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Now, The Video Spoofs Of Diablo Cody

No one would bother if they didn't like her (or wanna be her...)

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Are we going to need stacks of quarters to watch her “videos?”

Comment by pb — February 26, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
This horribly unfunny, homemade, not-worthy-of-YouTube video merits an article on your site? Were you just looking for another chance to bash Juno? What do you have against this film and its screenwriter? The Oscar is well-deserved, in my opinion.

As for this clip, this person is not only way off, but there’s not one laugh to be had in this “spoof”, and it’s the most amateurish slice of boredom I’ve seen in a long time. Is this a relative of yours? How else did you think this was worth a post?

Comment by Brian M — February 26, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
That was horrible, just horrible. That looked like something staright out of Mad TV (still below SNL on the totem pole of crap.)

Comment by Arrested Development Fan — February 26, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
That was really lame. Diablo Cody is cool. Saw her on Letterman last year and back in January. I hope she stays true to who she is. I also ran into her at Gersh one day, seemed really nice. Jealousy sucks, spoofers.

Comment by PHIL DALE DUCKIE — February 26, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Thank God there are others out there who also found Juno’s (the character’s not the movie’s) dialogue so self-conscious, uber-hip and phony as to be utterly painful to watch. It actually ruined an otherwise decent little movie for me. Now I know I’m not the lone voice crying out in the wilderness!

Comment by Rick — February 26, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
oh for chrissakes, quit the jealousy of diabolo cody. she’s hot, stylish, fricking talented, and has (gasp!) a personality which she (gasp) doesn’t hide. is she suppossed to be ugly, wear shapeless clothes and have dorky hair and no personality because that won’t be so threatening to everyone? juno, was the freshest indie dramedy in years, audiences went nuts for it, critics went nuts for it, she’s 28, it was her first script. quit with the jealousy already.

Comment by mather p — February 26, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
I wish I were talented enough to do a Chris Crocker parody, “Leave Diablo Alone!”

While I thought her Oscar dress was perhaps inappropriate (although nothing approaching Cher-level) it seemed pretty in character, and I like her writing in Entertainment Weekly.

Comment by Elayne Riggsne Riggs — February 26, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
With each Oscar ceremony, what it means to actually win an Oscar loses more and more meaning. Why not just be done with it and give one to Miley Cyrus.

Comment by Michael Dobrofsky — February 26, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
My nominations for Hollywood Saviours of the Year:

DIRECTOR: GIL CATES - not only did he save the WGA from itself, but he personally saved the Oscars and make it what we know and love.

WRITER: DIABLO CODY - not only has she become the face (anytime the media needed a quote about the writer’s strike who did they ask?) of the future of writing, but she’s a damn snappy dresser, too.

ACTOR: AN A-LIST TIE - how can you not love those actors who can most afford it trying to shut out those struggling for work actors from SAGs voting process–I mean, who do they think they are, the WGA?

HOLLYWOOD UNION BUSTER: NICK COUNTER - Gotta love a guy who even when shut out of the process still manages to take slaps at the WGA.

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: NIKKI FINKE - love or hate her (and that’s a minute by minute judgement call), at least she gives a damn. That’s a lot more than most “insiders” can say.

There’s more, but come up with your own list.

Comment by Jake Hollywood — February 26, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
I don’t really know anything about Diablo Cody, but I really did enjoy Juno.

I am trying to figure out what specifically she did do inspire such vitriol? Considering how often first time screenwriters win best screenplay; or how often women win best screenplay, it seems odd that another group of young sketch writers spent this much time trying to rip her apart.

Did I miss out on what she did to deserve this send up other than winning an award?

Comment by Paul — February 26, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Saw her parents on Oprah. Seems like Diablo, also known as “Brook” on her birth certificate, might be one of those products of too stable a home and too much love growing up. Cause this chick’s got an attention addiction. A former stripper and now a media whore. Lifting her dress at the Oscars and showing her fat leg. Her poor family.

