I wouldn't call Crank Yankers a bad show. It's a "meh" show that features many unfunny performances. Sometimes it has a good moment. I remember I caught an episode and thought "this show really isn't SO bad, it's KINDA funny." then I found it out I had just watched a best-of episode
Okay, it does suck, but I can't hate the show itself, just the performances on it. If that makes sense.
Primetime Glick I really really like. I didn't like it the first time I watched it, but the interviews are hilarious and the character is a perfect parody of these kind of talk show hosts that feed these fevered egos that taint our collective unconscious (to rip off a phrase from Bill Hicks). Add a layer of purely silly slapstick and it makes for a hilarious show. The Character's interaction with the celebrities is pretty much what drives the show, and the sketches on it are pretty much miss and miss. I've heard one arguement that the sketches are supposed to be bad, and a parody of the kind of sketches done on late night talk shows, which kinda makes sense, but still, if true, doesn't really make them much more enjoyable. I don't know, maybe the character doesn't carry a whole show that well, but it's too good, IMO, to just have him be a recurring character on a sketch show (like he was on Martin Short's short-lived morning talk show).
Make Me Laugh was a remake of a network show, in fact the show has been remade a few other times before it was on comedy central. I think it originated in the 50's.
I seriously am disapointed with myself for forgetting "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush." The whole idea was to embarass people, but all the stuff they did on the show seemed so joyless. Mark Curry didn't seemed amused by anything, he just shouted all of his lines. And the people who had to go through all the different things seemed like they didn't care. I remember a moment on that show that was pretty much identical to a moment on the original British show that it was based on, which really exposed to me how fucking fake it all is. They couldn't even sell the fakeness of it well. It wasn't even joyless; fuck, it was emotionless. It wasn't mean or giddy or anything, it was just fake and boring.
Anybody who thinks Strangers WIth Candy sucks is a clueless idiot. The show had layers upon layers of hilarity that required many viewings of each episode in order to take it all in. silly gags on top of smart social satire, subtle wordplay jokes and gross-out humor that disguises it's smartness and makes it like a wonderful gift waiting to be unwrapped. And the SMELL! Oh the smell!
I don't think there was anything wrong with Ben Stein's money, it wasn't hilarious, but it's not like it was offensvie that it was on comedy central or anything. Turn Ben Stein On had ONE hilarious concept: Let's interview people while having a dog run around doing tricks. But after you see that once it's not very funny anymore. Unless you begin to wonder if that's how he pitched it: "It's a talk show WITH A DOGGIE!" then it's fucking hilarious forever.
Comic Remix just makes me mad because when I see a good clip, I just want that whole show the clip was from. I wish they reran the A-List or Comedy Product. I wish they reran more old stuff like that.
Insomniac is fun, but not funny. I don't get when people are impressed by it, but it's a fun show that makes me wish I thought of that idea and had the power to do it myself.
The worst things about Tough Crowd is that one lady who takes all the jokes seriously (Bobo knows what I am talking about
) and the one guy whos in like every episode who repeats his "shocking" racist joke when nobody gets shocked by them. Also, I hate when they get into some kind of interesting discussion, it never gets far because it'll be killed by some dumb joke, as if somebody got poked off camera by a comedy central exec who is trying to remind the participants in the discussion that it's a "comedy" show. Colin Quinn is a shitty host, but I don't think he's unfunny. I think he just has a very hard time talking.
Battlebots was not funny in any way.
I LOVED the League of Gentlemen. The first episode sucked, but the rest of it was so easy to get into. Fucking fantastic black humor. The episodes are a lot better uncut.
I remember when Bob and Margaret was just a short cartoon they used to show on Cartoon Network all the time on that "O' Canada" show. Did nothing for me either. I didn't really think we were counting imports...
Half of Chapelle's Show is pretty shit. The other half is funny, and a lot of it is clever.
Craig Kilborn interviewed Bob and David twice on the Daily Show and pretended to know about Mr. Show and stuff, but when he had Paul Tompkins on his Late show to promote "Real Time with Bill Mahar," he mentioned "Dag" as one of his previous projects to the audience when introducing him, but NOT Mr. Show. Fucking dicksucker.
I like Let's Bowl. It was pure (PURE SHIT HAHAH NOW YOU CAN'T SAY IT YOU GAYS). It had a sleezy charm to it like Bowling Alleys do. Maybe it wasn't funny but it was fucking fun as hell to watch. The whole People's Court concept is something that originated from the original show they did on local television in Minneapolis. I loved some of the cases, like one where two brothers competed over who their dead mother loved best. It's amazing that they could make a bowling show as entertaining as it was.
Beat the Geeks was completely uninteresting.
Absolutely Fabulous (the first three series, anyway) is fantastic.
Gary and Mike is shit, I remember it from UPN/MTV.
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