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91 | 80.53% |
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Jason Jones' Staten Island report was the best thing. I'd love to see a debate between Joey Bagadonuts and a used washer/dryer.
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Jan 7, 2015 17:08
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This isn't a parody show. It's just Politically Incorrect. Which is fine, but every discussion feels truncated and will always seem poorly edited.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:02
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Hakkesshu posted:I don't know who said that but they were full of poo poo because Colbert was loving stellar from the get-go. Nothing in that said Colbert wasn't stellar. It was 'that is a great schtick, but we doubt how long he can keep that up and still keep it fresh.' Turns out, it was 9 years.
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Jan 20, 2015 16:50
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Sorry, but "Doogie Howser M.DEEZ NUTS" was the funniest thing possible.
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Jan 30, 2015 03:25
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Je suis fatigue posted:I like Maher's show and yeah, Maher is easily the worst part. I know a dude who loving LOVES Bill Maher, religilous, dick dorkins, I'm sure Chris hitchens, and now he's a gamergater so p lol people that actually like him. I liked when Bill Burr was one and Maher wanted to bitch about PC gone mad and Burr just shut that down. Wait, BILL BURR shut down an anti-PC argument? Also, the McConnell/Cecil Turtle jokes will never get old. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Feb 5, 2015 19:30
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The fact that Stewart's entire show is devoted to how much the news media lies all the time, the fact that everyone is suddenly up in arms about THIS thing has to be a bit galling. Especially since a shitload of liars are getting high and mighty about it.
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Feb 10, 2015 21:15
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The Daily Show is a goddamn necessity. It needs someone with the earnest passion that Jon has on his best nights, and the savvy to call bullshit. I have no idea who that would be. Although it might be Brian Williams' dream job.
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Feb 11, 2015 07:12
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They might pull a Late Night and just promote one of their previously unseen writers, a la Conan O'Brien.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:05
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quote:People don't remember that Jon sucked hard for at least the first year or two he was on too, though. I don't think he really picked up steam until Bush took office (and subsequently, 9/11) and the first bunch of correspondents he had were the worst the show has ever had. (It's why I'm holding out hope for Wilmore to get better, because man is he making 11:30 look dire right now.) Did those correspondents include Beth Littleford and Brian Unger? I remember thinking they were pretty good and was sad when they left. Maybe bring back co-creator Lizz Winstead?
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Feb 11, 2015 19:23
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Mild FB argument today with people who thought Kilborn was better than Stewart, and I heard a new thing - people who use 'liberal' as an insult might also believe that Stewart got "Tough Crowd" cancelled because it didn't fit with his political views.
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Feb 12, 2015 20:38
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I like Aisha Tyler, but I have no idea if she has a strong political voice. She'd have been a great Ferguson replacement, but I don't know if this would be the fit.
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Feb 14, 2015 19:15
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I want to love the Danger stuff, but Mystikal is a horrible person and can't support it entirely.
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Feb 17, 2015 01:51
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Didn't Lewis Black already have that show once, where he judged things?
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Feb 18, 2015 18:26
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The Blagoyevich voice isn't Jewish Grandmother. It's Jerry Lewis/Professor Frink.
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Apr 6, 2015 04:59
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Yeah, I'm a bit curious about the whole 'Beloved Mike Tyson' thing these days. I guess, since he did go to jail for it, all is forgiven and he can have cartoons now?
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May 7, 2015 18:54
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Samantha Bee is getting her own late night show on TBS. Nice.
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May 14, 2015 01:43
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Are they trying a new thing where the panel is Larry awkwardly rumpling his suit while loafing sideways on an easy chair?
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May 29, 2015 18:48
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I'd rather see Lizz Winstead show up and clock Kilborn in the throat. Then bring Brian Unger back.
