This video was funny. In a non-sarcastic way.
Reviews for "How to be funny"
A few pointers which make me feel like this comment may be deleted but anyway:
It wasn't actually funny. Sounds to me like your doing the same things that you're making fun of in the first place. Tomska, while not one of the best of course, gave something that was funny and interesting. Asdf videos may not appeal to all but they were funny for the soul reason of being random. And yes random is funny when done right. You, however, were random in a completely unfunny way. Yo Mamma Jokes? I haven't heared a joke like that since...God knows when. Nad the only person making Chuck Norris jokes is the Nostalgia Critic (his name is excuse enough for that. Plus it's funny with him). I've seen a lot of videos about How To on youtube, newqrounds, and some other places. So if you think you are original, think again. And using an excuse like "I made this in a few hours" is unprofessional. I'd rather see a video that took a year to make but is GOOD, that to watch a crappy video that was done fast. In the end I would like to say that your video was unfunny and unfair to the people that you made fun of. Now my advise is: Take more time. Prepare a GOOD video. And watch those ratings go through the roof. I admit I'm also annoyed by random swearing so don't use it. The only person who does it well is Egoraptor because...you know...Egoraptor is the God of this site. You could be awesome because you did something mildly entertaining in a few hours. Imagine what you could do in a year.
finally a guide to be cool and funny
nice job man :D
5 just for the prod at Egos on the Net. Nice work and great voice acting. When I finally put something on NG ill use this as a reference.... Kewdos
MistyE responds:
Great to hear!
Golly. Why does this seem familiar to me? I can't quite place my finger on it.
You know, using that "How to" formula isn't copying off of Oney and I, but you literally ripped several things right from our video. I love how you even USE a few things in this video that you bash (i.e., stealing jokes and content).
Let's get the stuff you blatantly ripped off so I can actually review this.
1.) The field when the narrator is speaking.
2.) The black background and white text when the narrator is speaking.
3.) The title is even partially ripped off.
4.) The entire fucking formula, it even starts off with "Step 1".
5.) The entire :
6.) The "chances are" is the exact same position and size and nearly identically drawn to "Let's Go!"
7.) The random curse word part was an entire bullet point for our video.
8.) The entire steal other people's content was also essentially stolen word for word.
8.) "It makes things way funnier" is a direct word for word copy.
Let me say though, I wouldn't mind if you had stolen all of those things and written a well rounded parody with stingful satire at a certain audience, or were at least bashing a certain thing. I'm also going to say not everything listen above was clearly INVENTED by Chris and I, but the context you used it in was near identical, and that was obvious. I'll take these copies as a flattery I guess. Now that that's out of the way, time to review this video by itself.
The art work didn't stand out a lot, they were for the most part bland and obnoxious. Tracing characters shouldn't be too hard, so I'd expect the Peter Griffin trace to be amazing, but it was really messy and awkward. Drawing Ray's face as a caricature would've been funny, however instead you've just cut out his face. The narrator was the one of the only characters that were fully drawn and not stick figures or cyanide and happiness style. It was bland, nothing stood out, and it was cheap. I would expect if you're going to draw so few characters you'd at least put effort into the few there were.
There was little to no animation, the animation was was there was a bit awkward, and there were very few inbetweens. The inbetweens that were there had some sort of stretched out effect, like you tried to make it look like it was going fast but it went by really slowly and it was awkward to look at. For animation improvement, I'd highly suggest purchasing "The Animator's Survival Guide" by Richard Williams. You'll learn a lot from it and your FBF will improve. Again, though, like the artwork, didn't stand out to me. I was sort of hoping the characters would stop moving so I wouldn't puke from vertigo with all the lines having a seizure.
The music was from Ren and Stimpy so I can't credit you with that, but it did suit at least. The voice actor did a good job, and is probably one of the only highlights about this video. His audio quality was clear, he spoke properly, and said every line with precision. He did a great job. It's a shame you had to cut out his other 4 things, couldn't you have just switched the cut off joke to the end?...
The writing is where I had the biggest issues. Stealing jokes aside, the writing was scattered and chaotic, not really pinpointing anything relevant or current. Chuck Norris, yo mama jokes, Family Guy, and Ray William Johnson? I'm not sure who you were trying to make a satire about. 13 year old's is very vague, but again, it was scattered and moved around to random subjects really quickly. Chuck Norris and yo mama jokes aren't anything to be angry about unless you're living in 2003.
You also seemed to bash Tomska at the end, which is weird. He came out of nowhere. Regardless of whether you think asdf is funny or not is irrelviant, it's undiable he can pull off what he's tyring to.
In the end, this seemed like you getting angry at your shitty shit getting negative reviews. So improve, don't blame the people, blame yourself. They're not the ones making you bad. It's you. Just improve and get better with every video instead of saying "IT'S YOU NOT ME THAT NEEDS TO GET BETTER".
Good luck.