March 30, 2007
(UPDATE: No longer from Kotaku; we switched it to YouTube.)
March 26, 2007
For those who haven't yet heard of it for whatever reason,
The Riches has been airing Monday nights at 10 on FX for the last few weeks. It follows the lives of a family of
Travellers (headed by Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver) who have stolen the lives of a well-to-do family of suburbanites. We haven't seen it yet, but the reviews have not been spectacular and the clips don't look promising. Plus, while on the surface a show about a family of transients faking their way through life in a sheltered community sounds like a cool idea, when it comes down to it, a show about the hidden side of suburbia is
something we've seen before.
So why are we bringing it up? Because it gives us an excuse to post clips of Eddie Izzard's standup. If you are a fan of comedy at all and you haven't seen his 1999 special
Dress to Kill then you really owe it to yourself to check it out. You can get it off Netflix. These clips don't even come close to doing it justice, but we're pretty sure you'll still enjoy them.
March 22, 2007
Some crazy woman is starving herself until Sanjaya Malakar gets kicked off American Idol. LOLz on the people who keep posting pictures of juicy burgers and fries in her comments section.
Justin Guarini version 2.0
March 19, 2007
Dancing with the Stars takes over the world tonight at 8/7c.
... A star, that is!
Foxtrotting/globetrotting celebreality series Dancing with the Stars premieres its fourth season tonight — and finally the show has a star, the one Ian Ziering (Ian pronounced “Ion”). Ziering is best known for his role as Steve Saunders in Beverly Hills 90210. But who could forget Darrin Danver in Subliminal Seduction? This is not your grandmother’s show anymore... (Though, in all fairness, Subliminal Seduction is a movie about video games.)
Ziering is already slated to win, having been paired with two-time Dancing champ Cheryl Burke. For more on Ziering, ketchup, and dancing, watch video below.
March 13, 2007
In hopes of building advanced word of mouth (we presume, at least), NBC has taken the somewhat unprecedented step of putting
all six first-season episodes of its new Thursday-night comedy (read: quirky, no laughtrack)
Andy Barker P.I. up on its Web site. Perhaps this means that NBC doesn't think the show will do well and thinks the unique marketing campaign will help - if enough internet users check it out, suddenly people will start talking and, lo and behold, the show's a hit, sort of. But also, it seems to us that NBC is trying to encourage viewers to stick with this show and avoid judging it based on two or three episodes. Most good comedies seem to take a few episodes to hit their creative stride -
The Office (US),
Seinfeld,
The Simpsons, and most recently,
30 Rock. The ones that don't are the ones that burn bright for shorter periods of time, like
Arrested Development,
NewsRadio, and
The Office (BBC). Perhaps someone over at NBC was watching these episodes and noticed improvement as they progressed and was hoping that if viewers could watch them all on their own schedule, they'd see that the show gets better as it goes on (rather than just giving up after the pilot.)
Or maybe they just thought they'd try something different. Who's to say, really? As for the show, it's not bad. We just wish there was some way they could wedge it into the schedule without pre-empting
30 Rock, which had been really impressing the last couple of weeks.
You can watch those on NBC.com, also. Would anyone
really miss
My Name Is Earl?
March 13, 2007
Video game release dates aren't quite as reliable as release dates for CDs and DVDs. The game "ships" on a Tuesday, but sometimeswon't be available at a retailer until Thursday or Friday. We don't claim to understand it.
Anyway, at some point this week, you will be able to purchase what will likely be the last must-own in the waning days of the PlayStation 2,
God of War II. Our man Krpata is prepping a review for next week's fishwrap, but in the meantime all we can do is provide video evidence that the game is pretty freakin' cool (rated "M" for mature).
March 02, 2007
You may remember Massachusetts's own Rob Corddry from
The Daily Show as a correspondent. You may remember his wordless bit part in
Old School, as well. Now he's broken out on his own to do a show from Seth MacFarlane, who apparently just has free reign over Fox now, even though
Family Guy has been a shell of its former self since coming back from the dead. We digress. Corddry's show is called the winner, and Rob, we love you and everything, but...
this is your post-
DS gig?
Really? We suppose
Family Guy fans might enjoy this, but for us, throw it on the pile with that Michael Rappaport show.
March 02, 2007
ABC is giving the Geico cavemen
their own sitcom. Variety says the show "will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle
prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in modern
Atlanta."
This could work, we suppose, but it doesn't look good.
Thirty minutes of this?
