Too! Much! Comedy!
I cannot remember a sitcom season when I laughed out loud so heartily and surprisedly as I have this fall with Corner Gas and My Name Is Earl.
Earl was new this week and was so goddam funny I pretty much didn’t stop laughing the whole half hour. The ketchup! The ashes! The knives!
It was funnier than Battlestar Galactica, the old one I mean.
Starting with a cameo by the Prime Minister, Corner Gas on Monday was just great, and I mean funnier than any Canadian sitcom ever was. Partly because the competition is mainly things like Mosquito Lake and The Trouble with Tracy, but even if those had been any good…
And if you care, Stephen Colbert’s own show ‘The Colbert Report’, apparently pronounced ‘The Cole-bear Re-pore’, is going to be on CTV at 12:35 am (Himself corrected the time to am from pm because he always gets them confused…) after ‘The Daily Show’ starting next Monday.
I hope it doesn’t suck as much as ‘The Daily Show’.
Just when I was thinking that Canadian politics was boring, along comes the Gomery Report and I’m nailed to the TV, bouncing between Newsworld, Newsnet and CP24 just to see who’s saying what.
Then the American Democrats, those competitive Yanks, have to go and lock down the Senate for two hours in order to force a resolution to the whole buggered and butchered pre-war intel thing, promised for a year by the Republicans.
Ya can’t laugh for cryin’, my friends. And, thank god, vice versa.
November 4th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
What’s wrong with the Daily Show? I thought you liked some of the stuff on there. I do find I use the fast forward button a lot.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:32 am
Good lord, man! I love the Daily Show! I was being Byronic. Or something.
And the Cole-bear Re-pore so totally doesn’t suck!
I was half expecting it to be a clone of the Daily Show, or worse, a comedy-variety half-hour with no substance and no zazz!
But it’s got substance and zazz comin’ out its ass! Which could be uncomfortable, but good comedy should be uncomfortable, laughter being an interrupted defense mechanism and all.
What do you think of the Cole-bear Re-pore, Jeff? If you don’t like it, lie. How will I know?
November 11th, 2005 at 11:43 am
PS, Jeff, sorry I took so long to approve your comment. I’m not used to having to actually look after this blog.
November 14th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
The Colbert report is currently suffering from dry delivery and is a little over the top. I think he may smooth his act out over time, however.
November 15th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
I like the over-the-topness of it. Most of the time. It’s fast-paced and jokey and fast-jokey, and every so often I have to catch my mental breath, but that’s a good thing.
Gah. Martha Stewart was Jon’s interview on the Daily Show last night and I nearly barfed at her plastic/Barbie/1984/clinical hospitality sheen. Very unsettling.