Comment by Hm... — February 26, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Don’t start picking on Cody. This isn’t high school, Nikke.

Comment by Mark S. — February 26, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
And with every word that comes out of their mouths, these bozos show why they will never win an Academy Award.

If you are going to mock someone, have something at least borderline funny to say.

I’d rather be trapped for ten days, watching videos of Jimmy Kimmel’s pasty nipples over and over again than ever have to sit through this crap one more time.

Comment by anotherWGAwriter — February 26, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
Yes!

Comment by Sarah — February 26, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Lame. Did anyone even make it to the end of this crap?

Comment by milo — February 26, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
this video might be bad, but it’s eons better than ‘juno.’

Comment by frogger — February 26, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
i hate to be a hater, but c’mon - a little Diablo backlash is perfectly healthy. for awhile there, i thought i was the only one who didn’t love this sloppy little movie.

for further reading, check out some “leaked pages” from her next screenplay: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/diablo-cody-screenplay.php

pretty funny…

Comment by Voyeur — February 26, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
That’s not her?

Comment by mla28 — February 26, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
Diablo Cody is ripe for parody, but the makers of that clip hammered their attempt into the ground. Started out amusing, but held onto the same joke too long to be effective.

Comment by 40yearoldstitzer — February 26, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Well, that little diatribe posing as parody landed with a thud.

What is that awful stench? Oh yeah. Jealousy.

Such, I suppose, is the fate of the talented, the unique voice. Oscar Wilde had his detractors. So did Hemingway. Even William Goldman’s taken his share of shit from douchebag haters.

Begrudging another’s success doesn’t earn you a rung up the ladder. If all y’all are so frakkin’ talented and Diablo’s a poseur douche, pony up your Oscar and Spirit-winning best original screenplay that gets your lead actress an Academy Award nomination and $150m+ in domestic box office. That’s a slightly tougher challenge than spending two minutes projectile-vomiting anonymous venom.

Comment by mheister — February 26, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
And she divorces her husband as soon as Juno becomes a hit. Yeah, she’s a real great person…

Comment by Honest to Blog — February 26, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
Some people here are taking things too seriously. Diablo Cody seems like a nice enough person who wrote a good screenplay and is pretty much on top of the movie business right now (name five other screenwriters who are legitimate “household names” the way she is (not counting writers who direct or act too)). Why should she be immune to satire? It’s not like they’re kicking her when she’s down. They’re just riffing on the flaws of a mostly good film and calling Cody something of a compulsive attention-seeker.

Comment by D — February 26, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Juno was cute at best, not even as funny as last years bandwagon have you seen it pic little miss sunshine… which was also… not really very funny. criminal underuse of alan arkin and steve carell by the way.

The more of this diablo crap i see around online and in print i’m beginning to see that it’s the spin machine around her (as a moneymaking force) which is amplifying an only moderately annoying sort of long in the tooth art school girlish image… and from the defense and protective tenor of many of these posts, it seems to be working on many of you. i would feel sorry for her, honestly, but it’s hard to feel bad for somebody who just won that thing and has so many great deals inked around town.

Comment by chris — February 26, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
The problem with Diablo Cody isn’t Diablo Cody. It’s her gratingly oppressive overexposure. We’ve had the stripper-makes good Cinderella story rammed down our throats by her obnoxious publicists so much that a backlash was inevitable.

Truth be told, the cringe-worthy fabricated slang made up only about 10 minutes of an otherwise well-written, well-made film. It’s not those ten minutes, but the six months since then that have the haters all riled up.

Comment by Jerry — February 26, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
Nikki, this is one doodle that can’t be undone.

Comment by Jon — February 26, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
once upon a time, working a PEEP BOOTH for guys to jack off to you and having simulated sex for $60 a pop (as she proclaimed) and taking off your top and showing your boobies… did not a writer make.

