FRASIER vs. NEWSRADIO

This show also has the second-most slap-bassingest theme song of the 1990s.

it's such a weird fusion-y theme to find yourself singing along to

what's the episode where beth makes a dress out of columbia house cds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUWi0h5aRi8

Maybe it isn't that one.

yah that's what i was thinking of.

4:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7GEIeicuY0

So, if you haven't seen this show before, is it worth a shot? I'm curious and have basically run out of all other tv to watch.

YES

YES

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haha god bless youtube. was disappointed to find it's not on netflix anymore. amazon prime? nope. somebody upload full episodes to youtube? yes, several seasons.

a couple years ago the Reelz channel was padding out their schedule with sitcom reruns and was playing 2 episodes of Newsradio a day, really enjoyed that while it lasted. don't think it's run anywhere else since then, seems like it may never.

yeah it was all over the place in syndication for awhile but it's been a long time since i've seen it. paul simms, the guy who created it, hasn't really done much since. he wrote for letterman and then larry sanders before that and post newsradio there's a few (and i do mean few, like 5 in total) episodes of various hbo shows (girls, boardwalk empire, flight of the conchords) he's done but other than that and one pilot w/ matthew broderick that didn't get picked up there's been nothing. every other 'this show was underappreciated' creator i can think of gets a second act, albeit not always one i'm happy to find out about (dude who created better off ted - also a funny show, though no newsradio - bounced back w/ sean saves the world), this guy one great show and that's it.

there's a dvd collection that has every episode. the commentaries are disappointing -- they were really trying to make a crappy friends clone.

god, maura tierney

no joke

Watching Newsradio all day instead of working is a pretty sweet consolation prize for being sick as shit and couch-ridden. God, I love this show so much. Maybe my favorite three-camera sitcom of all time.

Very glad to see that my search for 'newsradio oral history' was not in vain: http://uproxx.com/tv/newsradio-oral-history/

all five seasons of newsradio are on prime now!!! i don't think it has ever been on any of the big streaming services before? i know there was a season or two if it on crackle or one of those weird ones

although it is hard to watch hartman episodes now because of the weird sideways association of andy dick with his death.

And was eventually on Celebrity Rehab, trying to get his son to get him out of jail.

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Iirc, Andy Dick played some part in recovering addict Brynn Hartman going off the wagon and ultimately killing Phil.

That allegation is why Jon Lobito beat the shit out of Andy Dick

Lol LOVITZ, thanks phone

"I see now, that the title of the book is... Macho Business Donkey Wrestler. I had it translated into Japanese and back into English..."

Frasier is faster, louder, more flamboyantly stylized than Newsradio: frequently calculated to farcical peaks, with doors slamming and people running around yelling, repartee and punchlines, but also w room for romantic, sentimental xp "serious" passages, incl. some resolutions--in that way deviating from otherwise somewhat Sienfeldian approach, the basic rule of which is "No learning, no group hugs"---still works in a screwball comedy-romance way, even though Frasier is huffnpuff express, not like William Powell's cruise control.
NewsRadio's characters get flustered and all, but never as fast and loud as Frazier (which is more like atage comedy, the kind of play that might have been [at least hoping to be] the basis for a William Powell etc. flick). The players, who all seem like sketch comedy company vets, as Foley and Root and Hartman and maybe others were, know when and how to draw it in a little, not overemphasizing the Funny part, cos all funny enough to get by, Not brittle-edgy like Seinfeld, but closer to it in terms of going for pure comedy than Frasier's many and sometimes too many nods to plush mush (while still making title character the butt of well-earned joeks before and after the sentiments)

Both are maybe a little tedious sometimes? Haven't seen NewsRadio and a while, but Frasier's on late nights Hallmark Channel or something close to that on the grid, so one of my housemates has it on fairly often

maura tierney tho

She would still tip the scales to Newsradio, yeah pretty sure. Always seems truly disturbed by craziness, as Jane Leeves does not (always).

Leeves a tad more overtly professional/om the nose.

on the nose, no om about it

obv phil hartman is amazing in newsradio but i don't think i truly appreciated how great stephen root was in it too. incredible comedic performance.

andy dick and joe rogan are both terrible people in their own ways but at least dick is very funny in this show. rogan is just kind of flat and boring.

apparently vicki lewis was in a relationship with nick nolte for like 10 years

andy dick (was) a genuinely hilarious talented person at one time. sad/dark stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9IXNDBKKqo

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oops

Damn, Mastodon...

Anyways, it was about this cursed set of images (which you probably shouldn't watch either):

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