TV Diary
1) Weekends At The D.L.
I’ve never been much of a fan of D.L., thought he was the weak link in Kings Of Comedy and a wack standup, but he always comes across smart and honest in interviews, so I thought this show might be decent. His monologues are even worse than his standup, though, especially because his default way of playing off lame jokes that get tepid applause is by saying “you know it’s true!” over and over, which gets really really old when he says it 10 times in the first 5 minutes of the show. The scripted bits seem promising, though, the one with the cop with the meth lab was pretty good. And the looseness of the segments w/ guests is kinda refreshing, letting people drink booze on the set and stuff, except when he brings in Best Week Ever type hacks to make the same damn pop culture wisecracks they do on BWE.
2) Too Late With Adam Corolla
I was kinda curious whether this would be a straight talk show or what, but it turns out to be more or less a replica of Loveline minus Dr. Drew. They even take calls for much of the show most nights, although people ask more general questions, not just sex advice. I think Adam is generally pretty funny when he's just bullshitting and ad-libbing, though, although he kinda suffers from not having Dr. Drew as a straight man to bounce off of. The episode where the guest was Matthew Lesko was pretty funny, though.
3) A Current Affair
Well, you already know.
4) Trailer Fabulous
I'm kinda fascinated by this s how, conceptually it's a hokey Pimp My Ride type hip MTV variation on fix-em-up TLC shows but with a bizarre cast led by some weird white rapper who was signed to So So Def and his album only came out in Europe. It's pretty funny sometimes, especially when they intercut multiple flubbed takes of the same scene or line, like when the gay guy that looks like Joe Dirt kept mispronouncing Ashton Kutcher's name over and over even when people would show him how to pronounce it right.
1) Weekends At The D.L.
I’ve never been much of a fan of D.L., thought he was the weak link in Kings Of Comedy and a wack standup, but he always comes across smart and honest in interviews, so I thought this show might be decent. His monologues are even worse than his standup, though, especially because his default way of playing off lame jokes that get tepid applause is by saying “you know it’s true!” over and over, which gets really really old when he says it 10 times in the first 5 minutes of the show. The scripted bits seem promising, though, the one with the cop with the meth lab was pretty good. And the looseness of the segments w/ guests is kinda refreshing, letting people drink booze on the set and stuff, except when he brings in Best Week Ever type hacks to make the same damn pop culture wisecracks they do on BWE.
2) Too Late With Adam Corolla
I was kinda curious whether this would be a straight talk show or what, but it turns out to be more or less a replica of Loveline minus Dr. Drew. They even take calls for much of the show most nights, although people ask more general questions, not just sex advice. I think Adam is generally pretty funny when he's just bullshitting and ad-libbing, though, although he kinda suffers from not having Dr. Drew as a straight man to bounce off of. The episode where the guest was Matthew Lesko was pretty funny, though.
3) A Current Affair
Well, you already know.
4) Trailer Fabulous
I'm kinda fascinated by this s how, conceptually it's a hokey Pimp My Ride type hip MTV variation on fix-em-up TLC shows but with a bizarre cast led by some weird white rapper who was signed to So So Def and his album only came out in Europe. It's pretty funny sometimes, especially when they intercut multiple flubbed takes of the same scene or line, like when the gay guy that looks like Joe Dirt kept mispronouncing Ashton Kutcher's name over and over even when people would show him how to pronounce it right.
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