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I just read that Surviving Jack was shitcanned. Did they really not do anything good with that? You'd think they'd get poo poo My Dad Says right the second time.
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The best Drunk History segment is the one about Chris Romano's father that I have no idea whether it's remotely true or not.
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Jul 6, 2014 21:18
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Deadpool posted:I'm agreeing with Irish Joe a lot these days. He's right about Axe Cop being bad too.
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Jul 6, 2014 21:18
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More and more this thread becomes a Tower of Babel
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Jul 6, 2014 21:31
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Fox ADHD was so embarassing because they were this close. The idea of giving a bunch of young people an animation studio and letting them go hog wild was a surprisingly ballsy move, the problem is that instead of pulling established talent from the internet they gave it to a bunch of shithead art school grads who couldn't do anything but parrot internet memes and mindlessly copy internet trends in the least interesting way possible. It could have been Cartoon Hangover With A Budget And Less Tumblr, instead it was tepid Oatmeal/Cracked.com "oh man you guys remember the 90s?!  " non-humor.
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Jul 6, 2014 21:39
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scary ghost dog posted:More and more this thread becomes a Tower of Babel It's like I'm looking at this bottle of hot sauce and thinking "How hot could it be?"
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Jul 6, 2014 21:45
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scary ghost dog posted:I bet you think drunk history sucks because drunk people aren't funny. It's not super funny but the reenactments are pretty good sometimes. They could definitely stand to get more creative people to gently caress up the history though.
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Jul 6, 2014 21:52
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I like drunk history for the history not the drunks. Watch a documentary instead.
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FilthyImp posted:I just read that Surviving Jack was shitcanned. Did they really not do anything good with that? You'd think they'd get poo poo My Dad Says right the second time. It wasn't amazing but still pretty watchable. It had it's moments, I thought. I pretty much love Christoper Meloni in anything though, so I might be a little biased. Honestly I was a little bummed when it got cancelled, because I like to have a couple sitcoms to keep up with when I don't want to watch something "long". Not a lot of them make it past their first seasons anymore, it seems 
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precision posted:It's like I'm looking at this bottle of hot sauce and thinking "How hot could it be?" Alcohol should be replaced with Tabasco in Drunk History. Then it would be entertaining.
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Sober posted:Watch a documentary instead. I do usually.
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Jul 7, 2014 00:24
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I only ever really liked Lucas Brothers Moving Company in ADHD.
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Jul 7, 2014 00:53
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Hey I can finally post here again, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Also, The Leftovers fuckin rules, just fyi
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Jul 7, 2014 01:57
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Not a big fan of leftovers myself.
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Jul 7, 2014 02:04
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I put in tosh.0 in the background earlier today and id never seen it before. Is it always so...racist? I don't think I'm overly sensitive about this sort of stuff, but it was like non-stop jokes about Mexicans and Asians.
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Jul 7, 2014 03:51
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Xandu posted:I put in tosh.0 in the background earlier today and id never seen it before. Is it always so...racist? I don't think I'm overly sensitive about this sort of stuff, but it was like non-stop jokes about Mexicans and Asians. It's Daniel Tosh, so yes.
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Jul 7, 2014 04:00
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Xandu posted:I put in tosh.0 in the background earlier today and id never seen it before. Is it always so...racist? I don't think I'm overly sensitive about this sort of stuff, but it was like non-stop jokes about Mexicans and Asians. Tosh's whole thing is that he uses being "edgy" as a cover for a lack of talent and a shield from criticism. See: his response to being heckled being a jokeless tirade about how he hoped the heckler got raped, and when people made fun of him for it he whined about how feminists were persecuting him.
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Jul 7, 2014 04:14
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Daniel Tosh came here (New Orleans) on his tour a couple years ago and his very first joke was about Hurricane Katrina washing us all away. I didn't attend the show but several of my friends did.
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Jul 7, 2014 04:18
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The only Daniel Tosh thing I've seen is him making fun of those Cold Steel swords and it's hilarious.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Daniel Tosh came here (New Orleans) on his tour a couple years ago and his very first joke was about Hurricane Katrina washing us all away. I didn't attend the show but several of my friends did. I can't think of a better way to start the show
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Jul 7, 2014 04:40
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Despite being a " Storm's a-comin' " episode, Halt and Catch Fire actually made a decent episode.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Tosh's whole thing is that he uses being "edgy" as a cover for a lack of talent and a shield from criticism. See: his response to being heckled being a jokeless tirade about how he hoped the heckler got raped, and when people made fun of him for it he whined about how feminists were persecuting him. That's a bad example because most comedians can't improv. That's why shows like @Midnight are so heavily scripted. And yet Chris Hardwick is not even funny with a team of writers.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:11
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Aphrodite posted:That's a bad example because most comedians can't improv. 
