The Network President by Richard Rivera - Short, Comedy, Satire - A thoughtless, insensitive billionaire who owns his own commercial-free television station manages  to offend the viewing public with offensive programming. 18 pages - pdf, format

Writer interested in feedback on this work

Ummm... I read the first character's dialogue and I said to myself, I'm out. Then I was about to move on and I couldn't help myself. So I read more and more and more. I'm calling it after six.

I'm all for crude and edgy but I guess to me it felt like crude for the sake of being crude. Others might love this but I'm having trouble with it. Honestly the trouble probably starts with the logline. It's simply a statement and doesn't actually convey drama.

You're obviously super creative. Fixing the logline might help you really focus your story, and drop the stuff that's unnecessary.

Good luck with this one.

Hi Richard,

SPOILERS - I think

This is a voice over and needs to be written as such unless Murry is on the screen which I'm pretty sure he isn't.

Quoted Text MURRY'S VOICE That's the VBG Network building. Wait a sec. Listen, before I go and

Would be MURRY'S VOICE (V.0.).

Bit of an odd way to spell Murry.

If you are going to give your characters such long names, try keep the spelling consistent.

Quoted Text So Vondergotrumm Senior gave Vondergotrtumm junior

This really is no holes bared.

Quoted Text Go to the nearest homeless shelter. I'm sure you'll have no problems finding a group of blacks. Just make sure you use those that are mentally ill. I don't want any alcoholics on the set.

Is it VBV or VBG?

Quoted Text Coming up on V-B-V

Lots of sloppy typos, I don't think this was edited at all.

And now there's aliens???? Haha WTF!

The more common spelling of Murray.

Quoted Text You lost me, Murray.

And I'm done. Holy shit, that was like an acid trip gone bad.

So we have black face, slavery, Jews, gays, misogyny, UFO's, and a great white shark attack.

As previously mentioned the writing is really sloppy, lots of typos, but you know what I laughed, I laughed several times, and I laughed hard.

The dialogue is really quite good and snappy.

Maybe I'm just in a strange mood today but it's so random it's hilarious.

This will divide a lot of people, no doubt.

Guys:

Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm editing the piece properly. As to the subject matter, the short is of course a satire. The main character is as blind morally as he is ethically.

I'm planning to expand the piece, make corrections etc...

Again, your comments are much appreciated and sorry for the bad acid trip gone bad!



RIch

Don't have to apologize, I meant that as a compliment.

I though it was extremely funny.

I'm not sure how Victor functions at all, with such poor memory. Most of your humour was silly. E.g. the thing about riding killer robots on dinosaurs, farting at the last supper, etc. Some of it was so offensive, I'm not sure it could ever be on TV. I thought the bit about Victor making a counteroffer was funny. I wanted more 'normal' humour like that. Maybe the bit about the aliens could be more developed. I didn't think your story was bad, however.