Anyone defending her is just a horny guy.

our culture sucks. i certainly don’t think it’s a good message to send to young girls: you want to be a writer (once the domain of intelligent chicks) — here’s a plan — BECOME A STRIPPER.

she’s lame, as in grrrrrl 1999 lame.

Comment by anon — February 26, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Juno and Diablo Cody are jokes. No one talks like the people in her “movie” and if there are people like that, God help them. If you want a good movie, watch Ghost World.

Comment by zs — February 26, 2008 @ 7:24 pm
her next project is Jennifer’s Body starring Megan Fox. It’s a comedy / horror flick about a couple of girls who roll around in the sack together one too many times… oh boy!!!

Comment by fox fan — February 26, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
Have any of you Diablo lovers seen her blog, Pussy Ranch? It is the most self involved vanity blog I have ever seen.

Unfortunately, because of reading her blog before I had seen the movie, it was the one DVD out of all the DVDs sent to me that I just couldn’t watch. I was just to predisposed to hate it.

I’m sure I’ll eventually watch it, but I found it hard to root for her.

Comment by blechhness — February 26, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
Get a grip you jealous bunch of wannabeeees.

Diablo is way cooler then you and me for that fact. She wrote something great. She won an Oscar. Congrats. For all you jealous writers, keep on working on your next Brady Bunch movie sequel. Or perhaps, your next piece of crap for Ben Silverman and NBC. I do miss my mentor Brandon Tartikoff.

Comment by Phil Dale Duckie — February 27, 2008 @ 12:17 am
After seeing Juno for the first time several weeks ago, I thought it needed at least one more rewrite. Unfortunate.

Comment by hyphenate-wannabe — February 27, 2008 @ 12:45 am
Oh, you bandwaggon hopping star f*ckers crack me up. The only reason people knew about her before all this was because it was trendy at hipster coffee shops to be seen reading her book. She is soaking up her 15 minutes of being “the face of the writers strike” and belle of the ball that beat out screenplays about a cartoon rat, yet another lawyer movie, and two films that I don’t even think the Academy saw. Don’t even get me started on the shoe story. She is sticking her overexposed face in every camera to whine about million dollar shoes shoes. If she was really “at a time where I really want to hide” like she said on her myspace, instead of just saying that for the sympathy and attention then maybe she would actually go away instead of contacting newspapers to ask them if they want to interview her. She is like that girl in college that never stops talking about how she was a high school cheerleader. Ted Bundy played football for Polk High and you were a stripper, we get it.

Comment by Jonny O — February 27, 2008 @ 6:53 am
You know what? I have at least eleven things in common with Diablo Cody and I think that’s a GOOD thing. I’ve been using that to promote my story under difficult circumstances for a while and I wouldn’t do it unless I believed in her talent and her voice. You can read what some of those things are here:

http://www.myspace.com/rodneywga

http://www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com

Comment by Rodney — February 27, 2008 @ 7:32 am
hilarious.

Comment by Anonymous — February 27, 2008 @ 8:57 am
If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. - Kingsley Amis (1922 - )

Comment by pb — February 27, 2008 @ 9:04 am
What is the deal with all the hype over this person? Sorry, but her writing is not Oscar caliber. Thankfully she will fade away in a year or so, after she cranks out some stinkers and we won’t have to endure watching her try so hard to be “bad ass” and different and hip. The cardinal sin of being “hip” is trying. And boy, is she.
She needs to disappear for awhile and learn to write.
As for everyone being haters and wanting to BE her?
You’re kidding, right?
It’s only the nerdy dweebs in this town who think she is stylish or hip.
I seriously am not trying to work a 1997 Betty Page-Goth look. That Rockabilly thing was over at the first light of 2000.

