From The Learning Channel, which brought us the Sarah Palin reality show, comes this latest exercise in pointless tedium: Watch Extreme Couponing: Midnight MadnessSunday, Jan. 29 @ 10/9c to see four couponers battle crowds to get the best savings on Black Friday. Extreme Couponing follows savvy shoppers as they plan and plot their way to unbelievable savings. [...]
Posts under ‘television’
It’s pronounced learnd
Offensively bad, not offensively offensive
It’s a shame the gay indignation councils will receive credit for the cancellation of a clearly horrible sitcom. I doubt many, if any, transgendered people were that bothered by “Work It” — after all, it is a broad “comedy,” much like drag shows. (For those overly sensitive types, including the token straight guy who works [...]
Happy Charles Nelson Taylor Day
Better stock up on booze and confetti because we’re only hours away from the gayest date on the calendar, Jan. 13, the day flamboyant game show mainstays Rip Taylor and the late Charles Nelson Reilly were born.
Filed under: 70s, Charles Nelso…
I’ll trade you the drug addict for the closeted gay
Gary Busey and Ted Haggard are swapping wives — for our entertainment, of course.
Ah, the sanctity of marriage.
Filed under: Americans scare me, drugs, gay issues, Television
Best debut of 2011
Eddie Schweighardt, aka Greg the gay kid on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”:
Filed under: comedy, Television
‘No one makes fun of Tim Allen on my watch’
Johnny Depp may have stopped making interesting movies but at least he’s a good sport.
From Rickey Gervais’ new show, “Life’s Too Short”:
Filed under: comedy, Television
Fox conspiring to destroy the animated sitcom
Fox has bought TWO new series featuring Russell Brand, the UK’s answer to Adam Sandler (or, as Heinrich suggests, the Brits’ idea of payback for Madonna). Besides an unscripted late night show on FX, Katy Perry’s husband has been tapped to appear in an animated comedy about himself. It’s written and produced by the team [...]
Now this is kitsch
Kitsch is one of those overused terms, like diva and icon.
This, gentle reader, is kitschy:
Filed under: 70s, kitsch, nostalgia, Television
Nothing says Friday quite like …
A supersized compilation of Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. It’s been too long.
Filed under: 70s, nostalgia, Television
Cosell-a-palooza
What might’ve been (excerpted from the New York Times’ review of “Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports,” by Mark Ribowsky): Cosell did not mind self-parody but refused Allen’s offer to play a pervert in “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.” I’m guessing this was the role Cosell [...]
I hope the promotions whiz who wrote this feels dirtier than GG Allin
(source) With unemployment an ongoing issue and women now outnumbering men in the workforce, the new comedy series Work It follows two alpha males who realize the only way to beat the current “mancession” and land a job in pharmaceutical sales is to pass themselves off as women. To be fair, “Work It” might be [...]
