Today in my paper journal I made a list of reasons why I thought that Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn failed. (the last episode of the series airs next Thursday). Any more suggestions?
I knew the show has regulars, but they because too regular. It would be the same eight people or so every week in the last six months or so the show was on the air. They only had like four different guests a month.
Wrong time slot. Everybody goes to bed after The Daily Show or flips the channel. I think the show would have done better before Daily Show.
For a few months this spring/summer, they made the panelists stand up for the first ten or so minutes of the show. It looked a little ... off? I know those guys are stand up comedians, but they looked like they were spaced too far apart from Colin, and it was as though they were trying to play baseball in an apartment living room.
Comedy Central overhyped the show too much last year. There was like four clip shows, two stand up specials with the regulars, they treated this show like it was Chappele's show (overated in its own rights), when it wasn't.
Am I wrong, or did the big names stop coming? When the show first started, Colin had a lot of big names
The only Daily Show People invited were Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Mo Rocca (who only said two words the 22 minutes he was on the show), and Stephen Colbert. Why didn't they invite Ed Helms or Rob Corddry or Samantha Bee? Or any former TDS people--no, I take that back, Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead was on the show a few times, and wasn't Brian Unger and Beth Littleford on the show once or twice? Maybe not Beth.I was yearning and yearning to see Helms and Corddry on Tough Crowd and they never made it. Now the show's over.
For more, one of my blog friends; Max wrote something about Tough Crowd when it premiered on Comedy Central as a regular series back in March of 2003:
Has anybody seen the new "Holiday Spiced Pepsi"? They started to sell it at my store today, and I bought a couple of bottles (one for lunch and one for the ride home), and it tastes like lemon & cinnamon Pepsi.
Does anybody think that Comedy Central's "Drawn Together" looks retarded just by watching the ads? The animation is so bad it makes my eyes hurt.
I chickened out again on asking "chef" out. That makes the what? The sixth Wednesday I've chickened out?
round 10:30 yesterday morning, the phone near the floral desk (at work, of course) was ringing off the hook, so I answer it. "Produce!" says a twangy voice. It was like being the tenth caller in a radio station contest. It was my old bullshit buddy at The Fresh Market; Rhett. So we talked a bit, just like the old days---old days being two months ago.
Tomorrow I have to go to work and bag peppymint puff candy for the holiday displays.
For my money, the worst show on television today is Eight Simple Rules. My mom watches that piece of crap, and the equivalent to that show is a Family Circus Sunday Strip.
In other news, I have my first Saturday off tomorrow. I'm so excited. I've told everybody in the house to not answer the phone. I'm going to go to Target to buy some sleeppants, and then I'm going to the ABC store to get lots of bottles of small booze.
One of the cashiers at my store on the chef: "Did you see him squeezing those melons!"
I found Pepsi One at the commissary today! I thought they stopped making that stuff or they're phasing it out. They probably are, its gonna be like Crystal Pepsi, in a few months the cans will be gone, then the liter bottles, then the six packs of the 24 oz bottles. I just wanted to buy the stuff because I hadn't had it since ninth grade. I remember my high school principal; Mr. Baker used to drink that stuff like it was going out of style. Wow, Mr. Baker, when he talked you felt like you were the only person in the room.
Something I told a live journal friend (because she brought up little kid shows):
I only watched Barney a few times when I was 9 (when it was real popular) just because I wanted to see what it was all about, and I felt really sorry for the older kids on the show (the show took place at a after school center, right?) and there were all these little kindgergarden and 1st graders and then there was two sixth graders in the program too? I felt so sorry for them. You know they still get made fun of today for that.
*= Around that time, there was this ad that used to come on for Time Life Video Barney tapes, and I still know the whole ad by heart because they showed it all the time, and last year when Melissa sent me some of her old Mystery Science Theter 3000 tapes, I found that ad on one of the tapes.
Jon's on the cover of TV Guide next week. It's just basically the same thing we've heard 3 billion times, that more young people are getting news from shows like TDS. zzz.
