Is Today's Comedy Sensor Perceiver Humor ?

Is Today's Comedy ESP Humor ?

by

Erica Crooks ( INFP )

The more I study MBTI Myers Briggs Personality Type Typology Science ,

the more and more I’m aware that YES ANYTHING CAN BE TYPED .

In fact back in 2007 , I started typing fictional Hollywood crushes I had as well as screwball cartoon characters back when I was a senior in High School.

Now , I think I’ve mentioned this in my blog posts as well as my videos talking about MBTI Myers Briggs Personality Types and sense of humor.

And of course there’s tons of wonderful articles on the internet about MBTI already.

But what I find interesting is the relation between the capitalist hierarchical industries such as the Entertainment industry and if they use the MBTI for their demographic target audience and market research.

It’s almost deliberate if you think about it.

Perhaps stereotypes not right off the bat or they market towards stereotypes.

I’m going to start this blog post by saying that my personality type is INFP and in no means is this an intuitives are smarter than sensors intuitive bias sort of thing. However I do believe that to be true in the sense of our different way of thinking while sensors are more better at focusing on the here and now details and sort of thing which can come in handy.

I for one don’t put sensors down , but if you want my honest opinion , SFPs are THE ONLY sensors I can really get along with most. 

SFJ is my Mother and ST / STJ is my ex-father and let’s just say I had bad experiences with and I’ll just leave it at that.

Anyway , a sense of humor can relate usually by personality types that can relate to it.

Perhaps I should go into detail and analysis on how there’s certain types of humor relating to cognitive functions which certain intuitive and sensors share.

As I mentioned in several blog videos on youtube.com/user/officialericcrooks/videos

I would relate most to Ne humor and perhaps some Ni humor as well.

If you need an example of what I find funny , just check out my videos but perhaps you might agree to what I just said.

I have a friend who I strongly think is ISFP . I’m 80% sure of that. I’m constantly studying him in my mind for my own skill in personality type typing. Perhaps it's better than annoying the hell out of him to get him to take a 16 personality type test. But as I mentioned in other blog posts previously , there’s people who answer the question wrong and perhaps an ESTP can result to an INFP or something like that. I even make a comic about that. lol

Anyway my ISFP friend and I love watching slapstick cartoons.

But the reason that I think he’s an ISFP sensor is because he knows it’s just entertainment and a fun activity while me being an INFP intuitive , I want to learn about the artists and I want to go out and make my own. Then again my friend is similar to that when it comes to certain bands and knowing the detail but not so serious about being a musician. So I don’t know. 

The point I want to make is say he sees something that’s ESFP or ESTP humor , most likely than not he’s going to be totally open and rant about how much that freakin’ SUCKED !

Again I might be wrong about him being an ISFP , but I’m just gong to say he’s ISFP for now.

But what I find interesting is , is there a separation between introverted humor and extroverted humor ?

So why do I think mainstream modern current Comedy Entertainment is ESFP and ESTP targeted ?

Here’s my opinions for now.

( 1. Extrovert and Se : Observational Humor .

It can be an observation of an action after they realize they did it.

I can say the difference of say an Extroverted Ne humor would be that dialog of being aware of the observation would be creative and imaginative while Extroverted / Se would be more grounded to Earth.

( 2. Feeling vs Thinking

ESFP I think is the lead of most family cgi cartoon movies and perhaps Ellen Degenerious .

It’s friendly , it’s observational , and with the perceiving aspect of say an ESFP / ISFP personality type , very laid back and doesn’t mind the structurelessness of their life. 

And as a Feeler Perceiver myself , again I can totally be friendly with that kind of personality type.

ESTP humor I personally don’t find funny.

What I would consider to be ESTP is probably on the lines of say

“ The Happytime Murders “ / Family Guy / Most Late Night Comedy and Current Rated R Comedy movies now a days ? 

Shock Value , anti-politically correct , yet grounded to earth.

Now ENTP humor as I mentioned I strongly feel due to the iNtuition to be more “ Imaginative “ and “ Creative “. Yet very satirical. British Comedy like Hale and Pace , Monty Python’s Flying Circus and The Young Ones

I would say are related to not only ENTP but iNtuitives.

