ABC orders a pilot for an hour-long comedy/detective show starring Penn & Teller: [link]
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2009 2:15:02 pm PDT #1519 of 8624
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Polter-Cow - Sep 18, 2009 2:20:09 pm PDT #1520 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, that could be pretty hilarious.
DavidS - Sep 18, 2009 5:34:06 pm PDT #1521 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay, that could be pretty hilarious.
Did you ever see their movie?
They sit around drinking Yoo Hoo and listening to the Velvet Underground. They do an expose on "psychic surgery" and then they get killed.
Polter-Cow - Sep 18, 2009 6:20:30 pm PDT #1522 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did you ever see their movie?
Nope. But I've enjoyed their schtick.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 19, 2009 12:35:23 pm PDT #1523 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
They sit around drinking Yoo Hoo and listening to the Velvet Underground. They do an expose on "psychic surgery" and then they get killed.
Don't forget the "All Shemp" Three Stooges festival.
Saw that movie in a theater with a bunch of like-minded friends (and none of us at the time could afford a ticket to actually see their act) and we were laughing harder than anyone in the theater. Sadly, the movie tanked BO wise.
Hard to believe it's the same Arthur Penn, but I guess he kept his hipster credentials flying in the long run.
megan walker - Sep 22, 2009 5:44:34 am PDT #1524 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So, I missed most of last season of HIMYM, is there a semi-reasonable hand-wavy reason why Ted could possibly be teaching at Columbia?
Jesse - Sep 22, 2009 6:10:40 am PDT #1525 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There actually is! [link]
If you're Ted Mosby, isn't bad enough to be standing there in the rain -- holding a bright yellow umbrella -- the first time you run into the person who left you at the altar. Oh no, if you're Ted, your ex- is going to have her baby-daddy, Tony, with her and he's going to pity you. After their chance encounter, Tony comes to Ted to makes amends. His family is influential, and he wants to set Ted up with a job as an architecture professor at Columbia.
megan walker - Sep 22, 2009 7:23:33 am PDT #1526 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
BTW, is that our Cindy writing that?
megan walker - Sep 22, 2009 7:28:11 am PDT #1527 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Given the number of people that (while I was looking for a tenure-track job) said to me in all honesty "Why don't you just teach at Columbia?", I suppose that explanation seems reasonable enough.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2009 7:28:12 am PDT #1528 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Indeed it is. Edit -- it is our Cindy. It is only a reasonable explanation in TV-land.