Fark.TV: Don't quit your day job, if you have one
In the pantheon of colossal time-wasters, the wildly popular oddball news site Fark.com has few peers. Since 1999, whenever a father uses a stun gun on his infant, or an amusing scam takes over gullible Internet users, or something bizarre happens in Florida (Fark has a whole category just for Sunshine State news), or a new picture of a topless woman is posted anywhere online, you can be assured that within seconds the news will appear at Fark or related sites and be commented upon by scores of snarky readers.
Recently some regulars on Fark.com launched Fark TV, a site with originally produced comedy bits. A horrid idea, it turns out. Remember when TheSmokingGun.com did “Smoking Gun TV”? This is worse.
The ultra-ironic Fark sensibility is absent from these unfunny videos, which include lame parodies of “Cops,” “Kill Bill” and “Da Vinci Code” (what, no “Brokeback Mountain” spoof?). The camera work is unsophisticated, even by YouTube standards.
And now, thanks to Fark TV, the Fark community is starting to learn what it’s like to be the ridiculee instead of the ridiculer. “Question: Is there anything two bloggers, a webmaster, a software developer and a wedding videographer can’t do?” one heckler recently posted to the site. “Answer: Three minutes of comedy.”
I'm sure Fark TV like many others said, "If LonelyGirl and Rocketboom and Ask a Ninja could do it, so can we!" Which kind of makes sense. But from what you just wrote, maybe they could use some specifics about what they're doing wrong. If Fark TV can be funny then that's great, cause I for one always welcome a good laugh (
from Kevin at TasteTV.com)
Posted by: Kevin at TasteTV | February 09, 2007 at 12:00 PM