Seriously? No comments on the start of the second season? I know Lewis Black is basically useless on that show, but it's 2 top tier comics (usually west side comics) pontificating on ridiculous stuff!
Why no love?
Seriously? No comments on the start of the second season? I know Lewis Black is basically useless on that show, but it's 2 top tier comics (usually west side comics) pontificating on ridiculous stuff!
Why no love?
-Stig, Jack Handey's Bestest Fan
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
The only reason I watch this crappy show is to support some of my favorite comics. There are a lot of AST favorites on that show so I'm also surprised nobody else commented.
Take it easy bros. The board collapsed, remember?
Anyway, this first episode, eh. Bad topics. The one thing I came away with was that Patton was adorable in the powdered wig and Andy Daly is a boiling cauldron of charisma that I can't pry my eyes off of when he's on screen. If more than a handful of people end up watching the new Match Game, I don't think they'll let him host it for very long before he's shuffled off into the back room and made into a movie star.
and, in a just world, he will be replaced with jimmy pardo.
i keep wanting to enjoy this show, but usually i just end up being mostly disappointed by the topics and format of the show.
The show does remain stilted. As long as they continue to use such good people I feel like I can count on each guy to get in a couple good lines and make it worth watching
"My wife and I don't miss that young man at all."
God dammit that is good
The Rickroll would have been so much better if it wasn't kinda telegraphed, but I guess you've got to set it up a little when your studio audience is full of the middle-aged homeless.
I TiVo the show and then skip through Black's speaking parts as much as possible, reducing the show down to about 15-16 minutes.
I thought Patton's 1776 taped segment was a very clever evisceration of the kind of blog commenters who pollute places like Gawker and AVClub.com.
I think Black realizes he's not really adding anything to the mix. His delivery on his lines is about as deer-in-headlights as you can get. So props to him for not trying to steal attention and just showing up for the paycheck.
The framing device isn't all bad though, if you took away the structure of this show do you think the comics could actually present their views in a clear and storied way? The problem with Tough Crowd was it was 7 people all speaking over eachother (and 2 of them usually sucked). The problem with Root of All Evil is there aren't enough people talking (and they don't talk to eachother). Seems like Comedy Central is bouncing between extremes.
-Stig, Jack Handey's Bestest Fan
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
Well you try not sucking when you're invisible.Originally Posted by tockxie
The lack of interaction is definitely responsible for the awkward feel of the show. I wish they'd allow/encourage more (any?) ad-libbing. Obviously the people involved are capable enough. Those occasional back-and-forth bits during the Inquisition segment always feel so scripted, a little improvising there would do wonders.
I think the issue is a demographic one. I would be so thrilled to watch some funny comics just have a simple conversation about an issue and crack jokes at their leisure, and I'm sure most of the people here agree, but we're all interested in comedy in a different way than most of comedy central's audience just by virtue of numbers. I think the mos Tough Crowd and Root of All Evil viewers are looking for different things than that in those shows (colin quinn being rude and a 30 minute daily show segment, respectively), which causes them both to kinda suck.
I will agree with what is written here, that Lewis Black is pretty much useless, but we have great comics spouting jokes and skits for 15 minutes (when whittled down).
A chance to see "new" material each week by good comics is fun and more often than not, hilarious. I would love to see the unedited portions of the show because the editing is obvious and we're left with unheard hilarity.
Show ain't great but the lawyers are, and Andy Daly shines on this show.
Last nights episode was by far the best one I've seen. Kindler and PFT were funny enough to make this show look good, which means they were incredibly funny.
Oh they were. Andy walking out with his briefcase and Paul walking out with his eyebrow held high set the standard for the whole great episode!
The show had so much potential, it is so scripted it is ridiculous.
Every time Siggers posts all that goes through my mind is "Chosen One"
Damn all these scripted shows that all promise scripted material!
In some cases you can tell Lewis is reading from a teleprompter other than that i like the show. Thought it was going to be a tad less scripted, however.
Every time Siggers posts all that goes through my mind is "Chosen One"
I got so excited about Jimmy Pardo's cameo in the PFT v. Kindler episode. I actually yelled out "holly shit, its jimmy." and I was alone. It was pathetic
"I'm the best detective in this room." -Jimmy Pardo
So yeah, I'm innocently watching Root of All Evil last night, kinda half-asleep. There's Andy Daly and PFT... then, out of the blue... PFT bets the crap out of Jimmy Pardo, who is innocently painting de fence!!! The hell!!!
The only thing funnier would have been if Andy Daly had beat him up. And said, "Yeah, I stole your TV show too, bitch!"
OK, maybe funny isn't the word.
Craig... That dick.
Oh, I deserve worse than that.
Hey Darryl... the Andy/Jimmy thing has been beat to death! The host gig Andy got was Jimmy's dream job so rubbing salt in his wounds isn't funny or cute. Andy and Jimmy are cool with each other and business is business. So if they've gotten past the awkwardness maybe you should get over it too. These jokes might be funny coming from Jimmy's friends... not from you.
Only two kinds of people wear sunglasses inside: the blind and assholes - Larry David
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