television insanity
i watch my fair share of television, but i still say with complete sincerity that television sucks. we all know this. the inspired program is rare. that said, here's what i'm watching and what i'm thinking about all the crazy shit happening on tv today:
the office: duh, of course, not much to say. it's brilliant. the finale was great, but everyone should prepare themselves for the inevitable: it'll be another season or so before pam and jim hook up, if they do at all before the show's finale. OR they'll go the route of them getting together and breaking up anywhere from 3-12x over the course of the show's run.
but...... since it is the office.... and it's not like any sitcom before it (and i hate to even call it a sitcom, since for me the word has such negative connotations- family shows starring stale fat comedians with hot wives... you know the deal), perhaps, just maybe, they'll do something less cliche and, gasp!, let pam and jim be together, happily, for the rest of the show. call me crazy, but it think it's a grand idea. in television, it's like this rule that if a couple is not a couple from the start of the show, they will not have an easy time. if part of the drama of the show is their inital hooking up, the relationship will be up and down. please, the office, do not fall into this formulaic trap.
grey's anatomy: i love what lindsayism lindsay says about grey's. pretty much that's how i feel. it's oh-so-cheesy, yet oh-so-hard to turn it off. and how pathetic am i that i cried during the finale? it's not like we didn't know that denny would die. and i'm not exactly all caught up in the drama of the denny-izzie relationship. but there i am, crying like a stupid stupid girl. girls are so STUPID.
snl: when asked who my favorite castmembers are, i start with the women, who are all very talented. and then there are the guys who have been around forever (hammond, parnell, sanz). and again, very funny. very talented. and wittle cutie Andy Samberg. he's funny. and yeah, the lonely island dudes' material is refreshing. but still... i come away from every episode disappointed. i'm not alone, hardcore comedy fans feel the same way. but what bothers me is that i like pretty much everyone on the show. a lot. fred armisen and seth myers - good. when i saw asssscat in new york last november, seth was there and i was super impressed and instantly became a fan, whereas before i was indifferent. the new castmember, kristen wiig, seems like she'll do well. her original characters thus far are quite good. kenan i like. he's funny. and c'mon, good burger! all that! ah, i'm showing my age.
yeah, i'm young (i can drink legally) - i began watching the show when the cast included will ferrell, tim meadows, tracy morgan, cheri oteri, molly shannon, ana gasteyer, etc (plus a little earlier... before garofolo left). that is my reference point, my "good ol' days". every saturday i was awed and amazed. they were brilliant. rock stars. they blew my mind. now, remember that i was just a kid. would i be blown away today? maybe. when i see reruns i still laugh and am still impressed - i think there was a wee bit o' the comedy magic there.
i quit watching when it became the jimmy fallon show. gag. and this was when my classmates took notice of the show. "oh, jimmy fallon! you're so cute! you're so funny!" giggle giggle. i only watched occasionally after will ferrell and the gang left. i felt like i was suffocating and jimmy fallon was holding the pillow over my face.
and then i found improv. i became a huge amy poehler fan after seeing the asssscat special on bravo and got interested in snl again. weekend update is the only consistently good part of the show, because of tina and amy. so for the last season i've seen most of the episodes.
wow i went off track. i was saying that i REALLY LIKE all of the cast. (well, except finesse, who i kinda feel sorry for, but not really, because if he were funny he could get on the show as more than the security guard in the corner with one line. the little bits he's gotten on weekend update are pathetic. just put him out of his misery and get rid of him already.) so, yeah, my general conclusion about the show is that it could be a whole lot better, given the amount of talent they have right now. i'm sure censorship is a bitch, but whoever's deciding what makes the cut may have something to do with it. or maybe i'm overly optimistic and the only stuff submitted is complete shit.
yo momma: oh, snap! you did not just say that! man, those crazy kids! they throwin it down!
i hereby nominate wilmer valderamma for the Biggest Fucking Asshole award. i searched worldwide, high and low, and he is the official winner. this has got to be the biggest stinking pile my tv has ever shit out on my living room floor and i want him to take it back. i hate these people who think they're so brilliant. he actually thinks this was a good idea and that he's got this great show. megalomania doesn't look good on anyone, bud.