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Jun 26, 2015 01:03
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Oh god, I forgot about "Playing By Heart," where Jon Stewart gets a love story with Gillian Anderson. A movie that was originally called "Dancing About Architecture" but they decided to make it generic. Also, early Jon's suits look so hilariously big on him. Almost Talking Heads big. And wow, I forgot about Frank DeCaro entirely. And Al Greenwood The Bedspread King! Holy crap! Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jun 27, 2015 |
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Jun 27, 2015 05:11
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I miss John Larroquette. I would totally watch him in a show about filthy drunk priests in Arizona rehab. Although I suppose that might be a lot like Father Ted.
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Jun 27, 2015 06:00
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I honestly have to ask: What the hell's the big deal about Night Court? Is it really that goddamn funny? Because it's been bugging me for years hearing all these older people talk about it like it was the second coming of MASH. It was reliably silly fun that wasn't afraid to go over the top goofy, and often got sort of raunchy in its humor. It's no MASH, and it was never trying to be. I'm honestly not sure how well it holds up if you don't have a nostalgic fondness for it, and the later years got pretty crappy as even the stars admit in this Behind The Scenes I watched on YouTube recently. But Larroquette won four Emmys in a row for hamming it up as pervy rear end in a top hat Dan Fielding, and it was the tail end of the fabled Thursday night powerhouse comedy block that helped NBC dominate the 80s, following Cosby, Family Ties, and Cheers. I watched all those shows religiously, and Night Court was kind of the oddball even in that group. It was very schticky. I wonder if it has some kind of "mystique" now just because it's not so readily available. Nerds might also love it because it's where many of us got our first glimpse of Brent Spiner, who would later be Data on Star Trek, as a really dumb hard-luck yokel. My favorites were the ones where they had to go through 200 cases before midnight for some reason or other, which allowed them to do a lot of rapid fire jokes with a parade of dopey, ridiculous characters. And the episode where Christine Sullivan helped Harry win the arm wrestling match with a Texas millionaire for the fate of an orphanage by flashing her gazongas was Very Important to my adolescence in a time before the Internet. In all honesty, though, I bet a good amount of Dan Fielding 80s Sex Comedy Antics would not go over well in this day and age, but hey, he's sure as hell not Cosby.
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Jun 27, 2015 12:22
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Krinkle posted:The only episode I remember is john larroquette tried to get his virginity back by doing a native american sauna treatment and he came out an eight year old who went up to the first woman he saw and said, in a mans voice "hey baby do you want to play with my lincoln log?" and it froze, produced by whoever. Produced by Reinhold Weege. Pronounced "WEE-gee." It's a lot of stupid comedy. Like the episode where Bull gets hit by lightning and thinks God talks to him, but it turns out the voice he heard was Art the Maintenance Guy, and Bull goes "ART is GOD?! It makes perfect sense! Our Father, Who Is Art In Heaven!" It was a show not above bad puns. I enjoyed it so. When they did cliche sitcom plotlines, they went bananas. A lot of sitcoms had the characters forced to help a pregnant woman give birth for some contrived situation. Night Court had FIVE pregnant women all go into labor at the same time during a massive thunderstorm where they couldn't get to hospitals. It was a two-part episode. High drama! That's when we found out Dan Fielding's real name was "Reinhold." And all the characters acted disgusted at that name. Harry Anderson now runs a novelty store in New Orleans. I wonder how long I can keep talking about Night Court in this thread just because John Larroquette's guest appearance streamed last night. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 27, 2015 |
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Jun 27, 2015 17:53
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I thought every episode was already online. I remember a big advertising push about it. Did that change?
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Jun 27, 2015 19:04
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"George W. Bush announced he was running for president. He's leading in the Republican polls and nobody knows jack about him." Oh... if only that were still the case.
