panerd
07-08-2004, 11:20 PM
Anyone seen this new show on Comedy Central? I don't know if my sense of humor is just right up this show's alley, but this thing has had me laughing out loud at the TV the past two nights.
If you haven't heard about it they basically set up people who think they are experts in a certain field and put them on a panel type show (Crossfire/Hardball) with outragous comedians who play the devil's advocate. I won't do any of the bits justice by explaining them, but the funny parts aren't really what the comedians say but how outraged the real people are at how ignorant the comedian guests are. Like today's show there was a anti-drug lady debtating a comedian about marijuana. And at one point in the show he says he does tests of the effects of smoking pot and driving vs. drinking and driving by experiementing on himself in his own neighborhood. After she yells about how he should be arrested, she starts arguing about how he can't claim research just based on himself. So he explains that he also tests his theory by getting neighborhood kids high in his basement and letting them drive his car.
The unintentional zing of the night was when the fake guest was explaining how the world's idols are people like Willie Nelson. And trying just to be outragous he asks her to name one true idol who doesn't smoke pot. (expecting she would say Mother Teresa, etc.) She says George W. Bush! Even the straightman host started cracking up.
If you haven't heard about it they basically set up people who think they are experts in a certain field and put them on a panel type show (Crossfire/Hardball) with outragous comedians who play the devil's advocate. I won't do any of the bits justice by explaining them, but the funny parts aren't really what the comedians say but how outraged the real people are at how ignorant the comedian guests are. Like today's show there was a anti-drug lady debtating a comedian about marijuana. And at one point in the show he says he does tests of the effects of smoking pot and driving vs. drinking and driving by experiementing on himself in his own neighborhood. After she yells about how he should be arrested, she starts arguing about how he can't claim research just based on himself. So he explains that he also tests his theory by getting neighborhood kids high in his basement and letting them drive his car.
The unintentional zing of the night was when the fake guest was explaining how the world's idols are people like Willie Nelson. And trying just to be outragous he asks her to name one true idol who doesn't smoke pot. (expecting she would say Mother Teresa, etc.) She says George W. Bush! Even the straightman host started cracking up.