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Veronica Santiago and Neil Estep review Hairspray, Chuck & Larry, and Premonition in this episode of FilmCrunch.Play Video
Thursday January 3, 2008 3:40 pm
The Funniest Shows on Cable
Need a cure for the rerun blues? Forget about network and don’t worry about repeats - if you’ve never seen the show, it’s not a rerun to you. Get acquainted with some of the shows you may not even know about…and in some cases, you might wonder how you ever got along without them.
Cable TV offers plenty of diversion, and sure a lot of shows get repeated. But in the middle of a writers strike while studios scramble to find anything to put on the tube, those obscure (and hilarious) cable shows may just become the saving grace of evening TV watching. Check out four relatively obscure, yet hysterical, cable shows and find out just how fun reruns can be.
Read More MTV, which I believe has given up on music altogether, offers up a shout-out to the old days of Candid Camera with Boiling Points. Take one hidden camera and a few unsuspecting citizens and there’s a TV show - if this was still the 80s. But because it’s MTV, there’s a twist - the unsuspecting citizens are actually going to be pushed to the limit of how much crap they can take. As the clock slowly ticks (toward a predetermined “Boiling Point”) the hidden cameras record people as they are systematically driven crazy by the worker who’s in on the gag. If they make it to the boiling point without totally losing their cool, they win a cool hundred bucks. The show is funny even if it isn’t all that original, and it’s totally worth watching even when there’s no strike on. Comedy Central is all about making people laugh, but nothing does it better than Reno 911. This little show is so good it made it all the way to the big screen (and amazingly, the movie is just as funny as the show). Featuring a crew of completely incompetent cops, Reno 911 takes a look at the lighter side of law enforcement to completely hilarious results. A tribute to sketch comedy, Frank TV on TBS could easily have been a complete miss. A one-man show featuring a slightly tubby star who does voices? It doesn’t sound at all like success - but tune into Frank TV just once and you’ll wind up laughing. His impressions are generally spot-on and his audience interaction shows a truly warm, fun-to-watch personality. E! is still offering up plenty of new reality, but Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood easily outshines it all. New episodes of this one are currently airing, and even if you don’t like rap, hip hop, or Snoop himself you’ll enjoy this clever reality series. It’s funny, it feels very real, and the segments where Snoop Dogg explains his own personal vernacular hold it all together. The best reality twist of all from a gangsta rapper - Snoop Dogg is a tried-and-true family man. Watch the show. Seriously.
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Frank TV? Are you kidding?
He’s wooden and stiff in front of a paid informercial audience that apparently isn’t paid enough to laugh, so they have to pipe in a laugh track. His schtick with an audience member sitting on the couch, on a set that serves no purpose for all it’s living room decor is lame and clunky.
Oh, and let’s not forget the sketches. They stink! He does an Al Pacino. You know what that entails? Al yelling constantly. How original! How about his Madden? Same as it ever was. His Robert Dinero? Lots of shrugging and weird lip action. His Charles Barkley? Dated and repetitious. His Presidents Clinton and Bush? The Clinton stuff is the same collection of stale Bill jokes we’ve all heard a million times, and his portrayal of Bush as dim and incompetent is no more original than every other Bush impersonation.
Look, when you build your sketches around impressions, and the impressions are the joke itself, there is no punchline. Without a punchline, there’s no joke worth airing.
The show’s terrible, and I really wonder at the size of the paycheck you get from TBS for shilling for such a lousy program.
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