so notorious: my brother is totally into this show right now. okay, i can appreciate that tori spelling doesn't take herself seriously, that she can make fun of herself. but what do you want, a fucking medal? ohhh, a show? here ya go, princess! i don't take myself seriously and make fun of myself 24/7. where's my VH1 show? it would be damn funnier, and all without the help of fake boobs/blonde/tan. i fail to see the brilliance.
wonder showzen: it's agreed, wonder showzen is the most likely of all current programming to make your brain explode. nothing much to say about it. what i'm wanting to know is the secret of horse apples, the brilliant show-within-a-show we've seen now twice on showzen. the first time it was a short segment during the show. it can be seen here, as well as a beat kids bit of them covering the test marketing of horse apples, which was not aired.
and THEN, on may 12, during what was supposed to be the show "Mathematics", a glorious thing happened: a full thirty minute installment of horse apples. i was so excited i shit myself. (no, seriously. it's actually a very real problem. it is a daily struggle.) multiple reasons to get excited: david cross, zach galifianakis, heather lawless, todd barry, and a host of other funny people i didn't recognize (this place has more information). i was stoked to see heather lawless that first time horse apples appeared. she became a favorite after variety shac's shorts and her recent appearance on premium blend. (i just went to get this link for this post and on comedy central's front page is a new video with heather - the tiny hands series on motherload.) i'm not in new york, so all i've seen of heather is what's online and on tv, which isn't much (goddamn all these comedians without websites).
back to horse apples... test marketing... a whole half hour show... could horse apples be getting its own time slot? i'm not getting my hopes up- for one thing, david cross and zach galifianakis are, to me, pretty huge stars; it seems too good to be true that they would BOTH sign on to a regular show. and, also, stuff this good just doesn't make it onto tv. remember? television sucks?
and these i have nothing to say about, but are favorites, the few shows i watch religiously: the andy milonakis show and the obvious comedy central programming (daily show, colbert report, south park, reno 911!, stand up).
discontinued favorites: the x-files, strangers with candy, the upright citizens brigade, stella, the state (honestly, i was a kid when this was on / didn't know it existed. but i've seen a lot of the episodes online), mr. show (same deal with the state, seen a lot in reruns and on dvd)
and now, the exactly _zero_ people reading this know everything about me that they need.
the office: duh, of course, not much to say. it's brilliant. the finale was great, but everyone should prepare themselves for the inevitable: it'll be another season or so before pam and jim hook up, if they do at all before the show's finale. OR they'll go the route of them getting together and breaking up anywhere from 3-12x over the course of the show's run.
but...... since it is the office.... and it's not like any sitcom before it (and i hate to even call it a sitcom, since for me the word has such negative connotations- family shows starring stale fat comedians with hot wives... you know the deal), perhaps, just maybe, they'll do something less cliche and, gasp!, let pam and jim be together, happily, for the rest of the show. call me crazy, but it think it's a grand idea. in television, it's like this rule that if a couple is not a couple from the start of the show, they will not have an easy time. if part of the drama of the show is their inital hooking up, the relationship will be up and down. please, the office, do not fall into this formulaic trap.
grey's anatomy: i love what lindsayism lindsay says about grey's. pretty much that's how i feel. it's oh-so-cheesy, yet oh-so-hard to turn it off. and how pathetic am i that i cried during the finale? it's not like we didn't know that denny would die. and i'm not exactly all caught up in the drama of the denny-izzie relationship. but there i am, crying like a stupid stupid girl. girls are so STUPID.
snl: when asked who my favorite castmembers are, i start with the women, who are all very talented. and then there are the guys who have been around forever (hammond, parnell, sanz). and again, very funny. very talented. and wittle cutie Andy Samberg. he's funny. and yeah, the lonely island dudes' material is refreshing. but still... i come away from every episode disappointed. i'm not alone, hardcore comedy fans feel the same way. but what bothers me is that i like pretty much everyone on the show. a lot. fred armisen and seth myers - good. when i saw asssscat in new york last november, seth was there and i was super impressed and instantly became a fan, whereas before i was indifferent. the new castmember, kristen wiig, seems like she'll do well. her original characters thus far are quite good. kenan i like. he's funny. and c'mon, good burger! all that! ah, i'm showing my age.
