This is what happens when you leave Comedy Central on late at night. The Ben Stiller Show is on...whoo hoo! Pre-stardom Ben Stiller! Pre-rehab Andy Dick! Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk! I remember feeling it was horribly unfair when this show was prematurely canceled years ago...lets see if it's aged well.
Somewhere I have all of these on tape. We watched quite a bit of this in college and while it was uneven -- like all sketch comedy is I guess -- several of the bits are legendary to quite a few of us: Tito Gallegos, The Pig Latin Lover Die Hungry A Few Good Scouts Kill Doug Szathkey Cape Munster Advantage: Agassi Bad Twist Ending Theater I could go on and on...
I set up a TiVo wishlist for the Ben Stiller show about a year and a half ago. It finally struck gold. I loved the U2: The Early Years documentary, when they did the Lucky Charms commercial.
I thought the Metallica cover they did was pretty goddamn cool.(Enter Sandman maybe?)I never watched a full episode.(weren't they up against something big at the time)I only caught bits and pieces here and there. Pretty funny schitt. PEACE