A Bad Situationist

[nathansmart]

http://www.abadsituationist.com/

Angered by the 2000 Presidential election, Arthur, the unemployed son of Senator Joe Lieberman, is installed in a NYC apartment, with the hopes that he will "lay low." Striving to be relevant, Arthur starts an intellectual salon based on what he reads on the back cover of books written by the Situationist International. Soon he is encouraged to commit violent acts by radical orthodox Jewish postal workers, a former stereo salesman and some Charlie Rose interns.

The film has become, in the words of the Situationist International "A history of the immediate future."

THE CAST

SARAH SILVERMAN
Greg The Bunny, Seinfeld, The David Letterman Show, HeartBreakers, There's Something About Mary, Who¹s the Caboose?

DAVID CROSS
HBO's Mr. Show, Just Shoot Me, Men in Black, Scary Movie II, The Drew Carey Show, Men In Black II, Who¹s the Caboose?

JANEANE GAROFALO
The Larry Sanders Show, The David Letterman Show, The Sopranos, Mystery Men

H. JON BENJAMIN
Dr. Katz, professional therapist, Sex in the City, Next Stop Wonderland, Late night w/ Conan O'brien, Who¹s the Caboose?

ROSS BROCKLEY
Holiday Inn Commercial Star, Carpula, Stuck Truck Late Night with Conan O'brien

ROBERT SCHIMMEL
The Howard Stern Show, Late Night with Conan O¹brien, his own HBO Specials

MARC MARON
Almost Famous, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Late Friday, Jerusalem Syndrome, The David Letterman Show

SAM SEDER
Who¹s the Caboose?, Sex and the City, Happy Accidents, Next Stop Wonderland, The Show, Stuck Truck

[eponymous]

Hmm, this can't end well. One thing you do NOT want to do is piss off the Situationist International. The Situationists make that Scientology bunch look like a student film filled with student lawyers throwing student pipe bombs. The Situationists will slice you and dice you and put a corpse in your mouth. They will take your most cherished cartoons and assign political slogans to them. They will appropriate old westerns and kung fu movies, and make the characters speak anachronistic Maoist propaganda relating to the minutiae of French politics circa 1960 that nobody outside of two professors at the Sorbonne understands. Is that what you want, guy? I think not, so burn this film, NOW!

Oh, and be realistic, demand the impossible. That is all.

[Teaflax]

Angered by the 2000 Presidential election, Arthur, the unemployed son of Senator Joe Lieberman, is installed in a NYC apartment, with the hopes that he will "lay low." Striving to be relevant, Arthur starts an intellectual salon based on what he reads on the back cover of books written by the Situationist International.

Damn. Up until that point, I almost thought this was a description of something real.

[smartbunny]

More Maron is always a good thing. All the Maron you can handle.

[kyrialydia]

I actually saw this a while before it was released, because my boyfriend edited it. Sadly, it had just been sitting alone and unwatched on his external hard drive.

David Cross, Jon Benjamin, and Ross Brockley were my personal favorites. Marc Maron is great. I'm not sure if the outtakes made it to the DVD, but I also got to see about 45 awesome minutes of David Cross riffing about masturbating.

It's definitely something to check out, if just for the sheer amount of comedy talent in one place.

Mainly, I'd like recommend it on this major point:

Famous standup in blackface.