My ISFP friend can like the comedy sketches with structure such as The Dead Parrot Pet Shop Sketch or perhaps The Cheese Shop sketch. And perhaps the slapstick of the Terry Gillian cut out animations ( which influenced Trey Parker and Matt Stone to go out and create South Park ) . However my friend might find the other stuff weird and not that funny perhaps like the Flying Sheep sketches or how Pigs got randomly killed in one of the earlier episodes.

But then again , I don’t know if he’s an ISFP or what.

So that's kind of my analysis on that.

Sensors are the majority so it kind of makes sense because

hierarchy capitalist mainstream entertainment says it's all things for everyone however ,

if they are aiming towards the majority ,

who’s to say they aren’t aiming at SP types while 

The government is ran by thinking judgers .

Ok Trump is an ESTP right ?

One other thing , I consider STJ humor to be like “ Hee Haw “

while Cute cat videos , Impractical Jokesters and perhaps burp pranks in public to be maybe ESFJ humor ( that’s my observation of my mother ). 

Anyway , my typing could be off , I don’t know.

But that’s just my observation for now.

_ Erica

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Art vs Business : Not All Artists Are Created Equal

Art vs Business : Not All Artists Are Created Equal

( Image from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uI_WDsqAG8 The Erica Crooks Show 2017 Season : Happy Mascot Man sketch )

Even before I became the anti-capitalist libertarian socialist Anarchist I am today , just the idea of selling off art like a Pimp does with a prostitute is something that always made me cringe to the soul . 

The reason I didn’t think money was the root of all evil is probably because of just living in a society where there are in fact good people who happen to make a living doing what they love doing probably because it was the work they admired , not the money.

Jim Henson is a great example of that. He was an artist first and foremost , and really the only reason why he had a company in the first place was so he could earn and raise enough money to do the art he always dreamed of.

There’s even a book about that “ Make Money , Make Art .” 

Sure Jim was able to enjoy luxuries but here’s the thing , he treated his employees like friends because THEY WERE HIS FRIENDS ! That was his second family. Jim Henson and The Muppet Group were a team. Just because Jim was the boss , didn’t mean he was like a boss.

I strongly recommend the Brian Jay Jones book “ Jim Henson : The Biography “ which my opinion is still strong as it was when the book came out , the #1 Jim Henson documentary EVER !

But there’s a big difference between The Muppets of the 1970s vs The Muppets of the 1980s . In fact , LOTS OF MAJOR DIFFERENCES . But business can totally be an indicator.

In the 1970s , The Muppets had their worldwide success staring on Sesame Street as most already know even 50 years later. And of course Jim’s dream Muppet Project which was a HUGE STRUGGLE to get perhaps THE FIRST ADULT PUPPET SHOW ON MAINSTREAM TELEVISION “ The Muppet Show “ .

The 1980s was different because The Muppet Show ended , Sesame Street was still running. Jim created Fraggle Rock , he was doing his dream film projects The Dark Crystal , Labyrinth , The Storyteller but they weren't successes like The Muppets. Muppets Take Manhattan didn’t do so well at the box office. So the company was starting to sell out with Muppet Babies , Jim Henson’s Play a Long Video , Little Muppet Monsters , Elmo was slowly becoming a major character ( but more so in the 1990s aka Tickle Me Elmo etc ) . The Jim Henson Hour wasn't a success . 

Jim was going to sell to Disney. DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN ? DO YOU SEE THE STRUGGLE ?

And also remember when I just said that The Muppet Show was for ADULTS ! The Muppets have always been for the most part for everyone , but most importantly reaching to the inner child aspect of adults. The saddest thing about the 1980s I think was just like what was happening with Looney Tunes , The Flintstones , the early attempts of non-human fictional art for adults were started to be marketing towards CHILDREN ! As this Kids thing. There was even this Traffic Safety thing with The Muppet Show Muppets. 

