Sorry about the misleading blog title, just trying to get more hits on my site.
THE SARAH SILVERMAN SHOW (COM)
Sarah Silverman wrapped her season in a story that really pushed her character's casual hatefulness, had her sleeping with God, then ignoring him in the morning, which lead to God screaming "Sorry for liking you!" Although my favorite sequence in the episode was the extended fart joke at brunch.
For that scene, go here:
Too weird to explain - but hilarious with a perfect ending. Sarah is particularly good at making fun of everyday small talk and expressions. I'll miss this show when it's gone - hopefully it'll be back very soon. In the meantime, if you haven't caught it, catch extended clips and show extras here:
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_sarah_silverman_program/index.jhtml
Grade: A +
AMERICAN IDOL (FOX)
Shocks - by eliminating 2 great contestants. I can't believe that Sanjaya kid is still around - he's terrible and I love every second of it.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (DVD)
The weakest link in the Chris Guest mockumentary cannon - this is the first of these films that felt completely forced, lame and....kind of a bad parody of mockumentary. Like a mock-mockumentary. In any case - it's not without a few laughs - but what's the old saying "Like a Hollywood party - you wait around for hours for a few good lines." Something like that. Ricky Gervais barely registers. Eugene Levy should be tarred and feathered for his unfunny agent shtick, and Christopher Guest's director and everybody's "cleverness" at improv come together to make this one really bad film.
Grade: D -
HOWARD TV:
DICE RETURNS AGAIN! (IN DEMAND)Andrew Dice Clay came on, fought with his wife, opened up - and I'm starting to believe maybe he will play Giant Stadium again. Howard and the gang and Dice together have never been funnier. And Dice transforming in front of eyes into a real human being was great.
Grade: A
In the same show, Sal dons a GARY mask and does a ridiculous dance that was inexplicably hilarious.
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (THE CW)
The girls are as catty as ever, Tyra is literally over the top insane - and this show has a formula that just can't lose. I like the cocky girl who cries and then brags when she wins - then rats everyone out for not liking her - she looks like a junkie and she has to get voted off soon (I think her name is JAZLEEN?) - And the Russian girl who doesn't know how to take criticism (literally - she thinks it's always a compliment) is a hoot.
Grade: B
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_sarah_silverman_program/index.jhtml
Grade: A +
AMERICAN IDOL (FOX)
Shocks - by eliminating 2 great contestants. I can't believe that Sanjaya kid is still around - he's terrible and I love every second of it.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (DVD)
The weakest link in the Chris Guest mockumentary cannon - this is the first of these films that felt completely forced, lame and....kind of a bad parody of mockumentary. Like a mock-mockumentary. In any case - it's not without a few laughs - but what's the old saying "Like a Hollywood party - you wait around for hours for a few good lines." Something like that. Ricky Gervais barely registers. Eugene Levy should be tarred and feathered for his unfunny agent shtick, and Christopher Guest's director and everybody's "cleverness" at improv come together to make this one really bad film.
Grade: D -
HOWARD TV:
DICE RETURNS AGAIN! (IN DEMAND)Andrew Dice Clay came on, fought with his wife, opened up - and I'm starting to believe maybe he will play Giant Stadium again. Howard and the gang and Dice together have never been funnier. And Dice transforming in front of eyes into a real human being was great.
Grade: A
In the same show, Sal dons a GARY mask and does a ridiculous dance that was inexplicably hilarious.
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (THE CW)
The girls are as catty as ever, Tyra is literally over the top insane - and this show has a formula that just can't lose. I like the cocky girl who cries and then brags when she wins - then rats everyone out for not liking her - she looks like a junkie and she has to get voted off soon (I think her name is JAZLEEN?) - And the Russian girl who doesn't know how to take criticism (literally - she thinks it's always a compliment) is a hoot.
Grade: B
HOUSE (FOX)
House has cancer and Dave Mathews stars as a man with half a brain. Only by the end of the hour, the plot twists completely, and we have the lingering image of House greedily grabbing Cuddy's ass. Another stellar outing and a really twisty story.
Grade: A
WHY WE FIGHT (MAX)
First off, I have to apologize to Adam B. - you loaned me this dvd about 2 years ago - not only did I not watch it, I lost it. However, earlier that month, Wendy W. borrowed my MARCH OF THE PENGUINS dvd and never returned it - so unfortunately, you had to pay the price.
