Ape Rape - The Future of TV
I recently used the Internets to download Armando Iannucci's television program Time Trumpet (link). The year is 2031 and Armando chats with guests, including old timers like Bob Geldof, Tom Cruise, and David Beckham about the past. It's an amazing show and while you can't get a DVD yet the website is great for watching short clips, or you can use YouTube (link) or the Internets. However You can get a DVD of the spectacular 2004 series The Armando Iannucci shows (link) But enough - you are reading this post for Ape Rape, sorry for the delay.
It turns out the hit show of the future is Rape an Ape (link) The popular program is turned into a franchise, which leads of course to Rape a Celebrity Ape (link).
Rape is so goldarn funny, ain't it?
Posted by: Krys O. | March 06, 2007 at 01:47 PM
Not that any kind of rape is funny, but the phrase "Ape Rape" apparently comes from the title of an X-Rated pulp novel written by Vin Saxon, AKA minor rockabilly star Ron Haycock, composer of "99 Chicks." As the late Cub Koda notes, Haycock/Saxon came to an appropriately "pulpy end": "andering lost down an exit ramp trying to head into Los Angeles, a disoriented Ron Haydock was struck and killed by an 18 wheeler on August 13, 1977."
There some info here: http://www.answers.com/topic/ron-haydock
Also, a long interview that mentions that particular title here: http://www.crazedfanboy.com/spotlight/raysteckler.html
Posted by: Fatherflot | March 06, 2007 at 02:25 PM
wow, thanks for that Fatherflot
what a story
Posted by: BenjamenWalker | March 06, 2007 at 03:09 PM
Edits:
Should be "Haydock" not "Haycock." Is my Freudian slip showing?
Also, that final quote should read: "Wandering lost down an exit ramp. . ."
Posted by: Fatherflot | March 06, 2007 at 03:16 PM
"Rape is so goldarn funny, ain't it?"
Yeah, well, that's the first thing that comes to mind upon reading this post.
The second thing, after reading the comments: How did Fatherflot manage to misspell Ron Haydock's name twice while quoting the correct spelling twice?
Posted by: Listener Simon | March 06, 2007 at 04:34 PM
Just can't get enough cock, I guess.
Posted by: Fatherflot | March 06, 2007 at 04:51 PM
Louis C.K. agrees: It's wrong to rape a chimp.
Posted by: \_escarpment | March 06, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Gee that's a bright shiny future for capitalism.
Attempting to rape an anthropoid ape is only going to result in much but a trip to the hospital or morgue, with the possible exception of the gibbon. (Kidding, the gibbon is the smallest of the great apes but could probably clean house with the best of them.)
The sad thing is the sheer number of people that believe HIV is the result of sex with primates. Have these people ever been to a zoo?
Posted by: bartelby | March 06, 2007 at 10:40 PM
According to Idiocracy, TV gets even dumber than this by 2500, when the top TV show is 'OW, My Balls!'.
Posted by: dgaicun | March 07, 2007 at 03:28 AM
Armando Iannucci, one of the major talents behind the Alan Partridge shows, has another fantastic (and recent) series worth combing the internets for: "The Thick of It", which has an American version currently in production, with Mitchell Hurwitz of "Arrested Development" being the head honcho on that. Some wags think it's poised to be the next "The Office".
Posted by: Brad Wesley | March 08, 2007 at 09:42 AM
His radio shows were better. The radio shows, they're always better.
Posted by: Niall Munnelly | March 08, 2007 at 10:19 PM
'Some wags think it's poised to be the next "The Office".'
The Thick of It pisses all over 'The Office'.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HGf3iMJawAA
Posted by: Matt | March 09, 2007 at 08:28 PM