There’s a big difference between The Walt Disney Company putting The Muppets on Disney Jr ( not the revival of Muppet Babies which was sort of recent , but the actual Muppets )

and what was happening at Jim Henson Productions during Jim Henson’s final years living on Earth. Jim was struggling , Disney doesn't care. Speaking of Looney Tunes , did you know that Chuck Jones thought Space Jam was a stupid idea ? He was going to direct the next Looney Tunes movie I think. Frank Oz was going to direct the next Muppet movie which could have been the lost script written by Jim Henson , Jerry Juhl and Frank Oz “ The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever . “ And it was something which was going back to the original 1970s Muppet Magic. Gonzo directs a movie and messes it all up. lol :P Hilarious. But guess what we got instead , Muppets Most Wanted ! And you want to know why Muppets From Space was only 50% good ? Jerry Juhl’s script was butchered because there was all these addictional Hollywood Gimics through out from Alien Gonzos , Sam the Eagle dancing with girls on the beach , to cheap Toilet and Karate chop to the balls gags. It’s like Star Wars fans doing fan edits , someone could do a fan edit of Muppets From Space taking all that garbage out , and Muppets From Space would have been seen more so as Jerry Juhl’s last work.

Ok so my work has cheap low brow humor too. But as I stated previously regarding The Happytime Murders , when it isn’t creative enough , it’s crap. So in a way Muppets From Space’s cheap gags are slightly funny but DOES IT REALLY WORK WITH THESE CHARACTERS ? Ok , Animal and the toilet scene sort of. But DOES IT WORK WITH THE STORY ? NO !

Anyway back to Jim Henson and The Disney Deal.

The books “ Jim Henson : The Biography " and “ Street Gang " and even “ Make Money , Make Art “ showed that Jim Henson was struggling with Disney during the end of his life. They Disney people were heartless and this was the sort of thing Jim Henson did not take likely.

By the way , for those who don't already know this , Jim Henson’s MBTI personality type is INFP . It’s right there in the Brian Jay Jones book . Jim Henson DID take the Myers Briggs Personality Type and it said he was “ The Idealist “ ( aka INFP ) .

As an INFP myself , I can definitely relate to all that. 

And that’s the thing about capitalism , it’s not only deadly and toxic to everyone , it is especially to artists.

But unfortunately there’s artists out there who only do it for the money. It makes you question about John Kricfalusi , George Lucas and Matt Groening ( separated from birth ? lol  I couldn't resist . ) now a days. 

In Henson’s Place ( 1986 ) when mentioning the short lived Muppet Store ( which I wish existed in the 1990s outside Walt Disney World which was the last existing one in my childhood years ) , Jim Henson mentioned that on one hand it was serving the needs of the audience if someone wanted a Fozzie Bear or Wembley Fraggle in their home or on their clothes , then there’s the other side where it helps bring money back into projects. “ Puppeteers need to be well paid and our projects are very expensive , but we are living in the real world here. It would be nice if that weren't the case however. “

Frank Oz finished Muppet Vision 3D for Jim Henson after his passing and he didn't want Disney to pay him which is understandable . Jim passed away and Frank wanted to finish this film for Jim. Frank Oz mentioned this story at the Star Wars Weekend at Walt Disney World a few years back. Eisner and Katzenberg didn’t understand. So Frank Oz said just to get these guys off his back “ Fine , you want to pay me , how about some new socks. “ So they gave him a huge back of Mickey Mouse socks. Sure this may seem funny , innocent , and silly but again read the books , Eisner and Katzenberg WERE FUCKING PRICKS ! Pardon my language but I strongly feel it was needed. If you read the books , especially the Brian Jay Jones “ Jim Henson : The Biography “ book , just look at how pissed off they made Jim Henson. 

It would be controversial of me to come up with a conspiracy theory but if you read the books and come to the realization that perhaps all of this stressed out Jim Henson inwardly so much , that he passed away on the week he was going to sign everything off to Disney , it makes you think. Most Muppet Fans I think don’t even talk about this. 

And if there’s something I hope people realize is that sometimes you got to separate the artists from the business a little bit. Not every cartoonist ended up like John Kricfalusi.

