(If there's a thread already on this show, bite me. I didn't look for it alright!!!) what a great show, 11:30 Mon-Thurs. Fans of Opie and Anthony will really enjoy it since most of the comics were on their show often
I love it. It's what politically incorrect could have been, except all the guy's are funny and they don't make any serious pretences about being experts about anything.
Eh, I got sick of it pretty quickly. Usually the comics are pretty dull and misreading the prompter isn't funny every show. The ones with Denis Leary or Sara Silverman were good though.
That show's got the best intro-sequence on TV. I watch every night...that show is sooooooo NYC with in-jokes that it must go over the heads of Comedy Central's core audience of Middle-American South Park fans. Greg Giraldo is my fave guest on the show. He's a crazy-fast wit, and he's the first guy I've ever seen put Denis Leary in his place.
I find Colin Quinn painfully unfunny, and that Patrice O'Neal should be stoned (with rocks, not weed). But Sarah Silverman is great on there, as is Leary, Girardo, and a couple of the others (Norton?)... RS
good if it does....don't want it to get watered down like what happend to Politically Incorrect. I say keep it NYC-centric, it'd be a rare thing to not make it for everyone and water the shows present quality
I think its a crap version of Politically Incorrect. In PI they tried to talk about issues and here their just excuses for them to diss each other. And most of the time its not funny, the same guys are funny most of the times but the majority blow each time.
They key point is 'tried'. They tended to fail miserably. The standard forumla for PI was one uber liberal, one uber conservative, one 'celebrity' (either an A or B rate one, depending on the night), and one comic. The comics and celebrities tended to be liberal, and Maher went both ways, so it tended to be a bash the conservative fest every night. Which is fine if you're a liberal, but gets old when you're moderate or conservative. I think these guys are mostly funny each night. Probably because they are incredibly un-PC. And they don't make much pretenses about trying to discuss the issues seriously. It is mostly a show that is just four comics talking like they would in a bar or something.
Actually its the opposite. Its four comics doing stand up and verbal jousting. The show seems to be conservative since Quinn, Norton, and Dipaolo all tend to be that way. Whatever. But the show doesn't even try to tackle any issue. The whole point of it is as a competition to who can come with the funniest one liner. If seen in that light, it does it well. If seen as a discussion show, then its one of the worst since they don't discuss at all. PI try to discuss issues and that was the point of that show while this one is to make jokes and see people bash each other. You can't compare but since PI could be both (funny and informative) while being a good debate, I think its superior since Tough Crowd is just funny. But spontaneous its not.