Mr. Show with Bob and David: Genius or Overrated?

yeah, but even on top of the Shingy, the setting is clearly more "Ted Talk" than "product unveil"

let alone "stand up" (shades of Gallagher II notwithstanding)

wait Shingy is a real person?!

reminds me of the dude from the hiphopsite forums who, unfamiliar with gilligans island, tried to break the news that conan obrien made a reference to indie rapper thirstin howl III on late night

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shingy is a real person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mAWlY023o

"the sixth... largest... contributor... to stress today is media overload"
really want to see this research

i'm not even gonna front, i wish to god i had thought up the shingy schtick before he did because i could TOTALLY do that and how much fun would it be to go in front of a group of hundreds of millionaires and just babble half-obvious / half-imaginary truth statistics and then have them pay me a fuckton of money for it

https://youtu.be/Z-sw4CjZnqM?t=1m56s

Digital Prophet by day, singer-songwriter by night.

the Einstein Portrait skit was amazing. episode 2 or 3.

daves stoner brother is really good lmao @ "bro i gotta take one of my world famous showers dont deny me my shower rights"

I don't know why I waited so long to start watching this. So good. Odenkirk's delivery of "but the creamed asparagus stole the show!" in the Most Dangerous Game sketch just about slayed me. He is such an amazing genius.

i just noticed last week that hbogo has the original run up. i do not know if it's always been there and i just never noticed or if it's a recent thing but i was excited to start rewatching

Yeah, I think it's a new thing. I read something about HBO trying to make all of their old shows available. Don't know if they have Larry Sanders yet but they were working on it.

Call me when they get Not Necessarily the News up there

need my sniglet fix

no larry sanders yet :(

yeah that's in the works

I love how like the lone character they brought back from the original run for the new episodes was John Ennis' mustachioed incomprehensible englishman

It's a fantastic character. Upping the incomprehensibility was a good move.

My understanding is the contracts for Larry Sanders for any episodes involving music/musical guests were done in the same short-sighted way that Saturday Night Live's are done - no consideration for online streaming or sales, etc. - and that clearing them for the DVDs was expensive and exhausting. It's never streamed on any service yet.

that's not true it was on Crackle for awhile, and you can purchase episodes/seasons through Amazon

I still wish SNL would figure out some deal with the musical acts, that stuff is living pop culture history at this point

x-post - I don't even know what Crackle is, but either way I was doubly wrong: It streamed on Netflix for a few months in 2013 before Sony (who made it) complained to HBO that they didn't have the rights to license it for streaming, for reasons including music rights.

As for SNL, Broadway Video reportedly refuses to negotiate the extra payments to the musical guests to have the right to rebroadcast that segment of the show on streaming/VOD services. (Lorne doesn't want to pay the bands or the lawyers to deal with it; his interest in the musical segments faded in the '70s, supposedly)

I still wish SNL would figure out some deal with the musical acts, that stuff is living pop culture history at this point

yeah this is so deeply irritating, so many great performances basically totally unavailable/lost

It's so silly. I'm sure it would mean paying, Timbuk 3, like 14 cents a year.

Thank goodness for the efforts of those willing to digitize old VHS tapes. The true heroes.

I mean I def think there is some historical importance and this goes beyond the entitled fan service crap of "why isn't season three of the Twilight Zone on Netflix *pisses pants*" or "nnnguuuhhh I don't want to PAY for [show readily available on iTunes/Amazon] *shits pants*]

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly and it really is a shame *vomits on pants*.

those hbo shows pre-oz i think weren't produced by hbo so they didn't own them. larry sanders streamed on netflix briefly, i'm not sure mr. show ever streamed anywhere, no idea why not really.

Mr. Show is streaming on HBO now

Larry Sanders was just announced today. Starting in I think September.

Mr. Show is on Youtube in its entirety, or at least it has been for years now.

Bob's Netflix Valentine's Day movie "Girlfriend's Day" was p good in a low-key way. Stacey Keach def nails his impression of John Huston as Noah Cross.

Funniest bit was by far "Shitfoot"

every time i see bob in something, or on tv or w/e, i'm always impressed even if he isn't funny -- he seems to be operating on a slightly different level than everyone else, i can't explain it

https://youtu.be/pOqye2O3nYA

This was pretty good; very reminiscent of a Mr. Show sketch.

The ending kills me!

yeah, good punchline

I lol'd

late night TV makeup is distracting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQaF4YXCXsc

watched some of season 3 last night, so classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cku497rURF8

the church of satan skit immediately following is even better

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/459723-conversion-therapy-group-founder-comes-out-as-gay-apologizes

‘mckray game’ is not a real name, c’mon

https://www.fastcompany.com/90539119/these-nine-sketches-from-mr-show-in-the-1990s-perfectly-explain-everything-about-2020

That this character was a rascally hillbilly, and not a Black man minding his own business, speaks to either the sociopolitical landscape of the era, or the ability of David Cross, who played Ronnie, to crush in the writers’ room.

Amazing that David Cross got this role over all the black actors in the cast

Wow that's a dumb sentence

Clearly in the BLM era you'd make a comedy sketch about a black man who's always getting arrested!

how can you make an article like this without including Worthington's Law?

i mean yeah, blow up the moon is obvious too, and the wyckyd scepter explanation sold me, but come on. 'more money = better than' is the guiding philosophy of our country.

Another puzzling line: It’s a play on American exceptionalism, the indomitable spirit later embodied by the Onion article, Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades.

terrible clickbait like this wouldn't be noteworthy if it wasn't such a labored attempt at something so obscure