Seriously , read Joe Murray’s ( Rocko’s Modern Life ) Creating Animated Cartoons with Character . Also Joe is an environmentalist ! 

All of this reminds me of that guy I was on the phone with looking for a college internship at some sort of film production studio since that’s what my father forced me to go because he didn’t like the idea of me going to some Fine Arts college. This jerk on the phone said to me “ Listen Kid , It’s not about art , it’s all about making money ! “ 

And if you heard that repeated a lot on The Erica Crooks Show since 2008 , know you know.

Even in college I was very rebellious about art and business . In filmmaking class I must have kept pissing my teacher off with my satirical short films like “ Today’s Hollywood “ and “ Everybody Hates You ( a parody of the 1980s song Everybody Wants You ) “ and all were ANTI-CAPITALIST and a big satirical middle finger at the mainstream Hollywood entertainment industry , but with puppets. lol My father was pissed off afraid that I was going to get thrown out of college for my shenanigans . Whatever that bully is out of my life ! 

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But like I was mentioning , not all artists are equal. There could be puppeteers to have claimed to work with Jim Henson but as a background puppeteer. If fans don’t know who they are , maybe there’s a reason. There’s one which was a guest at my Muppet Show fan panel at a local Comic Con that I did who was trying to take the spotlight for himself. I told him that the reason why he was there in the first place was the people at that comic con said he wanted to join in. And I said ok to it because he claimed to work for Jim Henson himself . Which was great because that is who the panel WAS FOR ! The panel was NOT FOR ME , The panel was NOT FOR HIM , it was for Jim Henson and the original Muppet Team as well as a spit at Disney for barely doing anything for The Muppet Show’s 40th Anniversary other then the Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Concert . WHERE’S SEASONS 4 AND 5 ON DVD AND ITUNES ? I’ve BEEN WAITING 10 YEARS DAMN IT ! ( again pardon the language ) .

This guy had something at his comic con table which perhaps DID NOT BELONG TO HIM.

I let a very good puppeteer friend of mine know. And perhaps I shouldn’t say anything further. But we both agreed , this guy was SCUM !

In my lifetime , I have came across people who may have had the artistic skills and talent but there was something they cared about more than the creative freedom of artistic expression . MONEY !

And of course , I’m not going to bitch and nag at every artist earning things. Hell , when I had my film screenings in 2015 and 2017 , I actually wanted the film screenings to be for free.

When I had an artist table at RI Comic Con in 2015 , I was willing to give autographed drawings for free. But no one showed up. It’s a good thing I had a looping 6 hour video of my videos on one small HD TV with a broken stand on one side and a small flat screen computer monitor with web comics in an automatic slideshow sort of thing on the other. Sure I paid the extra hundred and so for the electricity , but IT’S A REALLY COOL IDEA if you think about it. Plus a free VIP pass if you do panels ( or the table but the panels don’t cost anything but anything can change. )  . Unfortunately as I stated in a previous post about an idea for a NEW COMIC CON , it just relates to everything I’m saying. Capitalist kills art.

And again , I’m not going to bitch and nag at anyone who’s trying to earn a living with what they do. But what I’m trying to say is this. You can tell if someone is passionate about their work vs just doing it for money !

If we were all living in a libertarian socialist Anarchist society / 5D Earth , then it’s going to be just like the curtain being pulled revealing THE WIZARD OF OZ for who is really and truly is ! 

The true artists will stand out , and those wannabes and hasbeens who don’t care as much as the fans do will step aside.

I wonder which side Steve Whitmire is on ? That’s still a mystery and another thing I don’t think Muppet fans will talk about. And perhaps I already said something about that in my “ Transgender Artists “ video blog when I found out that Steve Whitmire was making a cheap Transgender joke with a random stuffed frog saying he wasn’t Kermit. It’s 2018 PEOPLE , NOT the 1970s when people didn’t have the internet and were aware about stuff like they are now thanks to the internet ! SAVE THE INTERNET / NET NEUTRALITY / IMPEACH THE REPUBLICANS ! 

Anyway I hope people can see a little bit regarding artists.