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He's a competent talk show host who figured out how to maximize his brand through nerd appeal. I don't love or hate @midnight but how funny it is depends entirely on how funny the panel is.
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feedmyleg posted:He really isn't. I need to hear Irish Joe, arbiter of taste before I can decide. Hardwick got a lot more bearable in the last 1-2 years. He was really, really obnoxious regularly on the Nerdist podcast before.
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Chris Hardwick is never funny but sometimes he is almost charming. And then he yells "POINTS!" and I'm like "why does this show even have a goddamn host" 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Hey now Are there really people that would argue that Chris Hardwick is funny on his own? Decius posted:Hardwick got a lot more bearable in the last 1-2 years. He was really, really obnoxious regularly on the Nerdist podcast before. I never listened to the podcast but I tried watching the TV show once or twice and I was never able to make it through an entire episode.
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FilthyImp posted:I just read that Surviving Jack was shitcanned. Did they really not do anything good with that? You'd think they'd get poo poo My Dad Says right the second time. It's a shame, because Meloni was so good in it that it didn't matter that the show was essentially just another throwback show with some plot lines that didn't really make the most sense. It was a good laugh I thought. ...of SCIENCE! posted:Fox ADHD was so embarassing because they were this close. The idea of giving a bunch of young people an animation studio and letting them go hog wild was a surprisingly ballsy move, the problem is that instead of pulling established talent from the internet they gave it to a bunch of shithead art school grads who couldn't do anything but parrot internet memes and mindlessly copy internet trends in the least interesting way possible. It could have been Cartoon Hangover With A Budget And Less Tumblr, instead it was tepid Oatmeal/Cracked.com "oh man you guys remember the 90s?! I really liked High School USA, Lucas Bros and Golan. I agree with others that Axe Cop was a fun blast a few times but it didn't grab me enough to keep watching. I'd be happy if the other 3 got relocated to Adult Swim though, Lucas Bros *definitely* need to get something permanent on the air.
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Xandu posted:I put in tosh.0 in the background earlier today and id never seen it before. Is it always so...racist? I don't think I'm overly sensitive about this sort of stuff, but it was like non-stop jokes about Mexicans and Asians. Usually more misogynistic than racist, but yes, also quite racist.
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Well, [as] is trying to move to primetime, so
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I've been catching up with Workaholics. Just watched the episode where they massacre a bunch of rats. I found it to be in really bad taste and not particularly funny. I know it's all special effects but it's really disappointing that a show I generally find to be pretty clever would dedicate a huge chunk of an episode to smashing animals with bats.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Book Barn/TVIV hybrid question: are there any good books about The X-Files out there? Not novelizations or whatever, but rather books about the show itself, the making of, how influential it was, maybe cool background info about the spoooooky stories? I remember the Books of the Unexplained being interesting though I haven't read them since the show was on. This is a 2008 compilation of the ones I had, I think. There are some related books in the also-bought and bought-together sections so check those out too.
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PantsBandit posted:I've been catching up with Workaholics. Just watched the episode where they massacre a bunch of rats. I found it to be in really bad taste and not particularly funny. I know it's all special effects but it's really disappointing that a show I generally find to be pretty clever would dedicate a huge chunk of an episode to smashing animals with bats. Well let's be honest, it's not a particularly smart show. They've ramped up the gross out humour this year because they needed a new angle because it was getting in a bit of a rut. Thought it was stupid, silly fun personally. The bit with the fish was as bad if not worse.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Book Barn/TVIV hybrid question: are there any good books about The X-Files out there? Not novelizations or whatever, but rather books about the show itself, the making of, how influential it was, maybe cool background info about the spoooooky stories? Kumail nanjiani started a podcast reviewing the show from it's beginning, the x-files files
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PantsBandit posted:I've been catching up with Workaholics. Just watched the episode where they massacre a bunch of rats. I found it to be in really bad taste and not particularly funny. I know it's all special effects but it's really disappointing that a show I generally find to be pretty clever would dedicate a huge chunk of an episode to smashing animals with bats.
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Workaholics had one near-perfect season, then a not so great one with a couple of episodes that were way better than the rest, then a mostly great one, then a pretty bad one.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:47
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Hey Deadpool this Key and Peele show is pretty good, thanks for the rec.
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:Kumail nanjiani started a podcast reviewing the show from it's beginning, the x-files files This is a really amazing podcast. He reads the old usenet posts from when the shows first aired. Trolling used to be really different.
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IRQ posted:Hey Deadpool this Key and Peele show is pretty good, thanks for the rec. Key and Peele were pretty good on Fargo.
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