The Tragedy of Left Shark
This is going to be one of those comics I go back to in a year and wonder “what the hell was this mocking?”
I feel bad for Left Shark. Gets caught by social media dancing poorly during the halftime show and instant meme status. Now Left Shark is getting ironic love from everyone all because he was a bad dancer. Some weirdo even got a tattoo. But what about the poor shark himself? How does the guy inside that suit feel right now? “Hi honey, just got back from work, rough day, the entire world started mocking me for my skills. Also I dressed up as a shark to background dance with a 30 year old pop star who makes songs for teenagers, this is my life now”
I didn’t see the Halftime show. I haven’t watched one since the corpses of The Who got up on stage and depressed everyone with how old they were. Halftime shows aren’t enjoyable to me anymore, it’s just crazy spectacle with random guest stars being thrown at you left and right and when something is so ridiculous it kind of stops being ridiculous and starts blending together into noise. It’s so choreographed and staged anyway that it doesn’t have the magic improvisational aspect of a real concert. I throw the football with friends during halftime now.
When I came back in to find Left Shark had taken over the world I was just sort of confused. Within the day Left Shark was already overplayed. Left Shark had already jumped itself. We killed Left Shark. Left Shark is dead. Long live Left Shark.
“Dang kids, get off my interwebs!” – Old Man Dave, probably
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Your girlfriend’s a hockey fan, isn’t she? You should show her the new San Jose Sharks uniform: http://i.imgur.com/G1zKV8G.png
Oh my God, ordering 16.
Is it wrong that I’d legit buy one of those?
(snickering ensues)
Absolutely not. I want them in bulk.
Nope already bought
Last years halftime show was the first time i enjoyed it in a while.
That being said, the sheer ridiculousness of this halftime show was pretty entertaining. It was like an acid trip. Katy Perry comes out riding a robot version of mu-shu-fasa from Kung Pow, there are beach balls and trees and sharks with faces smiling and dancing around, Missy Elliot comes out and katy perry makes me cringe into another dimension with her wardrobe change, and it ends with her literally becoming the more you know star, while only being able to remind me of The Interview.
I chuckled.
Bruno is a great performer hands down but the ridiculousness of this one makes last year’s pretty forgettable compared to this one.
-sobbing- I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU’RE SINGING!
Dave Skylark: You know exactly what I’m singing…
I thought it was Ok. A couple years ago the Beyonce halftime show fucking blew me away. That woman can put on a show. That will be my favorite for a long time. Ever since the infamous wardrobe malfunction the shows have been pretty tame.
If we should feel bad for anyone, it should be the Right Shark. Everyone loves the Left Shark. He is a free spirit. The Right Shark was upstaged hard.
I thought the Bruno Mars/Red Hot Chili Peppers show was really good.
Agreed. My favorite since the world was made witness to Janet Jackson’s blurry boob.
I was pretty upset the RHCPs faked their bit. It was done in such a way that it was obvious, which takes some of the sting out of it, but still.
Thing is though, the league mandates that all half time shows are pre-recorded, for a number of reasons. Big one is that with such a small time to get set up, there’s no chance of doing a proper soundcheck etc before the show (I mean, you CAN do one before the game but nobody does a show where they do a soundcheck and then dismantle everything before the actual gig…) so they can’t guarantee a good sound.
Another big reason is, of course, to prevent another Janet Jackson moment.
The whole pre-recorded thing is pretty much why we’ll only really get modern pop acts on now. A lot of bands will say no to the whole thing. And tbh, as much as I loved them early on, RHCP are pretty much just a pop band now.
It turns out Left Shark did it right all along.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/62183-katy-perrys-left-shark-did-the-super-bowl-routine-correctly-making-this-situation-even-more-hilarious
Jokes over guys, pack it up.
Prince was the best halftime ever. Just straight shredding on the guitar and improvised all through the rain. Only extra was the sparks from his ax.
The fucking beach balls with faces were so much better than the damn shark
Bruce Springsteen was the last halftime show I genuinely enjoyed. The rest since have been meh at best, except maybe Bruno Mars, my cable went out during most of his show, and I don’t care enough about his music to dig it up, so his may have been good. The rest though have been just bleh.
oof