Perhaps this in the art / entertainment world separates the Workers from the Capitalists !

_ Erica

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The Erica Crooks Show Halloween 2018 ( a 1 Minute Halloween Satire / Parody Comedy Halloween Special Show Thing )

The Erica Crooks Show Halloween 2018 ( a 1 Minute Halloween Satire / Parody Comedy Halloween Special Show Thing )

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" For those who remember , I've done two Halloween Shows in 2006 and 2007. I'm a fan of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror specials so that probably inspired me to do a similar tradition. Special episodes like that tend to be very tough for me , same with plot shows which is probably why I either abandon such projects or I start one and have a hard time finishing it for whatever reason and just shorten it.

There was this short under 10 minute Halloween cartoon around 2010 / 2011 that was never seen except a few friends privately at a home halloween party ( if I want to call it that lol ) ,  I did but it got trapped in a dead hard drive which I don't know if I still have or I deleted it by mistake thinking it was just a draft.

I did have plans for a Halloween Special in 2015 which ended up being sort of a disaster because I was filming the making of the special at the same time and trying to beat the clock last minute a month or two ahead of time , just me doing it as usual. And footage was filmed and a sound track was recorded but I just ran out of time. lol The footage unfortunately got on the same files and stuff with the making footage and the audio I found recently so maybe eventually I do something with that on a later date . All I ended up editing I uploaded awhile back and they weren't even Halloween themed sketches. It was a Newscaster cold opening , a Westboro Baptist Church satire and Con & Spy Rotten going to the Time Out Room.

This time was similar to the 2015 show where I was trying to push myself to do a full legnth thing but ended up running out of time. A longer soundtrack was recorded which I'll probably do something with at later times. And I just didn't have time to compose music or sound effects . Plus I've been having some major technical difficulties with my computer so perhaps it's time to save for a new one. lol

So I decided to just take the remaining footage and turn it into this one minute thing , which is mixed with Halloween themed stuff / parodies / satires / pop culture topical gags / Which is clearly inspired by the tombstone gags from the early Classic Simpsons Treehouse of Horror specials. lol But my own spin on it I suppose.

It is what it is so ether way , Happy Happy Halloween ! :) _ Erica

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Is Adult Puppetry Not As Popular as Adult Cartoon Animation ?

Is Adult Puppetry Not As Popular as Adult Cartoon Animation ?

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Erica Crooks

When it comes to puppetry , cartooning , animation , filmmaking and the arts , a lot can be said.

These are different kinds of art and media technics and like music , there's different genres and styles.

In the days before mainstream television puppetry and cartoons were mainly for adults and would express satire / social commentary . It's not very common today because no matter how hard puppeteers and cartoonists try , it really does seem to be marketed towards children's entertainment . I think this was due to the television era . Because before television , most movies if not all were basically G / PG rated but without the rating system. So yeah there was kids going to watch a Looney Tunes cartoon short during the double feature and or matinee and then there was probably a newsreel and then a James Cagney / Humphrey Bogart Gangster film . Some would criticize animated cartoons as being kids stuff but generally they weren't categorized as such like an old video rental store or even a DVD store would just shove something animated as kids stuff. Perhaps it was due to modern times when shows went beyond Classic Simpsons and Beavis & Butt-head which is South Park and Family Guy ( Sorry , I'm on the South Park side. I just couldn't get into Family Guy all that much. It's not like The Critic , Clerks Animated and Mission Hill in my opinion. )  And of course [ adult swim ] , MTV Animation from the 1990s , Nickelodeon in the 1990s and early 2000s Cartoon Network. And of course there's Anime which gain huge fanbases globally . However it really does seem that puppets never had the same edge as cartoon animation has. No matter how cartoony you can make a puppet ! It's probably because a puppet no matter how advanced and animated and cartoony as they can look , they don't seem to be treated as equal to cartoon animated comedy. Also CGI seems to already be replacing animatric puppets in fantasy films , sci-fi and even horror movies . So are puppets really that not popular ? It's interesting because Spitting Image I think was the next influential puppet troupe since The Muppets. However America never seemed to be that savage when it comes to knocking the piss out of their country. It's like comparing Team America to Meet The Feebles , Greg The Bunny to Puppets Who Kill , Spitting Image and Les Guignols De L'info vs DC Follies and The Happytime Murders . Still there was the heyday of Mad Magazine , Matt Groening's Life in Hell Robert Crumb and Underground comics , Love & Rockets and Tank Girl in the comics / graphic novel world . Though as I mentioned in my previous blog post talking about Modern Satire , when it comes to satirical puppetry in America , I would say that Dinosaurs was the best in that comparison . 