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Jun 27, 2015 22:06
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radlum posted:Who is this chubby guy and why is he here? Also, I had no idea you could refer to Richard Kind as the "star" of anything. Was Spin City any good? I only remember it had Michael J Fox and Brad from Rocky Horror Spin City was okay. I remember it being fairly sharp for a laugh track show at first. Although I remember being disappointed at how quickly Carla Gugino quit the show at first. It got worse when Charlie Sheen took over for Fox who had to quit to deal with Parkinson's. Heather Locklear was on it for some reason. I liked Michael Boatman and Connie Britton. Also, Cameron from Ferris Bueller and Jennifer Esposito, who was almost a thing for a while.
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Jun 28, 2015 03:31
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Woodstock 99. A thing I forgot about.
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Jun 28, 2015 05:46
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jerichojx posted:So people who were in US during 1999. Was the race stuff not covered or did it get worse over the years? Which race stuff in particular? I did just see Beth Littleford talk about the suburban white shits rioting at Woodstock 99, and saying "because the rioters were white, it wasn't a riot, it was classified as youthful exuberance," which seems incredibly familiar 16 years later.
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Jun 28, 2015 06:23
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It was a great one. Stephen actually agreed with Steven's argument, and Steven broke down crying because he didn't know how to handle not-arguing.
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Jun 28, 2015 21:58
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EasyEW posted:The original Kilborn-era premise was "parody of lovely local news shows", so the field pieces were pretty low stakes, as with this evergreen Beth Littleford classic from 1996. Hah. Kilborn calling someone else a pig. Even if it's a pig. EDIT: INDECISION 2000 HATH STARTED TECHNICALLY IN OCTOBER 1999. EDIT AGAIN: Beth Littleford just said "cooch" on TV. I guess that's legal. I haven't heard the word 'cooch' in quite a while. Is it spelled 'cootch'? Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 28, 2015 |
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Jun 28, 2015 22:23
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That was very weird. I don't know what the Mo Rocca hate is about. All I remember about him is the lisp.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:47
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I think Stacy Grenrock did a piece about puppet porn a few months prior to this guy claiming he has the only puppet porn. ROLL 212!
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Jun 28, 2015 23:53
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I think they were talking about Republican candidates. And when I first turned on Month of Zen, Peter Krause was the guest and he called him KRAUSS. Now he's pronouncing his last name "correctly," which still seems wrong. KRAUZ-uh. Man, just be KRAUSS. And hah, he just made fun of the pronunciation. I forgot about Godstuff. I look forward to Godstuff. ... I forgot this is what Godstuff was. What was the thing where Colbert had a spinning wheel of weird God stories and he would hit a button to stop the wheel? Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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Jun 29, 2015 13:29
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Oh, man, this is uncomfortable, watching Colbert pressure a person into coming out on television. Even though he's the inventor of "gaydar." Also, I totally forgot about Dave Atell on this show, but now I remember. I've been watching this show for a very long time. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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Jun 29, 2015 15:52
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Do we? Just assume everything that comes out of his mouth is stupid rear end in a top hat verbal poo poo-squirts and move on.
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Jun 29, 2015 20:28
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"Presidential Doubtful Pat Buchanan." Nice little throwaway line.
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Jun 30, 2015 04:18
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Last night's "Right Court" segment was written in "Night Court" font. I just wanted a reason to mention "Night Court" again in this thread.
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Jul 1, 2015 13:19
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Here's Indecision. But I remember this day well. I went to bed thinking that Bush had won, angry and surly, then woke up to find out about all the MAYBE NOT WHAT?! business. So I think the main show is a lot of "Well, Bush won," and then the next day was MAYBE NOT WHAT?!
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Jul 1, 2015 16:50
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I forgot... Bob Dole actually did Viagra commercials, didn't he? Bob Dole For Boners.
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Jul 1, 2015 17:35
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I enjoyed that Mo Rocca segment there. Why does everyone hate him?
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Jul 1, 2015 17:45
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Wow. My mom used to work in Monroe. This should be a hoot. I hope he does more of this, as a way of finishing off the big board of Better Know a District.
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Jul 1, 2015 20:12
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