Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts

9/25/09

It's time for me to say it...I don't really like Parks and Recreation!


Look, I love sitcoms. Most of my comic humor is based on a life of growing up watching classic and not so classic television sitcoms with highly inappropriate laugh tracks. That is why have to finally admit to myself that I could care less about Parks and Recreation the spin - off of the very popular and way more more funny NBC sitcom The Office. As much as I love Amy Proehler her character looks little more to me than a Michael Scott rip off in drag with bottled blonde hair. Despite the cast that does have funny people it is hard for me not to compare them to The Office cast. Which is no comparison. What's worse than the fact that it doesn't compare to The Office is the fact that the show is just not funny. It doesn't make me laugh. I chuckle but I think some of them are forced chuckles. Just my opinion!

6/21/09

Do you remember...Three's Company?

I used to love this show. It jumped the Shark when Crissy left but John Ritter proved why he was the second best physical comedian of his era (Sherman Helmsley being the first). He spent seven seasons making a show work way after it's premise was tired. Check out the theme and some bloopers.
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!


When it comes to Dads, Fathers I have very little reference. Due to circumstances I did not grow up with one. I had an UBER MOM but as we all know the best Mothers can only do so much with a boy, fathers our needed. So for Father figures I never looked inside the home as much as I looked inside the television home. 
John Amos played the quintessential television dad. Authoritative, loud and way wise James Evans of Chicago. The way that he ran his family but listened to his wife would serve as a future guide for what I thought a father and husband should be. Even though he lived in the projects, was dirt poor and struggled he taught me that a man does for his family before he does for himself. It was sad when the writer's of Good Times killed John Amos off but in truth he was alive long enough to teach me and millions of Fatherless boys how to be a DAD. Thanks James.

11/8/08

One of the best that ever did it!



I loved Nell Carter. She was such a good actress that she made me forget that the show that she starred in was about a Black maid working for a white family. Now that I am older I am sure that she was fucking Chief Kiniski but at that young age I didn't pick that up. Before she died, Nell Carter had bouts with depression, cocaine and lesbianisn. Talk about a trifecta. She is no longer with us so alas there will be no reunion show. Rest In Peace, Nell I will always love you.

Message to Fred Armisen: Time to get your impression together; ASAP!



Okay now it's time for Lorne Michaels to admit that he was caught totally unawares that Brack Obama was going to win the Presidency this year. He had no Black cast members besides Keenan and he too fat to play Obama. With that said I know it's not easy to mimick Obama who doesn't have the dumbness or smugness like his predecessors Bush and Clinton respectively. But now that Barack is set four at least a four year term it's time for Armisen to get his act together. History tells us that just because