=XQM2VYaWzSs\">Ask A Ninja to come to their press junket day<\/a>. And the results are spectacular. Particularly considering Ninja holds his own against Will Farrell, who can set lesser comedians on fire apparently. Just by quipping at them.<\/p>\n<p>Local boy (local to me, anyhow) Paul Campbell leaves Battlestar Galactica (via a bullet no less) and moves to Hollywood. And gets a pilot! A meta pilot sitcom. And it&#8217;s funny. But that just means execs don&#8217;t want it. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=uEYCN3hVTYI\">So they put it up on YouTube<\/a>. And then they start making<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=pJsDfLndlKU\"> YouTube shorts<\/a>. Meta YouTube shorts. And they&#8217;re funny. Now there&#8217;s pressure to get the show made. Boy, I hope so. I hate TV right now.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re looking for a good comedy podcast (which are hard to find), I&#8217;d like to recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/handheldcomedy.com\/index.php?task=ms&#038;id=8\">I Love Movies<\/a> with Doug Benson. Doug runs with the Mr. Show circle of comedians, so his guest list is solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Matt commented on seeing Blades of Glory (Matt&#8217;s score: One surprising thumbs up) it reminded me of this bit of genius marketing &#8211; the PR people for Blades of Glory got Ask A Ninja to come to their press junket day. And the results are spectacular. Particularly considering Ninja holds his own against Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}