I don't like The Colbert Show and hate those segments on TDS.

I love The Office, but there are times when I have to fast-forward through the really humiliating Michael bits. Sometimes Dwight, too.

I have an embarrassment/humiliation squick.

Eyp. Oddly, I can watch Ugly Betty, though it is rough at times. As the character has grown on me, I'm actually less likely to cringe, maybe because she's coming off as less a victim, I don't know. Unless she is dealing with Walter. And then I just want to beat him up.

Apropos of this discussion, what was the British show that Comedy Central was showing back in 2002-2003 - it had things like the guy answering his giant cell phone and yelling the conversation in the middle of art shows, random appearances of a bunch of people in bunny suits sprinting down London streets, people waiting for the elevator only to have it open on to a guy having a full dinner in said elevator, things like that? Does anyone else remember that?

I love The Office, but there are times when I have to fast-forward through the really humiliating Michael bits. Sometimes Dwight, too

Shrift is me. Well, except she is a lot cooler.

One of the worst "watch from the hall" moments for me is on Freaks and Geeks, when (memfault) sings Lady to Lindsay. AND worse, when he sings Lady L to his friend. But this is still funny to me, despite being embarrassment humor. Jackass and Punk'd just make me feel horrible, and I don't really even find them funny.

I also can't stand it when Stewart and Colbert pull the same stunts on their shows.

Oh, god yes. I don't care how clever the perpetrators are, or how dumb or venal the subjects. I just don't care. I so rarely get defensive about humanity in general, but that brings it out. It's intellectual bullying, to me.

I don't have any interest in Borat, also because SBC has never drawn me. I believe it when I'm told he's amazingly talented. I just don't find him entertaining, and that's way more important to me.

I have less sympathy for interviewees from Colbert/TDS because neither of those shows hide who they are when they set the interviews up. (The man-on-the-street release forms are signed after the fact, but they also clearly state that they are from Comedy Central and the name of the show.)

SBC, OTOH, is shady as hell when it comes to his subjects. The Borat production team had an unbelievably intricate system for making sure that people could not track him back to the studio, and for ensuring that they thought it was a real Kazakh documentary. (Which makes me wonder exactly how legal the release forms were, but that's for the Fox lawyers to figure out.)

I have an embarrassment/humiliation squick.

::flounces on the fainting couch in the embarrassment/humiliation squick corner::

No 'nad whacks, ladders to the skull, oblivious interviewee humor for me.

Eyp. Oddly, I can watch Ugly Betty, though it is rough at times. As the character has grown on me, I'm actually less likely to cringe, maybe because she's coming off as less a victim, I don't know. Unless she is dealing with Walter. And then I just want to beat him up.

sarameg is me wrt Ugly Betty. At work and at home it doesn't squick because she is so capable. However, I am getting sick of her apologizing to Walter everytime Walter is a jerk to her.

Which makes me wonder exactly how legal the release forms were,

Prolly about as legal as the release forms for Girls Gone Wild.