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Year: 2006 (Page 80 of 228)
So you thought last year’s Comedy Central roast of pneumatic blonde Pamela Anderson was, ahem, a bust?
Never fear. The network has announced its next target, and the intended roastee should afford the roasters plenty of material beyond the basic, lowest-common-denominator body-part jokes that dominated last year’s event.
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to roast…William Shatner.
No, seriously: Prepare to roast him yourself. The network is soliciting roast videos from the public…so get that digital camera ready, and do your worst.
He can take it. He’s Captain Kirk. Not to mention he’s also…Denny Crane!
The show will air Sunday, August 20.
And just like that, we find out that the “Last Comic Standing” season finale is tonight. Holy crap, how did that happen? I knew that last night would be the final square-off of the 2 remaining contestants, but NBC decided not to extend the show one more week. And actually, for that, I give them credit.
I just wonder now how painfully long they are going to make tonight’s show.
But back to last night. Before announcing who would be going home and not performing, the network had to scramble to fill up a whole hour. So they let host Unfunny Clark do his stand-up routine. Well, he wasn’t as bad as his hosting has led us to believe he is, but he was still pretty bad.
Then they let the two finalists in the online competition duke it out…..supposedly there was this whole other competition going on that about five of us knew about, where the contestants who didn’t make it to the Queen Mary got to perform for the online community each week. The finalists were Josh Wolf and Theo Von, and not only was Josh funnier than Theo…he may have been funnier than any of the remaining comics. At least I know I’d pay to see this guy. But we’ll see what happens tonight. Then comic Paul Rodriguez guested and did a decent job himself.
After this, it was the elimination and most of us knew what was coming…..Chris Porter was voted off.
To use a baseball analogy, imagine a lifetime .350 hitter striking out 8 straight times in the biggest games of his career. That was Chris Porter the last 2 weeks. So Josh Blue and Ty Barnett got to perform for the championship.
I like both of these guys, but I like Josh just a bit better. He uses his disability to a fault, but he’s still pretty freaking hilarious. Last night, I think his impersonation of Grover from “Sesame Street” locked it up for him. And I think America likes Josh too. So we’ll see what happens tonight, and who will become the Last Comic Standing for this season. Till then, Vandalay is OUT.
Out on DVD this week:
1) Brick – BUY: One of the best movies of the year, this high school noir is like David Lynch on crack; and then that crack being sold to teenagers.
2) Inside Man – BUY: Spike Lee is probably the last director I ever thought would direct a film like this, but he does an amazing job with the material. This one flew under the radar, but it definitely shouldn’t have.
3) Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector – PASS: Stay far, far away from this piece of crap. As if I really had to tell you this movie sucked.
4) Prison Break: Season One – BUY: The first season of Fox’s prison drama proved to be the biggest surprise of 2005, so if you were dumb enough to miss it, be sure to pick up this set before the new season debuts on August 22.
Also out this week is the third season of the HBO crime drama, “The Wire,” the Andy Garcia-directed “Lost City,” the Japanese drama, “The Hidden Blade,” and the documentary, “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America.”
Wow. What an incredibly insignificant hour of television, but since there’s still two more weeks before the big season finale (plenty of time to wrap up all existing subplots and start a few new ones), Episode Ten is often considered a freebie for the writers to pretty much do whatever they want. HBO’s “Entourage” did the same this week with the pointless (but fun) Vegas trip, and “Rescue Me” follows suit with an entire hour dedicated to Tommy reminiscing about his job as a firefighter.
Nothing else exciting really happens. Sheila buys Tommy a new Cadillac pickup truck, only to get stolen from him within twenty minutes. Probie turns in his transfer form, only for Tommy to spread gay rumors to all the other firehouses. Janet and Tommy meet to talk about the baby, but no one knows whose it is. And Franco is given the boot by his girlfriend when her retarded brother gets loose on the town; an obvious ploy by the guy to “keep” his sister all to himself. Tommy also managed to guzzle $200 worth of whiskey without paying a single dime at the end of the episode. How? By telling war stories about his years with the FDNY, of course, not to mention a couple sob stories about 9/11 and a full disclosure of his personal problems. Oh, and in case you were wondering, “World Trade Center” opens tomorrow. What, you didn’t get a chance to see the special promo? Here it is again, just in case you missed it. Ugh.
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