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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]


Fred Pete - Feb 18, 2014 6:26:18 am PST #7071 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.

Any other fans of Comedy Central's @ Midnight? It's kind of a second cousin to Whose Line Is It Anyway? Three comedians improvise to the latest weirdness in social media.

Example: Amazon review pans Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but the reviewer clearly doesn't know anything. (For example, reviewer talks about a totally lame cover of that song from The Wonder Years.) Comedians, write a response to that reviewer. (Also popular: Here's a weird Craigslist ad. Respond as someone interested.)


-t - Feb 18, 2014 6:31:31 am PST #7072 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The first couple of minutes of that show up at the end of my Colbert recordings, and they seem amusing enough. The ads with Chris Hardwick saying "Colbert Nation, please don't change the channel, watch our show" crack me up.


Fred Pete - Feb 18, 2014 7:14:13 am PST #7073 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.

Hardwick is a good game show host. He keeps the show moving, and he's funny on his own without overshadowing the comedians.


-t - Feb 25, 2014 6:08:58 pm PST #7074 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, HIMYM certainly made me want some bacon.


Fred Pete - Feb 26, 2014 4:33:38 am PST #7075 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.

As usual in Glee, the music was far better than the so-called plot. My highlight -- Artie and Tina covering En Vogue. It shouldn't have worked, but it did. (Bonus points for understanding "Every Breath You Take" better than the average wedding planner, even if it didn't quite work in context.)


-t - Feb 27, 2014 7:32:59 pm PST #7076 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ah, Community into Parks and Rec, my favorite. Solid.


JZ - Mar 05, 2014 7:31:42 am PST #7077 of 8624
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Re the latest HIMYM: so, aside from having actual rather than theoretical children, Ted and The Mother are Carl and Ellie? It's probably a sign of having rewatched Shadowlands and UP way too many times, but I... might actually be okay with that. Heartbroken, but okay.

And if it led to the final scene of the entire series being Ted and the kids and a golden retriever sitting on the curb outside a Fenton's, eating ice cream and saying, "Red one. Blue one. Gray one. SQUIRREL!" it would be utterly worth it. I might never stop crying, but since I'm kind of a crybaby anyway that wouldn't be a huge difference.


sj - Mar 05, 2014 3:06:31 pm PST #7078 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

My bet is the final scene will be Marshall, Lily, Ted, and Robin sitting on the porch in their old age.


lisah - Mar 06, 2014 5:00:07 pm PST #7079 of 8624
Punishingly Intricate

What's that a reference to, JZ?


JZ - Mar 08, 2014 5:09:09 pm PST #7080 of 8624
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

lisah (sorry for the delay!), there's been a fan theory floating around for a few years that the Mother is actually dead and that's why Future!Ted is telling the story of How He Met Her. I never gave it a speck of credence until this last episode, but now... not so sure. When she says, "What kind of mother would miss her daughter's wedding?" and Ted gets choked up and she grabs his hand and croons that it's okay, okay, and then later talks about life only moving in one direction and about just leaving the serious things unspoken and enjoying each other's company when things get too intense, it begins to seem possible.

And... I don't know. Every happy love story, every happily ever after, must inevitably in the very long run end in one partner's death and the other's living on. It's something Joy talks to Jack about, repeatedly, in Shadowlands, and that Carl finds out much later Ellie thought and worried about for him in Up. I can't quite see a network sitcom angling for syndication immortality going there, but after the most recent episode I can't quite see it as totally implausible.

And I can't, quite, see it as such a betrayal as some fans seem to; a solid decade of married joy producing two living, healthy kids (who are emotionally capable, even as eye-rolly teenagers, of sitting and listening to a parent's endless stories), and one partner surviving to tell the stories and keep living forward doesn't feel to me like a total audience-hating betrayal.