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Dramatic readings
« on: September 18, 2015, 01:23:27 pm »
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I was contemplating doing some dramatic readings of King Missile songs, but now I wonder if I should do some dramatic readings of bad books and screenplays like 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight.

I'm sure both can be amusing.

Anybody else do dramatic readings for comedic effect?
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2015, 01:31:51 pm »
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2015, 02:21:35 pm »
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Hmm, or maybe famous books that end abruptly at a point where it could be taken dirty. Nothing comes to mind, though, which means I'd have to Google something weird like "children's books that sound dirty but aren't."

And I'm not thinking of full dramatic scenes. I feel like this may work best in bite-sized chunks. I know quite a few people in the burlesque scene, including people who put on shows. I could offer my services as in-between. That also takes a little pressure off the emcee, which is good because not all shows have a professional emcee. Sometimes it's the producer of the show filling in the gaps.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2015, 05:56:20 pm »
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I would recommend some James Joyce!

Classic literary figure, but man... his love letters were something!

In fact they might be too much, depending on your own sensibilities and those of your audience...

I don't even feel comfortable quoting them here.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2015, 06:54:42 pm »
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Hmm, or maybe famous books that end abruptly at a point where it could be taken dirty. Nothing comes to mind, though, which means I'd have to Google something weird like "children's books that sound dirty but aren't."

What about children's books that are dirty, like Everyone Poops?  I heard Morgan Freeman already read that one, though.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2015, 06:58:35 pm »
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I also heard that Gilbert Gottfried (sp?) did a reading of 50 Shades. That wouldn't stop me from doing it at a burlesque show.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2015, 08:10:06 pm »
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I seem to remember that a folk or country band covered just U2 songs, making the lyrics sound ridiculous.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2015, 10:01:37 pm »
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I would recommend some James Joyce!

Classic literary figure, but man... his love letters were something!

In fact they might be too much, depending on your own sensibilities and those of your audience...

I don't even feel comfortable quoting them here.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2015, 12:13:39 am »
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I found this channel a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgSkNFQhiqQ4ewAEflcD5lg
He dramatic reading for hilariously terrible fictions, including intentionally bad ones and bad fan-fictions.

For starters, try My Immortal:

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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2015, 01:21:35 am »
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Heh, fan-fictions seem too easy.

There was a dramatic reader at tonight's show. He read "auto"biographies from Diana Ross and Tiger Woods. This guy apparently makes this his thing. He reads bad celebrity autobiographies so you don't have to.

And he was able to make the Tiger Woods one sound really dirty. When the guy writes about stroking balls and making the head feel heavy at the end of the shaft, you don't need a lot of assistance in making that sound dirty.
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Re: Dramatic readings
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2015, 09:28:03 am »
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I seem to remember that a folk or country band covered just U2 songs, making the lyrics sound ridiculous.

I recently watched some Weird Al Yankovic videos and was under the Impression that polkafication had the same effect. It was particularly funny with his "Angry White Boy Polka".
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