Epic Fail Quotes

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”
― Mark O'Connell, Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent”
― Mark O'Connell, Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

“The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.”
― Mark O'Connell, Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

“He shows, however accidentally, that the devices and conventions we have learned to respond to do not necessarily solve or even do anything. More than any artist I can think of, Wiseau proves Northrop Frye’s belief that all conventions are, at heart, insane.”
― Mark O'Connell, Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

“Much like Ros’s novels, then, The Room is remarkable for the way it seems to expose the absurd artifices of its form by getting everything about that form so flagrantly wrong. Wiseau’s failure to achieve the clichés he seems to aim for at the level of plot, dialogue, and performance eventually starts to look like aesthetic subversion.”
― Mark O'Connell, Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever