Shocking isn’t it. Is Rape Funny? “That was a question that, as comedians, we had to address,” says Director Joe Stramowski, “How can you take something so awful, so tragic and make it funny? Not in an indignant way of speaking. But seriously, how do we do it, what’s the method.” In the end we knew that we had to remove gender context from the joke (eg Male on Male) and make the victim deserving… and seriously, what’s worse than an anti-semitic clown? That’s right… Nothing!”
The 2nd episode in the Web-TV series, Masters of Power Present was produced for the low cost of $70 and shot in an hour and a half, utilizing cinematic sound design and chasing patterns of light to achieve the ominous look. The rough framework of the story was written by Stramowski; however, it was the speedy and sharp witted improve skills of the cast (MOP writers Christian Jones and Eric Cromwell) that brought the razor dialogue to the piece.