Comment by sdl — February 27, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Diablo Cody is a hack. Juno was a moderately cute movie, but like some others I found the dialogue to be obnoxiously overwritten. I’ve heard most of it was improve anyways. It seems like every year or two a movie comes out that people want to label as the “underdog” and give it the people’s support. Juno was okay, but other movies this year had more heart, more laughs, and better acting. Ellen Page - Oscar candidate? Sure, for Hard Candy. Not for this dreck. And whomever thinks “Diablo” Cody is hot needs to get off the pipe. That tattoo, that Oscar dress, that terrible makeup? Trash. Pure trash. Can’t wait for this one to disappear like so many flavors of the month before.

Comment by Juno What? — February 27, 2008 @ 9:49 am
Haven’t seen Juno yet so can’t comment on its quality, but it seems DC is getting 95% of her publicity off the fact that she was a stripper.

A stripper turned screenwriter - that’s a great story.

I predict a 5 year career flame-out.

Am I jealous? Damn fucking right I am!!!

Comment by Satan Murphy — February 27, 2008 @ 9:50 am
I agree with “D” and others – too much envious vitriol for Brook-cum-Diablo. She seems nice enough, even if she’s ripened fruit for parody at the moment given her successes.

Comment by thatsocialjones — February 27, 2008 @ 10:51 am
Diablo Cody is boring and Juno, while cute, is hardly a great piece of art. It’s success speaks more to the fact that the Hollywood machine is pumping out nothing more than garbage these days than it does to the film’s quality.

Sadly, the continued success of “indies” such as Juno and Little Miss Sunshine is just going to make it harder for true independent filmmakers (the Hal Hartleys and Jim Jarmusches) to get their films made and distributed.

And jealously has nothing to do with it.

Comment by colinsmith — February 27, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
Wait, so humor is not allowed anymore?

Comment by Brian — February 27, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
Hilarious.

Why is everyone getting so upset about people making fun of Diablo? Being in the public eye makes her fodder for jokes just as much as the next guy.

Comment by Heather — February 27, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
“No one would bother if they didn’t like her (or wanna be her…)”

Hmmm… is that why SNL spoofs GW Bush? They want to be him? Haha… sometimes it’s just fun to lampoon somebody you think is a ridiculous hack. Not all of us like the slang fest twee-calculated hit of the year (and it’s not all backlash.) Get over it and move on…

Comment by jesus — February 27, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
And to think all those poor screenwriters were following Syd Field when they should have simply become pole dancers in some titty bar in order to make a sale and land the job of writing a TV series for Spielberg!

Comment by Francine Fishpaw — February 27, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Agreed with most of the commenters above.

Diablo wasn’t a real stripper. She was a college-educated, upper-middle class girl that got bored of working in a cubicle. So she started stripping so she could get some life experience and at the same time condescend to everything and everyone around her. Real classy.

This crap about her being “edgy”, “real”, or “hip” only works with the same geeks that JUNO was carefully packaged and marketed directly towards. Her personality, hipster-posturing, and horrid nude photos (how old was she in those pics? Like 26? A little old to be taking teenager emo pics, eh, honey?) are no different than what you’ll find in Silverlake on any given night. In short, about as edgy as vanilla iced cream.

And the notion that the dialogue of JUNO somehow had its finger on the pulse of the “ISpeak” generation only further proves that this town wouldn’t know a real teenager if one bit them on the ass. They only know posturing posers trying to re-live their teen years through screenplay.

I’m glad her contrived backstory with its superb marketing hook got her the Oscar, because this is sadly where the train stops.

Hope you had a fun ride, Brooke. Now please get off. And please–grow up. Just because you waited until 25 to have any kind of social life doesn’t mean the rest of us have to pay the price for the supposed street cred that you and your publicist bought and paid for.

Comment by Layne — February 28, 2008 @ 1:32 am
As a screenwriter myself and someone who wishes there were more female screenwriters so there might be some halfway decent female characters for talented actresses to play, I have to say that I can’t stand Diablo Cody. Not because I’m jealous of her (bitch, please!) but because I just find her whole “act” altogether rather strained and therefore tiring.

