Its funny they've tried hard to come up with a ton of shows, and one thing you can say about comedy central is theres no way you could blame a show failing because they "never promoted it."
The Great Shows for Me:
Colbert Report-Still Rocking
The Daily Show-Not as great as it once was, but still hilarious at times
South Park-New ones aren't always funny but certain new ones have been golden
Scrubs reruns-Amazing show, fell in love with it on CC and had never watched before.
Chappelle's Show-Great, but I'm never going to watch it again, sick of seeing the same episodes
Good Shows:
Mind of Mencia-A copy? Sorta and yes he is an idiot himself when he says things like you just don't laugh cuz you're too PC when some things just aren't funny, but the show does have very funny moments
Sarah Silverman Program-Too much toilet humor but still has its moments
Drawn Together-Over the top offensive is annoying, and episodes always end in kill so and so like Supernanny or Veggie Tales, etc. Also has its funny moment and references
Stella-Great shorts, never would have worked on CC's censoring, came out only ok, they needed HBO or something
Dog Bites Man-Hilarious, made me laugh a lot, just not one of my top ones, but I knew this was going down the drain.
Reno 911-Not as funny as it started out but still got some laughs
Insomniac-A show for me I would never turn on to watch but once it was on I'd love it
Tough Crowd-Enjoyable poking fun at each other and at issues mixed with real discussions and opinions, good time
Win Ben Stein's Money-Jimmy Kimmel didn't let it get too serious, great writing for the funny categories.
Crank Yankers-On and off funny, some skits completely bust while others are very amusing.
The Man Show-Adam and Jimmy hit their stride and all the episodes entertained, Doug and Joe HORRIBLE
Strangers with Candy-Very funny parts not always a hilarious show
Distraction-Funny comedian, but not enough behind the premise to keep it going on CC
Mad TV reruns-Sometimes funny, mixed in with a lot of bad sketches
I'm With Busey-I couldn't help watching this show in amazement even though it should have been garbage. Some moments very funny.
Halfway Home-Nothing spectacular, but I have laughed some watching it.
Upright Citizen's Brigade-Again an off and on show for me, some episodes didn't work at all, some brilliantly all came together.
Battlebots-For its time period, great show, but never should be brought back.
Trigger Happy TV-I always found myself laughing at great stuff like the large cell phone guy, the sad penguin, the sex bunnies etc.
And now for the Garbage:
Naked Trucker and T Bones Show-Oh god...
Blue Collar TV-Never understood the appeal
Con-I'm happy for the guy he got his own show after winning two gameshows Whammy and Dog Eats Dog and now hes in movies and stuff (Skyler Stone) but this show was overall crap
Wanda Does It-What the hell was this???
That's My Bush-Wanted to love it, really
Lil Bush-About 6 years too late to be funny
Freak Show-Really unfunny
Beat the Geeks-Fun sometimes, overall boring
Dr. Katz-Maybe I was too young when I saw this show to "get it" so I shouldn't really judge
Make Me Laugh-Show thats novelty wore off quick
Don't Forget Your Toothbrush-NOTHING compared to the English version, NOTHING
Crossballs-The faking it doesn't usually come across very well and usually didn't upset the guests, which made this pretty unfunny of a show.
And at least one show that was forgotten that I would put in the middle category, So Graham Norton-Funny, usually dirty, did very unique things
Thats probably all I remember or saw. That was fun.
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strike_back
17 years ago
two things
one. con was alright. and skyler stone is getting out there because of con and velcro, his comedy troupe. he just finished a movie with danny devito, was in that christopher guest movie, waiting, and few others. he also just signed for a show on fox, which has about a good of streak cancelling shows as CC
two.mencia is a bitch. all he is, is a substitute because dave chappelle quit.
And we will send you to whatever God you wish.. =BOONDOCK SAINT #1=
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SquallLeonhartE
16 years ago
I pretty much agree with people on failures.
MadTV:
I still can't believe they could trade classic SNL for MadTV. MadTV is so ridiculously unfunny. Every sketch is either based on a returning character in the same comedic scenario that has been tired and played out for years (Miss Swan, Stewart), or a poop joke that they somehow stretch out into 3 minutes.
Mind of Mencia:
Carlos Mencia's original standup was fantastic. His CC Presents is still one of my favorites because a lot of the things he talks about are funny, hard-hitting, and true. Mind of Mencia however, is an abomination. He's been trying to stretch out that first CC Presents for what, 4 or 5 seasons now? It's getting old. