June is usually the time when television series are airing their season finales by wrapping up lose ends or coming up with a cliffhanger ending that will leave you waiting till the fall to find out what happened. June can also signal the cancellation of many television programs. The movie ‘Scary Movie’ helped to elaborate this point with one of their quotes from the film for this month. Scary movie was a comedic film released in 2000 that exploited previous horror movie cliches and borrowed heavily from the slasher film ‘Scream’ in order to provide jokes for the audience. The plot revolves around Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) and a bunch of her friends who accidentally hit a man with their car and decide to throw his body into a lake. A masked killer then decides to kill each friend one by one with hilarious consequences. The friends try to find out who the killer is but are oblivious to the fact that the killer may actually be one of the members of the group who is secretly trying to eliminate the rest of the group. The movie has spawned 3 sequels with actress Anna Faris starring in all 4 movies and countless other comedic spoof films since then. In this month’s quote, actor Shawn Wayans’s character Ray responds to critics who think television shows are too violent by telling us the truth about what in actuality really does make people violent…

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Jon Bon Jovi is a writer, musician and actor best known as being the founder of the rock band ‘Bon Jovi’. His two albums and eleven studio albums have sold over 120 million copies world wide. Jon was also part owner with fellow Bon Jovi member Richie Sambora in the professional arena football franchise ‘The Philadelphia Soul’. The league has since suspended activities due to the economical crisis and is on the verge of bankruptcy. He grew up in New Jersey and played in many local bands around the area. His big break came when a radio station in Manhattan agreed to play his song ‘Runaway’ after many record labels turned him down. The song captured the attention of Mercury Records who would sign him to a recording contract. Jon then recruited the help of several other band mates and the band ‘Bon Jovi’ was created after one of his band mates suggested the band title to him. The band’s debut album ‘Bon Jovi’ would go Gold in the USA and shortly after they would release ‘Slippery when Wet’ which was a huge commercial success selling over 28 million copies. The band has been credited with constantly reinventing themselves and changing their style of rock in order to better adapt to the marketplace. This reinvention of the band was noticed best in the early 90s when the band changed their style from metal to rock n’ roll and managed to stay afloat during a time when grudge music was very prevalent in the music scene. Jon also provides us with a great quote for this month on the music industry and how mediocre it’s been since the band decided to take a five year hiatus from making music and then came back…

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Alan Moore is an English comic book writer who’s best known for writing the comic book series ‘The Watchmen’ , ‘V for Vendetta’ and ‘From Hell’. Moore’s style can be best described as adult in nature as Moore isn’t afraid to venture into a pessimistic storyline without happy endings and more of a depressive nature than other comic book series on the market. After working with Marvel UK and several other British magazines, Moore came to the USA and started to work for DC comics by helping to re-invent the comic book series ‘The Swamp Thing’. Moore would go on to re-establish several DC comic book properties including ‘Deadman’ and ‘Spectre’ and was also the first individual to introduce the character John Constantine who would eventually become an important property for DC Comics when they gave him his own series entitled ‘Hellblazer’. Moore would go on to contribute his writing for several high profile characters including Batman and Superman as well as the League of Extraordinary Gentleman series. Moore would soon leave DC Comics and work on several independent comics as well as contribute to the ‘W.I.L.D.C.A.T.S.’ comic book series for Image Comics. Moore has had several issues with comic book companies over copyright and licensing issues and has since declared that he will only include his name on properties that he fully owns and that all creations not owned by him should have his name taken off of the properties. Alan Moore now gives us a quote on his thoughts on the graphic novel industry for the month of April…

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March’s Quote of the Month comes courtesy of American author and columnist Dave Barry. He is a Pulitzer award winning author who has written several comedic novels and has had a syndicated humor column with the Miami Herald newspaper from 1983 to 2005. Two of Dave’s books were the inspiration for the comedic sitcom ‘Dave’s World’ which ran from 1993 to 1997. Barry’s first novel ‘Big Trouble’ was turned into a motion picture starring Tim Allen in 2001. He would later write ‘Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys’ which was then turned into a film and premiered at several film festivals. The film has since been released on DVD. When he’s not writing, Dave can be found playing alongside his band ‘The Rock Bottom Remainders’ which consists of other writers including Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. In this month’s quote, Dave disputes the subtle differences in a joke between two people if they’ve consumed different beverages…

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February is here and that means that the Winter Olympics in Vancouver are finally upon us. We intertwine the Olympics with a quote from Jack Handey. Jack Handey is an American Humorist best known for his ‘Deep Thoughts’ segment on Saturday Night Live as well as several humorous books and articles. He is a good friend of comedian Steve Martin who introduced him to Lorne Michaels and was given a writing job with SNL in 1975. He would leave to write for several other shows including a Canadian sketch series called ‘Bizarre’ and a Lorne Michaels created sketch show called ‘The New Show’ in 1984. He would also help his friend Steve Martin by writing jokes for his stand up special entitled ‘Steve Martin- Comedy Isn’t Pretty’. He would later return to SNL in 1985 as a writer and co-producer. Between 1991 and 1998 Jack Handey’s ‘Deep Thoughts’ segment would be used as a segment between sketches on SNL with actor Phil Hartman introducing each segment and Hardey then reading his deep thoughts with neither ever being shown on screen. They would play deep, relaxing music in the background of each segment as Handey proceeded to read his joke with the text scrolling down on the screen. The jokes became very popular and Handey’s jokes can now be found on his own website. We now give you one of Handey’s ‘Deep Thoughts’ where he discusses judging during the Olympics.

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