Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

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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]


JZ - Oct 04, 2014 1:31:17 pm PDT #7209 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.

I didn't know there was a show with her! After HIMYM I would watch her do anything (especially if they can contrive to have her sing some Piaf while doing it). Anything except breed a brood and then die mostly offscreen after about eleven seconds of exposition so that her grieving spouse can scurry off to rekindle a romance nobody but the showrunners still cares about. Seeing her do that once was more than enough.

Not that I'm still bitter about it or anything. Heaven forfend!


Pix - Oct 04, 2014 1:41:05 pm PDT #7210 of 8624
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Is anyone else watching Black-ish? I'm really enjoying it.


sj - Oct 04, 2014 2:32:47 pm PDT #7211 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm loving black-ish.

I watched the first episode of that show with the mother from HIMYM. It was pretty good and cute. Not mindblowingly anything yet but enjoyable enough.

A to Z is the most adorable show I have seen in a long time and not sickeningly sweet in a way I usually find annoying.

Selfie needs a Colonel Pickering character and an end goal (at least for the season) to really do the whole My Fair Lady thing properly, but I didn't find it as horrible as many people seemed to.

I have Bad Judge on the DVR but haven't watched it yet.


shrift - Oct 06, 2014 5:49:01 pm PDT #7212 of 8624
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Brooklyn Nine-Nine! Everything Terry does is magic!


JenP - Oct 07, 2014 7:01:09 am PDT #7213 of 8624

A to Z is the most adorable show I have seen in a long time and not sickeningly sweet in a way I usually find annoying.

Agree. I thought it might be too cute for me, but it wasn't. I liked the characters, which is about 95% of the battle these days.

Is anyone else watching Black-ish? I'm really enjoying it.

I'm loving black-ish.

Yes! Particularly liked the running gag with the two youngest kids on the last episode.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine! Everything Terry does is magic!

True words.

Community: Sad Yvette has to leave. I'll miss Shirley for lots of reasons, but among them, she has some of the best, subtle throw-away-line deliveries.


Strix - Oct 08, 2014 8:46:10 am PDT #7214 of 8624
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Brooklyn Nine-Nine! Everything Terry does is magic!

HOMG, yes! I missed it Sunday, because I went to bed early with a monster cold, so I just caught it last night. We came it late to the B99 game, because we don't usually do sit-coms -- though D watches Community -- and it is screamingly funny.


Frankenbuddha - Oct 10, 2014 4:56:47 pm PDT #7215 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

OK, having read 3/4 of Gone Girl, and already knowing the very end, watching this Daily Show where they have Jason Jones hosting and Samantha Bee as a reporter makes me think they could do the absolute PERFECT VERSION of the book that it may deserve (since I'm disliking it more and more, but, damn, it is a well written piece of provocation). I think I'm going to be substituting those two for Ben and Rosamund when I go see the movie, because I will see it (fuck you Fincher but you are talented).

Probably should x-post this in movies, but it was the Daily Show stuff that had me on this track.


Frankenbuddha - Oct 11, 2014 4:03:41 pm PDT #7216 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

OMG, just watched Carol Burnett on the Colbert show and it struck me both as, wow, she is still on, like seriously on, and I really miss seeing her show. That was one of those comedy shows I took for granted and never thought of it as definitive to me like Python, or the Muppet Show, but I was watching it around the same time and I really need to go back and watch some of that.


Rick - Oct 20, 2014 11:07:16 am PDT #7217 of 8624

Took my kids to the University Homecoming parade Friday, and there was Professor Buzz Hicks, I mean Jonathan Banks, riding in a convertible and waving.

Turned out he was visiting the Theater Department and congenially agreed to be in the parade.

There were no visiting Neuroscientists, Epidemiologists, or Mathematicians in the parade, but I think that it would be a good tradition to start.


-t - Oct 25, 2014 3:04:10 pm PDT #7218 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Shonda Rhimes guesting on The Mindy Project for an episode featuring love life drama for all the doctors, kinda genius.

BTW, nobody at work seemed to recognize my Greendale Community College T-shirt, but I got the Sr. Director of Operations to join me in a "Go Human Beings!" so that was fun.