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Funny Writers' Strike Stuff


8:33 AM  December 12, 2007

Credit goes to Nikki Finke's excellent site for finding two hilarious satires relating to the writers walkout.

Amptp_logo_new The first is a parody of the AMPTP webpage.  A couple of writers bought the domain name http://amptp.com.  The Alliance for Motion Picture and Television Producer's REAL website is at www.amptp.org

The parody does a good job of making fun of the whole situation.   Here's an excerpt:

The writers are demanding respect they haven't earned, privileges they don't deserve, and money for work they haven't done. And those are perquisites we reserve solely for the severance packages of departing CEOs.

Read the whole thing before the producers have their lawyers go to court to take the site down.

And there's also an amusing review of picket locations around town, made to sound like the Zagat's restaurant guide:

2007 STRIKERS GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES STUDIOS

zagat.jpgCBS RADFORD
Once the "ultimate destination" for the "proletarian struggle," now this "no frills" "bunker" is a "safe bet" for avoiding anyone you've "slept with." "Ample construction dust" and "non-specific anxiety" make visiting the MacDonald's bathroom a "high point" at this "bland", "very casual" locale. "A gem."

DISNEY STUDIOS
When it comes to "waving cardboard" at the shadow of a "frozen, Nazi-loving ghost," the sine quo non is this "stand-by", "folksy" institution. "A slice of Fascism" proclaiming "free air" and "live squirrels," the Disney Imagineers seem to have "worked overtime" in providing "the feeling you are being recorded," but more "for retribution than for pay.

Clearly, there are a lot of brilliant writers with too much time on their hands because they are not working.

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