August 15, 2007

• The what now? *returns to eating sandwich*
• Oh yeah, that thing. snurk.
• Oh yeah, that thing. snurk. I think you mean "the most dangerous threat ever to the liberal hegemony in America". C'mon guys, now we can get back to undermining traditional values, spitting on the troops, and advancing the gay agenda without fear of reprisals!
• You couldn't skewer a cube of tofu with material this dull.
• Someone should put together a retrospective montage of youtube clips. Probably me, but you know, lazy and apathetic.
• lazy and apathetic Typical librul.
• Typical librul. Quiet, I'm doing drugs.
• It was consistently winning its timeslot. Why would they get rid of it? Is it too expensive to produce?
• I watched it twice. I saw sketches and bits about how funny sexual harassment and foreigners are and how ugly Hillary Clinton was. With comedy gold like that, how did it fail???
• It was consistently winning its timeslot. Why would they get rid of it? Is it too expensive to produce? It was winning its time-slot, but not by much. When you figure that its time-slot was 10p on a Sunday night, you can imagine that the programmers were hoping for a massive trouncing of the competition, and that the show simply didn't deliver. Plus, the critics, liberal and conservative, really hated it.
• From what I hear it was pretty much a live-action version of Mallad Fillmore. As is pretty much all conservo "humor." :)
• Well, Fes is pretty funny.
• Fes is just a pretend conservo.
• Since the days of the court jester, political humor works best when it's those in power who are being mocked, not doing the mocking. But much, much more importantly, the show simply wasn't funny.
• Yeah, you didn't have to have ESP to see this coming from a mile away.
• Fuck, I thought it was quite the shock it got picked up in the first place after that abomination of a first episode. I figured it was the same sort of bloody minded "we won't change, YOU will" that's keeping Gonzales in office.
• The saddest part was the end of each episode where you saw just how far Dennis Miller has slid. With his easy jokes and dated references it is just sad to see him doing such bad material. He's the new Chevy Chase.
• Don't insult Chevy Chase. At least he didn't pretend to be smart.
• Comedy. Fools. Gold.
• The thing about court jesting on teevee these days is not so much the powerless mocking the powerful as two hands of the same monster bashing each other. The democrats and the republicans are the same basic bunch of crooks, funded by powerful stateless corporations. Jon Stewart, to take the biggest example, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Viacom Corporation, which differs from NewsCorp only trivially. A competent bunch of comics taking on the democrats and the left could easily do brilliant work; heck, they are quite the laughingstock all by themselves. If they do miraculously manage not to fuck up their 2008 chances, I shall be glad to see the democrats back in power. We can then shine a few spot lights at the mess in their own backyards. Maybe P. J. O'Rourke will start writing again. Show the current gaggle of talentless "funny" people how to write a proper sentence.
• PJ O'Rourke? Screw that, bring back Hunter T.
• If they do miraculously manage not to fuck up their 2008 chances, I shall be glad to see the democrats back in power. Sad, but true. It's theirs to lose again. Take my election - please!
• The other thing about Dennis Miller and Chevy Chase is that they are doing the same tired, know it all, frat boy schtick and (hopefully) your tastes have matured since 1982. I like watching old SNL routines as much as the next guy, but now most routines don't seem so much cutting edge as snarky and mean spirited.
• I thought it was mean-spirited then too. And IMMO that's what's wrong with Simpsons >9th season. I mean heck, let's get this derail started already!
• (hopefully) your tastes have matured since 1982. Not a bit.