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Monday
24Nov2008

A Day in the Life of 'Variety'

DateMonday, November 24, 2008 at 3:01AM
Thanks to Anne Thompson at Variety for sharing this hilarious, astute video from Funny or Die. Maybe you don't read a lot of Variety, but the legendary trade has a very particular writing style, calling an actor "thesp" for thespian, and abbreviating studio names (Paramount becomes "Par"), and so forth. It is as endearing as it is infuriating.

This video is a brainstorming meeting about new Variety slanguage, that very specific shorthand that most of us would never dare try to emulate if we wanted to be taken seriously.

I will warn you: The dialogue is not work-safe. Unless your workplace totally rocks.

Yeah..."shit pit." Definitely stealing that one. Was that too inside or did you find it as amusing as I did?

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