Why devote ninety or so minutes to his life story and works via Channel Zero?
Well...lets face it, love or hate his late-in-life wingnuttery, the man was funny.
Seriously taken as a whole L'il Abner is satiric cataract, hit or miss the gags, caricatures and parodies just fell from the heavens like the very biblical deluge over a twenty five year run, volume alone and dedications that entails recommends the whole enterprise.
Yes Al Capp cheap shot numberless targets big and small...and had a notoriously cringeworthy confrontation with John Lennon and that whole thing with Joan Baez, Yikes! But we here at Channel Zero have always been servants of The Funny...and sometimes that hurts almost always you make enemies.
Besides at the height of the anti comic book hysteria of the 1950's Capp made an impassioned attack on censorship by having the semi illiterate backwoodsman L'il Abner confess a fondness for the masterworks of Edgar Allen Poe!
I mean, that alone deserves a Mark Twain American Humor Award, if they gave them out back in 1953....
Therefore Channel Zero will be screening "This is Al Capp" a classic 1970 television new documentary detailing Capp's shift from liberal to conservative from satirist to right wing provocateur with commentary from William F. Buckley, Paul Krassner and Milton Caniff among others. One of the things that made this period in Al Capp's life so very interesting, he was literally calling antiwar activists, hippies and liberals every epithet in the book and made good money at it, he was clearing mad phat money on campus from speaking fees! Literally, he was the first true "controvore", one who generates good revenue from eructating outlandishly belligerent opinions.
As far as I am concerned, Howie Carr, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck all stole their act from Al Capp.
Join us for:
"This is Al Capp" (1970)
The Somerville Theatre (micro cinema)
Wednesday May 14th
8pm (sharp!)
Admission $5 (cheap!)
(617) 625-5700
Plus a surprise or two, you'll have to come to the show and see exactly what constitutes a surprise from Channel Zero...
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Thursday, May 08, 2014
Why Al Capp?
Why devote ninety or so minutes to his life story and works via Channel Zero?
Well...lets face it, love or hate his late-in-life wingnuttery, the man was funny.
Seriously taken as a whole L'il Abner is satiric cataract, hit or miss the gags, caricatures and parodies just fell from the heavens like the very biblical deluge over a twenty five year run, volume alone and dedications that entails recommends the whole enterprise.
Yes Al Capp cheap shot numberless targets big and small...and had a notoriously cringeworthy confrontation with John Lennon and that whole thing with Joan Baez, Yikes! But we here at Channel Zero have always been servants of The Funny...and sometimes that hurts almost always you make enemies.
Besides at the height of the anti comic book hysteria of the 1950's Capp made an impassioned attack on censorship by having the semi illiterate backwoodsman L'il Abner confess a fondness for the masterworks of Edgar Allen Poe!
I mean, that alone deserves a Mark Twain American Humor Award, if they gave them out back in 1953....
Therefore Channel Zero will be screening "This is Al Capp" a classic 1970 television new documentary detailing Capp's shift from liberal to conservative from satirist to right wing provocateur with commentary from William F. Buckley, Paul Krassner and Milton Caniff among others. One of the things that made this period in Al Capp's life so very interesting, he was literally calling antiwar activists, hippies and liberals every epithet in the book and made good money at it, he was clearing mad phat money on campus from speaking fees! Literally, he was the first true "controvore", one who generates good revenue from eructating outlandishly belligerent opinions.
As far as I am concerned, Howie Carr, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck all stole their act from Al Capp.
Join us for:
"This is Al Capp" (1970)
The Somerville Theatre (micro cinema)
Wednesday May 14th
8pm (sharp!)
Admission $5 (cheap!)
(617) 625-5700
Plus a surprise or two, you'll have to come to the show and see exactly what constitutes a surprise from Channel Zero...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Channel Zero Returns Wednesday May 14th !
In the 1960's, Al Capp, the famed creator of the "L'il Abner" comic strip had a whole second career as a conservative firebrand and a provocateur from the right. Back at the Height of the Viet Nam War, long before Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity, Al Capp toured the campuses of America trashing liberals, anti-war protesters & hippies and made good money out of it!
A rare television news documentary detailing Al Capp's confrontational politics & featuring commentary from William F. Buckley, Milton Caniff ,Trina Robbins & Paul Krassner.
The Somerville Theatre
(Micro-Cinema)
55 Davis Square
Somerville Ma.
Wednesday May 14th
8pm (sharp!)
Admission $5.00 (cheap!)
With a few "extra surprises" on tap as well...
Please Note, Channel Zero is experimenting with a different screening night this time, Wednesday May 14th, after twenty years in the business and nearly fifty shows, we are entitled to change things up now and again.
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