Like how The Flintstones was the very first adult animated cartoon on television , The Muppet Show was the first that was seen in over 100 countries . And the thing about Jim Henson and The Muppets was the best things that was ever made was done in independent syndication . Sesame Street gained popularity on PBS , NOT HBO at the time . And when HBO was still small , Fraggle Rock was on there as well as VHS tapes and books . The Muppet Show was filmed in England and syndicated on any independent time shots that were available . That was how it was done. Disney was not in the picture. Yet . So it’s interesting because it really seems like adult cartoon animation made a slow evolution into the mainstream eventually but adult puppet shows not so much. And just look how dumb down The Happytime Murders was . But regardless , there’s one thing to point out here. Barely anyone can say now a days that cartoons , animated cartoons , video games and comic books is kids stuff anymore . Unfortunately people don’t seem to thing the same way for puppets. Which is quite sad. 

Sure there’s people on the internet doing their own adult puppet show on youtube ( me included http://www.youtube.com/user/officialericcrooks/videos ) but still there seems to always be this association with puppets and kids. Again , is it just simply because someone could believe a cartoon character as being a caricature symbol of people while puppets just look like stuffed animals , dolls , toys ? I remember when I had a table at a local comic con , I had a looping 6 hour dvd ( which was muted in silence , family show at comic con you know. ) and try to edit out anything too extreme visually . And the thing I noticed was the only ones who were most interested in seeing these puppets on the mini flatscreen television on the artist table at comic con was kids . And I was kind of cringing because as an adult puppeteer who does adult puppeteering for adult puppetry things , you kind of want to escape that. It’s like Dr LeBrick suffering in Hell in the 2nd Erica Crooks Show Halloween Special ( 2007 ) , Dr. LeBrick is behind this puppet show stage being forced to do a puppet show for little kids . It was something I always fought against as an artist . That’s the thing about art vs business , which one do you care about more. Not all artists are created equal , some do things just for money so they don’t care just as long as their talent is raking in the income , there’s artists that don't mind entertaining children , I always seemed to be addicted to adult cartoon animation and adult puppetry at a young age and I strongly feel that when I aim things at adults then I can have the most creative freedom to say and do whatever I want. But who knows , maybe the world won’t be as careful of what they allow kids to watch I don't know . lol Speaking of which my work tends to be high brow on the satirical and dark humor aspects and then it can be totally low brow with extreme toilet humor , random swearing , slapstick , and all around goofy silliness gone out of control. But at least as an independent filmmaker , I have the freedom to do the art that I love doing. Even thought the budgets are insane at times , and the hard work can be tiresome. It’s all worth it . :) _ Erica

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The Erica Crooks Show : Halloween Moments ( 2006 - 2017 )

The Erica Crooks Show Halloween Moments ( 2006 - 2017 )

Adult Puppet & Animated Cartoon Comedy for adults “ The Erica Crooks Show “
presents 10 years of Dark Comedy , Satire , parodies , and just plain silly stupidity .
We pick our personal Halloween themed ( for adults ) comedy sketches from
10 years of The Erica Crooks Show and combine them in this hilarious zany humor compilation.
Over an Hour of the The Funniest , Spookiest , Creepiest , the satirical dark comedy sketches
that are Halloween themed or related in some way to the commercialized holiday.

BONUS :
INCLUDES : The first two Halloween Specials from 2006 and 2007 of The Erica Crooks Show !

Adult Halloween Comedy so funny that it’s forbidden on mainstream media MORE SO !

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