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Any of you chaps checked out Reggie along with his buddy Scott Aukerman on Comedy Bang! Bang!? I have no idea how American TV works so not sure if IFC is a common channel in your homes and/or entertainment dens, but as a longtime fan of the CBB podcast it tears me up inside that I can’t watch the show. Unless I learn me how to pirate, which seems like work.
Anyway, they put a free ep on YouTube just to further increase my torment. It has an odd tone, but then a lot of modern LA-based comedy has that (even kid’s cartoons seem “alternative” to me these days) so maybe this odd tone is the new normal tone.
p.s. I don’t want any of your wise lip about how Sarah Silverman’s no damn good Bryan Castles. She’s an angel and that’s all there is to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVV-HspKH0Y
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It’s a little too weird for my taste, especially all the ladder stuff. My favorite part in the episode was the Reggie’s Day Off opener. The show does seem very Spongebob-y, right?
Hmm. Sarah Silverman. How do I state my opinion of her without pissing off Bucho? She’s got like a very strange bitchy cute thing going on, and I’ve seen her on Conan and stuff, and throughout everything I’ve been exposed to of her, I find about 5% funny.
I do get IFC, and I’m going to record the next few episodes to see if it works for me.
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… Spongebob-y …
Yup. Shows like that, Adventure Time and Regular Show, even older stuff like Angry Beavers and Power Puff Girls … I haven’t seem a lot of kids cartoons for the last decade, but from what I have seen there’s a ton more chaos and anarchy in them than there was when we were kids and shit was a lot more linear. CBB doesn’t seem as chaotic and anarchic as something like Tim and Eric, but there’s definitely that element in there. There’s definitely some Peewee Herman influence too.
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Yeah, weird for weird’s sake is typically not that good. Like I said though, Reggie with his thumb in the air and then throwing up was funny enough to stick around for the rest of the show.
I haven’t seen a lot of Tim and Eric but that certainly seems like weird for weird’s sake. CBB seems like weird for comedy’s sake though. Every odd thing feels like a joke on something else – like the animated ladders being a riff on 70s children’s shows, or the earpiece scene being a riff on that old Cyrano de Bergerac thing (or maybe just on Roxanne). There’s method in the madness. Calculation in the chaos. Sarah Silverman’s thighs.
Wait … what were we talking about again?
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