As soon as she started “writing” for Entertainment Weekly, I decided to not renew my subscription and it’s since lapsed. I’m not going to pay to read her drivel. I see and hear enough of that tattooed tramp everywhere else.

And I love how that shoe designer (the one she was bitching about) came out and said she co-designed the damned things with him. So it’s not like he was some stranger who was forcing her to wear his multi-million dollar shoes. Diablo Cody is a lying bitch who just wants attention much like a two year old who throws tantrums in the candy aisle at the store if Momma doesn’t fill her arms with Snickers.

Comment by Sandy Daley — February 28, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
i love old english…
teasing is not hating..

Comment by Kim — February 28, 2008 @ 7:48 pm
Diablo Cody is an attention-hog ripe for parody, but this piece of parody just wasn’t very funny.

She’s also a really sharp writer. Juno was brilliant writing. And a lot of kids do talk like the characters in the movie. Just because they don’t talk like that everywhere doesn’t mean no one talks like that.

I liked her Oscars dress. If anyone deserves wardrobe mockery, it’s Tilda Swinton (who is otherwise very cool).

The stripper-turned-writer thing has gone stale, particularly since she’s really a middle class college girl turned writer, with some dabbling in stripping along the way. However, it is a sufficiently memorable story to help her turn her into a brand, when most writers fail to draw notice except from movie people and serious fans. If her future work is as brilliant as Juno, she’ll maintain the celebrity she enjoys now. If she’s used up her supply of talent, she’ll fade.

She didn’t particularly deserve the Oscar, but her writing did. That’s just the opposite of a lot of Oscars.

Comment by Steve S — February 29, 2008 @ 4:57 am
If her future work is as brilliant as Juno,

OMG, have you read JENNIFER’S BODY? It’s horrible, as in like really, really bad. And she gets all her Minnesota-isms wrong, like really wrong, as in she doesn’t know what the F she’s talking about. (People do NOT say “y’all” in Minnesota… EVER.) She’s no Coen Bros. Let me tell ya, JB ain’t winning no Oscar.

Comment by ihatecats — March 3, 2008 @ 12:33 am
Thank you for this post Brian M. You are what we call a fan boy. An annoying stupid little idiotic fan boy who likes overrated crap like Juno and other indie pseudo witty bullshit that’s been over hyped like the commercialized crap they are. Not only is this video Spot on about how Diablo Cody is a hack, it’s also gut busting funny. The fact that you support the Oscars, an award show that focuses more on popularity rather than actual filming and artistic merits shows how ignorant you are to the world of Cinema and true artistic merits.

This clip was not only funny, but it said more about overrated stupid writers who relied on mundane pop culture references as well as pseudo hipster language then that two hour of a mess you oh so covet like the hack you are. Learn a thing or two about Humor kid.

Comment by Anonymous — April 24, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Oh I beg to differ Steve. This person pretty much got Diablo Cody’s attention whore persona down to a note.

Anyone who thinks Juno is “sharp writing” as you so eloquently stated has serious problems. This movie was anything BUT sharp. It’s about as witty and as stupid as any other sketch comedy crap you would see today. Nothing original about Juno

As for kids talking like this, I will have to agree. A lot of kids do talk like idiots like the way Ellen Page portrayed. But they don’t talk like that 24/7 in every sentence they state. It’s almost like Ellen Page was trying to be cool. The fact that you say this is brilliant writing makes me question your taste.

Her Oscar dress was hideous. No on in the right mind would chose that hideously looking number as their pick for the Oscars. Especially for the Oscars. It’s a Mockery to fashion and she should be kicked out of the country for that.

This was nothing more than a mess of pseudo hipster language and stupid forgettable jokes as well as horrendous dialogue. If her work is the same as Juno My advice to this hack of a writer is to stop writing and go back to showing your ass to drunken business men who have shitty taste in women. Better yet Diablo, don’t go back to stripping. You’re and ugly woman with no class. Try flipping burgers. That seems to fit her best.

Comment by Anonymous — April 24, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

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