Sorry about the address thing being blurred out on the scan of the cover. I hate it that TV Guide prints your address on the cover now, instead of using the sticky label that you could easily take off. My mom told me that when I was a little kid the first thing I'd do when we got the TV Guide was take that address label off. She also told me that I used to collect TV Guides when I was three, but my collection got so big that she threw it away. She's kicking herself for it now.
"i hate sleeping - no, i love sleeping actually. i hate dreaming. it takes effort. i lay down in a bed and it's comfortable, and all the sudden i have to build a go-kart with my ex-landlord.."
Every time I'd wake up and fall back asleep last night/early this morning, I'd have this fantasy where I'd finish closing the store and I would go upstairs to this room where the store keeps old files and logs and stuff and there would be this small bed with a nice big pillow waiting for me, and I'd go to sleep while the deli/bakery workers would finish cleaning up, the front end manager and the manager would finish counting the money, and the produce closer would finish covering up the fruit with plastic sheets.
I fell back asleep every time after I thought about that.
I bought a coffee press yesterday at Barnes and Noble so I had six cups of Chock Full of Nuts this morning. Hopefully I'll stay awake through work tonight.
The only bread in our fridge this morning was three peices of Texas Toast, so I used that to make cinnamon toast for breakfast, and I saw on the bread bag this little purple explosion banner (like the ones you can make in microsoft word):
Perfect For Your Family
Of coruse it is! Nothing is more wholesom than bread!
Somebody should make that "perfect for your family" banner into a sticker, and slap it on things like six packs of beer, Midol, instant expresso, and maxi pads at the grocery store.
I bought the book Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC from the William & Mary Barnes And Noble (on clearance for $9.80 or some really off price) and I put this thing on my amazon.com wish list on May 2, 2002, and the only way I'd ever buy it was on clearance. Yeah, kind of happy I waited until it landed on clearance. I also bought the new Modest Mouse.
You know that Rachel Dratch SNL chracter; Debbie Downer?
Well, the old people who shop at my store are like that. They'll say something about how nice the weather is, or someone will complain that its raining, and the old people will always say:
"At least we're not in Florida...all those people...
My headphones are getting old, so when you twist them the right way, you hear the music in an entirely different way. I was listening to REM's Wolf At The Door with the messed up headphones (a couple of weeks ago) , and it sounded like you were listening to REM singing in your high school's chorus room with the bad acoustics down the hallway.
"Yeah, When I Think Of Bullriding, I Think of The Bronx"
Oh lord, Cheap Seats was so funny last night. Example:
Jason: Here’s a poem we submitted to the Def Poet Society in homage to Pam Minick:
(Randy And Jason Present PAM Poetry--I guess I should explain who Pam Minick is, she's a female Bull Riding commentator.)
Randy: The word is a better place with you in it, Pam Minick!
Jason: If you had a cold, I’d go to the drug store and pick you up some Triaminic, Pam Minick!
Randy: You got the skills to spay the ball across all the fields, like Tony Gunick [sp?], Pam Minick!
Jason: I would never let Ted Kennedy drive you to Chappaquiddick, Pam Minick!
Randy: If you were on Real World 3 : San Francisco, you probably would have connected the most with sensitive cartoonist Judd Winwick, Pam Minick!
Jason: UN-like Cigarettes you contain no carcinogens*, Pam Minick, but I am addicted to you girl!
*=I couldn't understand what Jason was saying right there, so I think its that.
They also made a Coors Cutter joke during the show! I have this ep of MST3K Melissa sent me a while back, and it has a Coors Cutter ad in it, and the ad is so lame. Coors Cutter was this short lived non alcholic beer, I think there was a non-alcholic beer trend in the early 1990's.
I quit The Fresh Market in March, I'm now a student.
I am also the person behind Anita's Daily Show Page, a little ditty about the history of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. I don't really have the resources though to work on it right now. (In case you're wondering, Ed Helms is my favorite correspondent, and I like the old shows [1996-2000] better)
I love taking nerdy photos with my digital camera, and doing research on sick/dead retail establishments in my area.
I also like trying and buying many different kinds of soda. It's my new hobby
I use an Apple Emac, I wish I had Microsoft Office and a tv tuner though, one day I will..I hope
If you're a guy dork in glasses you're welcome to send me an email or something. I like the dorky guys in glasses.