So, the movie turned up on Cinemax last year and I finally decided to take it off my Tivo and watch it. This is a great documentary that actually does explain somewhat why we fight - the financial incentives involved and the link between Dick Cheney and Haliburton are both documented and commented on at length as well as exploring the relationship between the U.S. and Sadamm Husein, who was looked at by our country as a friend for a long time - this movie asserts - until we needed the fossil fuel his country harbored so we turned Sadamm into a villain (it probably wasn't that hard) to suit our oil needs. I have no idea what the veracity of these statements are - but it's a lot of food for thought, and if this documentary speaks the truth, we are all in trouble.
Grade: A
THE WEDDING BELLS (FOX)
The latest David E. Kelly piece of shit. I don't know who would watch this. I can't imagine who would find it funny. It reminded me of the old Stallone movie, OSCAR - a lot of comic "energy" and not a single laugh, insight or....this was really bad. Bad drama is one thing, unfunny frantic comedy is embarrassing. What the fuck were they thinking?
Grade: F
SOUTH PARK (COM)
The latest season opened with a funny episode that used the N word a record amount of times for an animated half-hour - and how often do you find a show in its 9th season that still has the complete interest of it's creators - almost never.
Grade: A
JUDGE JUDY (SYND)
Don't ask me why I started watching these - but it's great to see Judge Judy yelling at idiots.
Grade: B
AMERICAN IDOL (Fox)
The thrill is truly gone. A bore from start to finish. They really need to start singing some songs that people actually know and like. But there just seems to be a real....lameness to this season.
Grade: C -
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (CBS)
This show has just the right mix of David Spade and Puddy from Seinfeld - now if they could just get rid of the central couple - who both graduated from the school of over acting... Still, when Puddy (I know that's not his name on this show - but that's who he's essentially playing) says to Spade, "How old is she?" and Spade returns with "You better call Jack Bauer because she's 24!" - this can be a pretty funny show.
Grade: B
The thrill is truly gone. A bore from start to finish. They really need to start singing some songs that people actually know and like. But there just seems to be a real....lameness to this season.
Grade: C -
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (CBS)
This show has just the right mix of David Spade and Puddy from Seinfeld - now if they could just get rid of the central couple - who both graduated from the school of over acting... Still, when Puddy (I know that's not his name on this show - but that's who he's essentially playing) says to Spade, "How old is she?" and Spade returns with "You better call Jack Bauer because she's 24!" - this can be a pretty funny show.
Grade: B
ARTIE LANGE'S BEER LEAGUE (DVD)
I finally finished this and think I might've been too harsh in my initial review. This is actually a pretty funny movie that has many amateurish moments to be sure, but also has a great gift of a comedian writing very funny jokes for his actors. While the direction here leaves much to be desired - Artie is really appealing, his romance actually plays better than the baseball segment (Anthony DeSando acts as if he were taught acting by spastic monkeys) - but between the good naturedness of the movies, some of the REALLY dirty jokes, and the great extras including a terrific commentary from Artie (that the Stern show should use sound bites from as Artie waxes philosophically on this film that made a hundred bux at the box office) - it's really not bad and a good diverting comedy - particularly the writing. So I revise this slightly:
Grade: B
Remember the MAGNOLIA moment in the finale to NIP/TUCK last year? When all the characters starting singing along to a tune about their wacky situations? As crazy a scene as it was - you have to admit the song was da bomb. It's called BRIGHTER DISCONTENT by The Submarines. Here it is, sans NIP/TUCK for your enjoyment:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zsOqN8-9NgI
Jim Steinman playing his own 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T BAD on the piano for CLASSIC ALBUMShttp://youtube.com/watch?v=0JJn40lCX54
If you missed it, Prince's halftime show from the Superbowl - here he is at the end of it doing PURPLE RAIN:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EffEF7fNLTQ
And here's part 1 of the Prince halftime show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjDlGgzy0Q&NR
Have a great weekend.
re: For Your Consideration - I totally agree. What a disappointment. I only laughed a handful of times.
ReplyDeleteYeah - I was watching with The Girl and it was kind of shocking how unfunny it was - we were like - looking at each other - ready to love it - and it just got worse and worse. We finally turned it off - did we miss anything?
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