ZOMG ARCHER.
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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]
shrift - Mar 18, 2011 5:29:19 pm PDT #3752 of 8625
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 5:40:51 pm PDT #3753 of 8625
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ZOMG ARCHER.
Right?
One of the commentors at AVClub noted that it played like the rake gag with Sideshow Bob. They just kept repeating it until it went from possibly funny, to funny, to not funny, to brutally funny.
Also, Emmett and I are so thoroughly infected with Aisha Tyler's line readings that all of our negatives and affirmatives sound like her: "Nyooope!" "Yes I Do!" "Yup"
shrift - Mar 18, 2011 5:49:24 pm PDT #3754 of 8625
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, I totally have started saying "Nyooope!" and "Yuuuuuup" with a hard p at the end.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2011 6:20:43 pm PDT #3755 of 8625
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My sister indtroduced me to Bob's Burgers, an animated comedy on Fox. Now, i dislike fox as much as the next liberary Whedonista, but it's hysterical. The first episode was a little offputting, but it grew on me like Portland moss with Kristin Schaal's dulcit voice.
Sweet Jesus, we LOVE this show. Did I not pimp it here? Maybe just Facebook. For the first few episodes I was just in it for the kids (especially Louise, who is AWESOME, and I have -- very seriously -- started looking for a bunny-ear hat of my own), but around the taxicab/Tina's birthday party episode, I realized I love them all. Even the mom with her annoying voice.
That show is twisted as hell and funny as fuck. I expected it to be cancelled by now.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 6:29:21 pm PDT #3756 of 8625
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I guess we should note that the lead on Archer, H. John Benjamin, is also on Bob's Burgers.
Also, I somehow have a song about ecstasy by H. John Benjamin. (You know, the song that goes, "This is so fucking great!" with the background singers chirping "This. Is. So fucking. Great.")
Tom Scola - Mar 18, 2011 6:32:25 pm PDT #3757 of 8625
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2011 6:32:30 pm PDT #3758 of 8625
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I guess we should note that the lead on Archer, H. John Benjamin, is also on Bob's Burgers.
I am a non-cable-having cheap-ass. However, I hear there are these nifty things called DVDs, so perhaps we should check them out.
He also did Home Movies on Cartoon Network back in the day (for all "back in the day" values of >5-ish years), which I loved. But man, Bob's Burgers is FUCKED UP. It is pleasing to me.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 6:33:49 pm PDT #3759 of 8625
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
However, I hear there are these nifty things called DVDs, so perhaps we should check them out.
Archer is the funniest thing in the world right now. So...get it.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2011 6:38:49 pm PDT #3760 of 8625
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Archer is the funniest thing in the world right now.
Are you watching Bob's Burgers?
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 6:40:35 pm PDT #3761 of 8625
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Are you watching Bob's Burgers?
No. Is it funnier than Archer?
Time for a cross show challenge! Winner? Us!