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You're not sorry, scumbag. Enjoy roasting in the fiery pits of hell's dark inferno.
Am I just imagining this, or is it true?
TBS should make him lose 40 pounds.
Am I just imagining this, or is it true?
He tends to joke about the commercials in an apologetic way. He was that way on a local radio show in Boston. Plus, I love the diet coke with the big breakfast.
Caliendo's problem is that he's fat, and as a result, it's hard to make him look like the people he's trying to imitate. Obviously, his John Madden is fine, and he does a pretty good Bush, but he doesn't look anything like Al Pacino or Jack Nicholson or Jerry Seinfeld.
TBS should make him lose 40 pounds.
Not ever impressions is meant to or should look and sound exactly like the celebrity.
Here is a quotation from part of an interview with Seth Myers:
I think his impressions are pretty funny, but the show itself is pretty unfunny. If you've seen the commercials you can skip the show.
"His father is the district attorney!"
but they're close. Very close.
Have you actually seen the show tribefan? I was wondering if anyone here actually had.
He does seem like a pretty pleasant fellow, and a few of his impressions are pretty good.
But without any knowledge of the show, it would seem to me, however, that it would be really difficult to make that particular skill work over the course of a half-hour (hour?).
Never underestimate the stupidity of TV execs.
Fox currently has a show called "Hole in the Wall", in which contestants try to fit through a hole in a moving wall. Their recent attempts to bump ratings involved a match between a group of women from "Flavor of Love" and another group of women from "Rock of Love". Compared to that, Caliendo's show must seem like Citizen Kane.
I swear, we're only a year away from Fox introducing its new prime-time sensation "Ow, my balls!".
Do you really want to go here, TGF? Two and A Half Men is still on TV. I turned on FOX the other day and there's an actual show called Hole in the Wall in which three losers stand motionless on a platform while a giant Styrofoam wall comes at them and tries to knock them off the platform. The only saving grace is the unbelieveably contortionist human-sized cutout in the wall - the goal if you're one of these losers is to make your best approximation of that pose while the wall comes at you and try to get through it.
That's a real show. And that's all it is - in later rounds, the wall goes a little bit faster.
that's the name of my kickball team.
[Vercotti brothers]Be a real shame if something happened at the Wilbur Theatre. 'Cause things break, don't they?[/Vercotti brothers]
Meanwhile, Frank TV is more heavily promoted than the last 3 Star Wars films combined, and is about a fat guy doing slightly better than average impressions of some of the easiest targets in America.
It's like we're discussing the World Series of Fail TV.
Remember Chevy Chase as President Gerald Ford?
I've had friends swear to me that Caliendo's stand up act is hilarious. But very rarely, "Seinfeld" nowithstanding, does a stand up act translate well to a sitcom or sketch comedy format.
It's a false comparison. Despite FOX's efforts to throw away as many prime-time slots as possible, original programming on a broadcast network is a big, big deal. Most cable nets didn't do their own original programming until the last few years. The thing about Frank TV is that TBS has a lot at stake in promoting its own offerings, in order to offset the cost of producing their own series.
Also in play is that TBS only has a few programs to hype, while bigger networks have many more. So there may be the same promotional time in a baseball game, but on TBS virtually all of that time will be about Frank, and on FOX, it'll be split five ways to promote all of their useless crap.
I'm pleased to say that I haven't seen them all.
The show compensates for it's complete and total predictability with it's graphic profanity (for network TV) and by sinking the morality of the characters lower and lower. I watched the new one last night (I miss the Yankees) and they started the show with Sheen being drunk in the morning and finished with the kid (Jake?) getting wasted outside a convenience store using the advice Sheen gave him to figure out how to buy beer and the money his dad bought his secrecy with to buy it. Most of the show was entirely predictable, but the open scumminess of the characters is fresh enough for me to enjoy it.
Speaking of uninspired TV, isn't According to Jim the longest-tenured sitcom on TV or some such thing?
I find the woman who plays the wife of the guy who is not the actor who portrayed "The Rick" on ESPN promos years ago unbearably hot. That having been said, I don't think I've ever watched more than a few minutes of it consecutively.
This is the right answer. Despite the overload on promos last season -- and the majority of Primates being underwhelmed -- I continued to find them pretty amusing. So I actually watched the premiere of the show, and it was terrible. Maybe it could be better if they changed the format -- it was weighed down by pointless, awkward, unfunny banter between skits -- but I haven't bothered watching again.
I'm less amused by the promos this season. He now plays Pacino (I guess it's Pacino) as a cross between an old queen and a lunatic off his meds. Some of the new impressions, like Trump, don't seem that good.
Caliendo was hilarious the last time I heard him on Roe Conn.
Yes, yes she is.
She was also in Mr. Holland's Opus and, which I did not know until a few minutes ago, was the older sister in Uncle Buck.
Jean Louisa Kelly. Good lord, was she ever cute. The rest of the show was incredibly mediocre, but I used to watch it regularly just for her.
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I also watch 2.5 men, even though the old guy within me thinks it shouldn't be on broadcast tv due to its material and delivery.
If it's any consolation, I've watched a couple minutes, and I still don't believe it really exists. I honestly don't think that television could get any worse than that, unless a network just starts running snuff films, but I've thought that before, and I've always been proven wrong.
Go look up some youtube footage of Sinatra, as performed by Phil Hartman. In some cases, it's just a matter of hammering on one or two specific quirks of the individual, rather than the overall persona. Think broad strokes, rather than focusing on the minutia.
Another example of the above might be Will Farrel as Robert Goulet.
It really is. Instead, I'll take your car.