yeah, i'm young (i can drink legally) - i began watching the show when the cast included will ferrell, tim meadows, tracy morgan, cheri oteri, molly shannon, ana gasteyer, etc (plus a little earlier... before garofolo left). that is my reference point, my "good ol' days". every saturday i was awed and amazed. they were brilliant. rock stars. they blew my mind. now, remember that i was just a kid. would i be blown away today? maybe. when i see reruns i still laugh and am still impressed - i think there was a wee bit o' the comedy magic there.
i quit watching when it became the jimmy fallon show. gag. and this was when my classmates took notice of the show. "oh, jimmy fallon! you're so cute! you're so funny!" giggle giggle. i only watched occasionally after will ferrell and the gang left. i felt like i was suffocating and jimmy fallon was holding the pillow over my face.
and then i found improv. i became a huge amy poehler fan after seeing the asssscat special on bravo and got interested in snl again. weekend update is the only consistently good part of the show, because of tina and amy. so for the last season i've seen most of the episodes.
wow i went off track. i was saying that i REALLY LIKE all of the cast. (well, except finesse, who i kinda feel sorry for, but not really, because if he were funny he could get on the show as more than the security guard in the corner with one line. the little bits he's gotten on weekend update are pathetic. just put him out of his misery and get rid of him already.) so, yeah, my general conclusion about the show is that it could be a whole lot better, given the amount of talent they have right now. i'm sure censorship is a bitch, but whoever's deciding what makes the cut may have something to do with it. or maybe i'm overly optimistic and the only stuff submitted is complete shit.
yo momma: oh, snap! you did not just say that! man, those crazy kids! they throwin it down!
i hereby nominate wilmer valderamma for the Biggest Fucking Asshole award. i searched worldwide, high and low, and he is the official winner. this has got to be the biggest stinking pile my tv has ever shit out on my living room floor and i want him to take it back. i hate these people who think they're so brilliant. he actually thinks this was a good idea and that he's got this great show. megalomania doesn't look good on anyone, bud.
so notorious: my brother is totally into this show right now. okay, i can appreciate that tori spelling doesn't take herself seriously, that she can make fun of herself. but what do you want, a fucking medal? ohhh, a show? here ya go, princess! i don't take myself seriously and make fun of myself 24/7. where's my VH1 show? it would be damn funnier, and all without the help of fake boobs/blonde/tan. i fail to see the brilliance.
wonder showzen: it's agreed, wonder showzen is the most likely of all current programming to make your brain explode. nothing much to say about it. what i'm wanting to know is the secret of horse apples, the brilliant show-within-a-show we've seen now twice on showzen. the first time it was a short segment during the show. it can be seen here, as well as a beat kids bit of them covering the test marketing of horse apples, which was not aired.
and THEN, on may 12, during what was supposed to be the show "Mathematics", a glorious thing happened: a full thirty minute installment of horse apples. i was so excited i shit myself. (no, seriously. it's actually a very real problem. it is a daily struggle.) multiple reasons to get excited: david cross, zach galifianakis, heather lawless, todd barry, and a host of other funny people i didn't recognize (this place has more information). i was stoked to see heather lawless that first time horse apples appeared. she became a favorite after variety shac's shorts and her recent appearance on premium blend. (i just went to get this link for this post and on comedy central's front page is a new video with heather - the tiny hands series on motherload.) i'm not in new york, so all i've seen of heather is what's online and on tv, which isn't much (goddamn all these comedians without websites).
back to horse apples... test marketing... a whole half hour show... could horse apples be getting its own time slot? i'm not getting my hopes up- for one thing, david cross and zach galifianakis are, to me, pretty huge stars; it seems too good to be true that they would BOTH sign on to a regular show. and, also, stuff this good just doesn't make it onto tv. remember? television sucks?
and these i have nothing to say about, but are favorites, the few shows i watch religiously: the andy milonakis show and the obvious comedy central programming (daily show, colbert report, south park, reno 911!, stand up).
discontinued favorites: the x-files, strangers with candy, the upright citizens brigade, stella, the state (honestly, i was a kid when this was on / didn't know it existed. but i've seen a lot of the episodes online), mr. show (same deal with the state, seen a lot in reruns and on dvd)
and now, the exactly _zero_ people reading this know everything about me that they need.
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