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TV Blogging
Oct. 18th, 2005 01:21 amTwo items, neither of them animated. Well, OK, one of them is partly animated.
I am referring to Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, new on Comedy Central, which features Drew and a number of other comedic types improvising on-stage in front of a live audience, with animators adding extra color to it all after the show has been shot. A number of people are from Whose Line is it Anyways?, including a now-white-haired Colin Mochrie.
This show is considerably better than Drew Carey's version of Whose Line? and is an excellent improv comedy show. The skits are longer than on Whose Line? but they still rely on a fair bit of audience suggestions. By skipping the point structure Drew is more in his element, or at least out of Clive Anderson's (the host of the British Whose Line?
I recommend it highly. This one is a keeper.
The second show of interest is The Colbert Report, which debuted tonight on Comedy Central right after The Daily Show. I feel the show has potential but hasn't got the mix right just yet. Stephen Colbert does a good job of pretending to be bad national news anchor, but there is something missing. On The Daily Show he did a better job of highlighting the underlying sarcasm and cynicism.
I am not running down Mr. Colbert's talent, which he has in spades. He's worked hard to get to this point, and made it on a solid combination of talent, wit, humor, hard work, lucky breaks and ( a bit cut but hilarious ). If he is reading this, I have several things to say and one of them is, Why in God's name are you reading this? You have a show to improve and you need to spend some serious effort doing it! Get back to work, you slacker, and leave the serious work of blogging about your show to me.
In all seriousness, the show would benefit from more sarcasm during the news reporting, a better highlighting of the actual truth during that segment (perhaps with a newsreel along the bottom of the screen - would have been great for the James Baker bit), and a smidge less sarcasm during the celebrity interview, but only a smidge. I know you can do it, Stephen. May I call you Stephen? OK, then what about Mr. Colbert?
In short, it still needs some polishing, but I'll be watching for a while and expect a quick learning curve.
Have fun, campers.
I am referring to Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, new on Comedy Central, which features Drew and a number of other comedic types improvising on-stage in front of a live audience, with animators adding extra color to it all after the show has been shot. A number of people are from Whose Line is it Anyways?, including a now-white-haired Colin Mochrie.
This show is considerably better than Drew Carey's version of Whose Line? and is an excellent improv comedy show. The skits are longer than on Whose Line? but they still rely on a fair bit of audience suggestions. By skipping the point structure Drew is more in his element, or at least out of Clive Anderson's (the host of the British Whose Line?
I recommend it highly. This one is a keeper.
The second show of interest is The Colbert Report, which debuted tonight on Comedy Central right after The Daily Show. I feel the show has potential but hasn't got the mix right just yet. Stephen Colbert does a good job of pretending to be bad national news anchor, but there is something missing. On The Daily Show he did a better job of highlighting the underlying sarcasm and cynicism.
I am not running down Mr. Colbert's talent, which he has in spades. He's worked hard to get to this point, and made it on a solid combination of talent, wit, humor, hard work, lucky breaks and ( a bit cut but hilarious ). If he is reading this, I have several things to say and one of them is, Why in God's name are you reading this? You have a show to improve and you need to spend some serious effort doing it! Get back to work, you slacker, and leave the serious work of blogging about your show to me.
In all seriousness, the show would benefit from more sarcasm during the news reporting, a better highlighting of the actual truth during that segment (perhaps with a newsreel along the bottom of the screen - would have been great for the James Baker bit), and a smidge less sarcasm during the celebrity interview, but only a smidge. I know you can do it, Stephen. May I call you Stephen? OK, then what about Mr. Colbert?
In short, it still needs some polishing, but I'll be watching for a while and expect a quick learning curve.
Have fun, campers.
