Too Many Cooks

Gabe, just FYI, if you want to turn Videogum into an “All-Jeopardy!, All the Time” blog, I’m perfectly okay with that. Potential recurring feature: What’s Up With Ken Jennings?

Who’s with me?

I love Tom Lennon & Ben Garant as much as the next guy (provided that guy loves them VERY VERY MUCH) and I even think Dave Holmes was in the pilot to which you referred and gosh darnit if I don’t like him too, but Tom Lennon & Ben Garant have been part of their share of not-so-great projects, too.

Perfect Couples really seemed to have some things going for it, including Jen Kirkman and Nick Adams on the writing staff and a theme song by AC Newman.

I just think it is really hard to have something awesome get through the typical entertainment biz process – from the page to the cast to the pilot through the network pick-up process, through writing and screening subsequent episodes and incorporating network notes – and come out on the other end still being awesome. It’s what makes the stuff that manages to do that so noteworthy.

“…And all this time, I was smoking HARMLESS tobacco!” – Burns, revealing his true self to the Greenpeace group he infiltrated

“This brown patch over here needs a little H-2-OH YEAH!” – Duffman, watering his lawn

Citizen Canine

PICTURED: All of your boyfriends.

I honestly thought when Ed said, “I’m not mad…” that he was going to finish by saying, “…I’m just disappointed.” But then he said the other cliche thing! So many surprises, this show.

Attorney at Paw(s)!

Here are the details for Mans/ptsmith/ other non-facebookers:

Date/Time: Saturday, August 14 at 8:30pm – August 15 at 2:00am
Location: Anthony’s T Pizzeria Restaurant
1016 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA

If you RSVP on this thread, I can RSVP by proxy for you via facebook comment.

And nobody will know what that last sentence means 25 years from now.

I was going to leave this comment, but then you had already done it. Many upvotes to you! I’ll only add: JA-HISS-ON?

Hey guys, I am no Joe Mande, but I definitely Took One For The Team a couple of weeks ago when, while vacationing with a friend in CA, my friend’s parents decided to surprise us with tickets to see Jay Leno perform at a comedy club in Hermosa Beach. He does a show there every Sunday night apparently. It keeps him IN THE COMEDY ZONE, I guess. Anyway, I sat through an hour+ of Jay Leno jokes and if you think the jokes from the Correspondents’ Dinner are bad (and they totally are), let me assure you that Jay Leno really was giving it is his best effort. In the act I saw, he spent about 20% of the time doing jokes about the CLINTON ADMINISTRATION and various other things that happened during the 90′s. He’d be like, “I don’t know if you saw this, but a few years back…” NO JAY LENO. Not “a few years back”, that was OVER A DECADE AGO. Also, he did a solid 7 minutes of “women like cats and men like dogs” jokes. (Maybe it wasn’t funny because it is TOO TRUE?) At one point, he said, “I don’t understand the dating scene…” to lead into a bunch of dating jokes (I think), but then he just pointed out how he’s been married for 30 years, and didn’t end up making a single joke about dating!

Oh, the stories I could tell you of how hideous this show was!

I just hope none of your white male friends are GAY.