I like how he had a bit about what’s the deal with sugar free chocolate? Isn’t sugar in the chocolate part of the entire point of chocolate? Are there really lot’s of people saying “You know the one thing that I can’t stand about chocolate? the sugar.” Who are these people?
And Gilbert Gottfried roasted the hell out of him, “they’re called diabetics, Jerry. They’re a lot like you or me but their bodies react very badly to a sudden rush of sugar hitting the system from something like candy, but they still deserve little moments of joy like a piece of chocolate from time to time. You know, for being a so called “observational comic” you are one of the least observant motherfuckers working in show business right now.”
Two years later Jerry introduced a struggling comic who did not have what it takes to make it in New York, and that character did Seinfeld’s old bit while Jerry ripped off Gilbert’s assessment of himself. It was kind of grotesque to watch.
The “bad” comedian also had my favorite joke from the show “What’s the deal with ovaltine? The jar it comes in ain’t oval, your glass ain’t oval. They should call it Round-time!”
Yeah, this is sad. What a fantastic show. I’m seeing Pera’s standup act in December, very excited for that. Apparently he’s filming shows around then, so maybe I’ll be in an audience shot in a special, lol.
my sister likes to give me grief just because me and bill hader’s Barry shop at the same clothing stores, she thinks he’s my mr. scratch doppleganger. but I find the show weirdly irritating to watch because of how oblivious and dumb he is at times. of course I’ve tried explaining this to her and she just cocks her head and makes giant eyes at me, “yes of course I too am an oblivious dumbass, go stew on some childhood slights, leave me alone”
started watching the larry sanders show while stuck in bed last week and can confirm that hank’s increasingly crazed and misbegotten efforts to pitch people on his awful rotating theme restaurant is the best representation i’ve ever seen of the experience of trying to sell videogames over twitter
Did y’all watch this Mare of Easttown show. Probably not.
Pretty much every TV show I have watched in the past year has gotten steadily worse as its season goes on and craters in its finale. Been a universal trend. I don’t know what this means, maybe I’m just so addicted to novelty I can’t sustain interest through a single season of TV.
I think a lot of modern TV writers aren’t up for writing a sustained work with themes and meaning, rewarded instead for churning out endless streams of saccharine melodrama and empty quips. Works fine for sitcoms where for years anything can happen each episode and nothing sticks around for the next.
imo return to crab (miniseries from the 70s, Columbo or UK spys or German workers, 90s UK procedurals with a psychologist)
something i’ve noticed this year is ‘prestige’ tv really committing to being multiple seasons from the start. yellowjackets, tokyo vice and severance all end on cliff hangers of what could have been pretty tight single season shows. all three are so much worse for it. they end up in this horrible space of trying to present cinematically but have no structural integrity to them.
miserable
over the past few years i have learned that lots of tv shows are good in their early episodes when lots of things about their characters and worlds and what might be going on in them are unknowns and are capable of surprise, and then over their first seasons they methodically chip away at that shape and by the end they’re strictly about sixish characters and you know the exact limits of the world and you see every single thing that happens to those six characters and you have a perfect understanding of how they feel about all of it. and if there are surprises left they are not, like, finding out tony really loves this horse, instead they’re just big dumb cliffhanger plot swings that don’t matter when everything else is so soulless
this is how i’ve felt about every prestige tv thing i’ve thought was shit, which has been the huge, huge majority of them (i have not seen mare of easttown)
Yeah, I think this is right. Everything becomes overdefined. It’s like excessive tutorializing except in film. My overriding reaction watching Mare was “this should’ve just been a movie”. It probably would have been, 20 years ago.
It is really funny how every TV show is a miniseries now. And how many of them are only like marginally aesthetically distinct from old network TV miniserieses from the 90s. But no one cares because they have movie actors in them. Like there was one prestige drama recently that’s literally just about a guy pushing someone down the stairs
See was very good in the beginning of the first season when your are first thrown into this world without much explanation where everyone has been blind for 200 years and the different tribes and whatnot, but then they have to go on this long meandering quest then season 2 I think was trying to be game of thrones with a good kingdom vs the evil kingdom, even though in season 1 the good kingdom had slavers? but on the other hand you got dave bautista as jason mamoa’s evil brother
for all mankind is basically doing a limit break this season
I ignored it initially because I don’t think of myself as a huge fan of either Ron D Moore or Apple TV’s production design but they’re both increasingly perfect for one another
watch that, the bear, the most recent alan partridge series, and then just next week alone, riverdale/what we do in the shadows/better call saul/nathan fielder’s tom mccarthy’s remainder are all coming back. excellent television
and then later on this year we get the kamen rider black remake starring hidetoshi nishijima, white lotus 2, and more jojo. wow, television! wow