Really, I'd actually be ashamed to take anything in return for a reference to "Hole in the Wall". It's such a disaster of a show that it'd be like profiting off of Katrina, or child labor, or some other horrible thing like that.
And now I'm thinking of Frank Caliendo naked in an inexplicable bathtub out in the pastoral wilderness. Thanks, man.
He really is much, much better on the radio.
Didn't Fox try to do that years ago? I seem to remember that they'd come to an agreement with a guy on death row who wanted to use his death as a warning, or possibly a paycheck - I don't remember the exact details. Needless to say, it was shot down before it happened.
Sadly enough, doing a quick search for "Televised Executions" turns up a bunch of studies indicating that two-thirds of Americans support televising them. I fear that you'll be shortly proven correct.
Wow. I like Junji Ito as much as the next guy, but I never thought they'd make his work into a game show.
(Read panels right to left, or it won't make sense.)
I know a bunch of people who would watch them. They'd have to have parental warnings on every square inch of available frame, so that people don't tune it in accidentally.
But I could see a deal - put it on Pay-Per-View so that accidentals don't see them. Don't use the felon's real name so that there's no accusation of "celebrity-making", and make sure that all monies are given directly to the families of victims.
I concur on her hotness. What happened to her?
I don't consider myself much of a prude, but the promos for Two and Half Men that run during football games make me blush. Maybe having a son recently has made me a prude, but I really wish the FCC would make an agreement with networks - okay, after 9 pm you can show whatever you want - gore, nudity, f-bombs galore. But before 7pm your promos ought to be squeaky clean with no sexual innuendo, violence or language.
I wouldn't. I already don't agree with the use of the death penalty, for moral reasons (vengeance, as opposed to punishment), as well as ethical reasons (unfair application across different social and racial groups) and general unreliability (a whole lot of people on death row are convicted largely on witness testimony which is later shown to be incorrect). To televise it would strip whatever little value there might still be from the entire process.
If there's no use of the persons name, and there's no money going to him or his family, why would the felon agree to such a thing? Unless, of course, the felon doesn't have a choice, and it's just the next step on the way to introducing show trials.
I don't know if it's strange, but I attend school with the son (and daughter!) of one of the producers of Frank TV. They're actually pretty cool.
Canada actually has a somewhat similar policy, in that after a certain hour, almost anything goes. As a result, most of the networks/stations attempt to restrict the content of their promos before that time. Overall, it seems to work out fairly well, although I doubt that any of them feel that the promos for 2.5 men are really that racy.
It's an awful, awful show. Picture the Bill Engvall show. But worse. And with Charlie Sheen. And Jon Cryer. 2.5 Men is shown 24 hours a day in hell.
They'd have to get the rights to "Wild Thing" for the theme music.
I'd watch that.
The quote given is a defense of Amy Poehler's Hillary Clinton impression. Which is certainly one of the worst regular impressions that SNL has ever had. Because she does not sound like Hillary at all.
Will Ferrell's impressions are sort of a different topic altogether. They try and get him to look as much like the figure as possible, and he apes the voice, but he usually goes nuts with the characterization. For example, his Neil Diamond as an insane racist drug-addled sexually deviant murderer.
Meanwhile, Arrested Development can't make it thru 3 seasons.
That would have to be in the non-Tim Meadows category.
Be glad it lasted that long. Most shows that I like get canceled before the mid-point of their first season.
Oh well. At least it makes it cheap for me to buy the entire series on DVD.
And at least they're making a movie.
I'm just praying It's Always Sunny stays on the air. By far the funniest show on TV right now.
Hell, it's shown 24 hours a day on Earth.
Two thirds of the Earth is covered by water - the rest is covered by Charlie Sheen.
Agreed, until 30 Rock comes back on.
But it doesn't, because:
1) Over two-thirds of the fans (22 of 30) root for teams that didn't make the playoffs at all, so they're already grumbling;
2) The games are played at screwy times of the day to accomodate television;
3) The games themselves take forever because of the endless interruptions;
4) The interruptions are filled with commercials for products no one wants and TV programs no one wants to see;
5) Because TBS is carrying the games, the main program being advertised is "Frank TV", which TBS apparently sunk a lot of cash into;
6) "Frank TV" is obviously not worth watching, and see the same promo for it over and over and over and over and over again is not terribly entertaining, either.
7) "Frank...Caliendo...must...DIE!!!!!" (Multiply this anger by 10,000 if you're from Chicago.)
So, as a result, Mr Caliendo must endure the barbs of baseball fans. On the other hand, he's well-compensated enough for his trouble and doesn't appear to be missing too many meals.
I've been watching a lot of that on Hulu, which by the way is awesome. I finally saw that WKRP Thanksgiving episode that y'all quote all the time.
I hope it lived up to the hype.
That's on there? Holy crap I can't wait to get home.
On this subject, why did they switch from Will Forte to Jason Sudeikis for the Bush impression? Neither sound much like Bush, but at least Forte portrayed a kind of clueless wacky persona, whereas Sudeikis is really just a straight man for the comedy around him. As Bush, he is quite flat and boring.
For some reason, I read this as "3rd Rock (from the Sun)" and figured it was either a brilliant pastiche or a smackdown-worthy opinion.
I agree, and yet I'll defend Poehler to this extent: Her lines as Clinton were funnier than Fey's as Palin in the first "Pey-Falin" skit SNL did.
I think they just thought that Tina in that makeup and with those particular glasses was funny enough to carry the sketch. To their credit, they realized that they had to give her lines as well.
I was kind of in the same boat until I watched 30 Rock. It's easily the best comedy since Arrested Development.
That is all.
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