what you should be watching
21 June 2006
Do yourself a favor and either tivo or watch "Dog Bites Man" on Comedy Central tonight at 10:30.
I don’t want to hype it up too much. My whole philosophy in life is that you should manipulate those around you to expect nothing or the worst, so that when they get even a lil’ somethin’ somethin’, they are more than pleasantly surprised. Rarely are high expectations met or exceeded. So when I constantly refer to my penis as a light switch, wine cork, hershey kiss, or acorn and one of my vict-, I mean, ladies sees my bird, she’s happy that it’s not as small as she was expecting (close, but not quite). Though I guess it doesn’t really matter, since by the time by bird comes out she’s usually so drunk she can’t see it pressed up against her bedroom window anyway.
Regardless, this is a dynamite show. I tivo’ed the first episode and watched it just before the second aired last week (it’s on Wednesdays at 10:30pm) and was blown away. Pretty much every guy I know lists "Anchorman" as one of his top ten favorites movies. Likewise, every man, woman, and child I know lists "Ali G" as one of their top five favorite TV shows.
While it’s not as good as either of those (c’mon – how can it be?), it has elements of both (remember, don’t want high expectations). For those unfamiliar with the premise, at the beginning of the show it states that a documentary crew followed around a news team to see how news is made. Now while the news team (the reporter, director, producer, and PA) are actors, the subjects of their news reports are real people. For example, in the second episode the news team sits for a seminar on racial sensitivity, given to them by an unsuspecting expert on the subject. They proceed to toy with him, asking ridiculous questions, leading to embarrassing moments. My favorite question during the seminar came from the producer, Tilly (who is smoking hot in an "angry bitch" type of way), who asked if she was racist because she had a dream in which she was having sex with a black man and he had a stereotypical large penis, but then during the dream she learned that he was the Dean of Harvard Law School, hopefully evening out her racism. Just absolutely gloriously retarded.
I can’t really do it justice on here because the beauty of the show is in its improvisation and dangerous jokes and I don’t want to give any more away, but please, watch this show. There are a lot of TV shows that suck that stay on television because assholes keep watching them. Rare is the TV comedy that is legitimately, laugh out loud funny. This is one of them. You will like it.
I look forward to getting your "Thank you" emails tomorrow. And I need some, after the beating I took over the "engagement."
I don’t want to hype it up too much. My whole philosophy in life is that you should manipulate those around you to expect nothing or the worst, so that when they get even a lil’ somethin’ somethin’, they are more than pleasantly surprised. Rarely are high expectations met or exceeded. So when I constantly refer to my penis as a light switch, wine cork, hershey kiss, or acorn and one of my vict-, I mean, ladies sees my bird, she’s happy that it’s not as small as she was expecting (close, but not quite). Though I guess it doesn’t really matter, since by the time by bird comes out she’s usually so drunk she can’t see it pressed up against her bedroom window anyway.
Regardless, this is a dynamite show. I tivo’ed the first episode and watched it just before the second aired last week (it’s on Wednesdays at 10:30pm) and was blown away. Pretty much every guy I know lists "Anchorman" as one of his top ten favorites movies. Likewise, every man, woman, and child I know lists "Ali G" as one of their top five favorite TV shows.
While it’s not as good as either of those (c’mon – how can it be?), it has elements of both (remember, don’t want high expectations). For those unfamiliar with the premise, at the beginning of the show it states that a documentary crew followed around a news team to see how news is made. Now while the news team (the reporter, director, producer, and PA) are actors, the subjects of their news reports are real people. For example, in the second episode the news team sits for a seminar on racial sensitivity, given to them by an unsuspecting expert on the subject. They proceed to toy with him, asking ridiculous questions, leading to embarrassing moments. My favorite question during the seminar came from the producer, Tilly (who is smoking hot in an "angry bitch" type of way), who asked if she was racist because she had a dream in which she was having sex with a black man and he had a stereotypical large penis, but then during the dream she learned that he was the Dean of Harvard Law School, hopefully evening out her racism. Just absolutely gloriously retarded.
I can’t really do it justice on here because the beauty of the show is in its improvisation and dangerous jokes and I don’t want to give any more away, but please, watch this show. There are a lot of TV shows that suck that stay on television because assholes keep watching them. Rare is the TV comedy that is legitimately, laugh out loud funny. This is one of them. You will like it.
I look forward to getting your "Thank you" emails tomorrow. And I need some, after the beating I took over the "engagement."
