Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVuXgy3CVY

the ending makes sense - sometimes bleak losers have mini wins

It feels like a failure of nerve in a programme that was almost wholly misanthropic all down the line.

daily show - correspondents are not great these days, interviews have been getting shittier and shittier, somebody needs to drop rob riggle out of a plane

^^^^ nonsense. yes there are plenty of funny corresponents, in fact they have better people there today than they did in the past imo.

guess I was the only 1st place voter.

i did some statistical breakdown based on safe assumptions of the top few not yet posted, for some fun analysis of the 'ilx demographic'. by network, for the US shows:

HBO: 8 (incl. Ali G )
FOX: 6
NBC: 5
UPN/WB/CW: 4
Comedy Central: 4
AMC: 2
MTV/MTV2: 2
CBS: 1
ABC: 1
FX, Starz, SyFy, Showtime, Bravo: 1 each

can't really be bothered to figure out the UK shows or if any weren't BBC or whatever, but there were 11 of those

i mean how many times have they done the "rob riggle in an inappropriate sleeveless shirt oh the laughter" joke?

xposts saying the current correspondents are better than ed helms/cobert is madness btw

MADNESS!

By genre:

Hourlong dramas and dramedies: 21
Half-hour live action sitcoms: 14
Non-fiction/reality/unscripted/nature/variety/etc.: 8
Animated: 6
Sketch: 2

ok its kinda pathetic that the top youtube results for daily show cramer are just other new shows talking about that episode and showing clips (i know you can watch it on the daily show site tho)

what from MTV made it?

colbert and ed helms are both better placed in their current positions than when they got 2 minutes a week to talk. samantha bee and john oliver are as strong imo.

not the Daily Show exactly, but one of JS's best moments imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNcACfx1RTM

the ending makes sense - sometimes bleak losers have mini wins

It feels like a failure of nerve in a programme that was almost wholly misanthropic all down the line.

i spose i didn't see an all pervasive misanthropy there, but plenty of moments of light and lightness. horses for courses.

MTV=Wonder Showzen, I think xposts

what from MTV made it?

― musically, Thursday, November 5, 2009 6:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Jackass and Wonder Showzen

musically - Jackass, no?

still think My Super Sweet 16 has a chance of top 3

larry willmore is awesome.

thanks, forgot about Jackass and had never heard of Wonder Showzen

I like the younger black guy I can never remember the name of. Wish they used John Oliver less, even though I still like him.

not the Daily Show exactly, but one of JS's best moments imo:

not seen much of him before [*brit alert*] but some fine stuff there

i was watching cougartown last night (and kind of enjoying it) and i tried to think of the last time abc had a sitcom worth watching. i couldn't think of anything.

that larry willmore clip is so hilarious

cougartown reminded me that i used to have a crush on kate from the drew carey show. cuz kate from the drew carey show is on cougartown. and blonde girl from freaks and geeks is on cougartown!

Modern Family is on right before it!

(or after, I watch it on Hulu so I'm not sure)

btw britisher breakdown for some dude:

Various BBC channels- 6.
Various Channel 4 channels- 5.
Sky Sports- 1.

not seen much of him before [*brit alert*] but some fine stuff there - I didn't post the whole interview (it is about 15 min), but def worth checking out. See also: Colbert at the White House correspondents dinner '05.

lol ITV

I like the younger black guy I can never remember the name of.

Wyatt Cenac, iirc.

ha cool, thanks

more stats for US shows:

broadcast networks: 17
basic cable: 13
premium cable: 10

re: cougartown: yeah they know exactly what they were doing w/the casting on that show. too bad it's basically at the level of the later scrubs seasons, veering between ok and whyyyyyyyyyy

i don't know, for some reason i felt like daily show/colbert weren't appropriate for this poll, but it's not like i voted for any reality or news shows anyway

top 5 coming from whenever I can be bothered to type up #5.

*drum roll*

post pictures of cougar lady or gtfo

I have to admit to liking the Daily Show with the smarmy jock anchor better, but mostly because of the constant exploding head clips of Story of Ricky (which he apparently had dibs on, and took with him when he left?)

its monica cox arquette tho right? fuck that noise xp

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5100000/Courteney-On-The-Set-OF-Cougar-Town-courteney-cox-arquette-5169239-500-798.jpg

5. Mad Men (36 votes, 2 first place votes, 6480 points.)
http://trueslant.com/suefrause/files/2009/08/mad-men.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgvKCfZqxrQ

^ totally the clip i was gonna post

http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/tv_cougar_town01.jpg

And blonde one is Busy Phillips right?

really? monica?

jordan from scrubs is still cute but the facial plastic surgery is weiiiiiiiird now, def prefer kim kelly now

her face in that pic above is totally photoshopped

busy phillips is awes and totally deserves to be on this thread.

I have to admit to liking the Daily Show with the smarmy jock anchor better - Craig Kilborn. At the time, I liked the Beth Littleford interviews w/ random eccentrics & washed-up celebrities but, looking back, a lot of that was unnecessarily mean-spirited.

top 5 for Mad Men! where do you stand on this, jjusten?

better than top four i guess

he's SAAAAAD MEN

Weird, saw Mad Men at #5, then scrolled down to huge photo and thought that was Matthew Weiner on the far left.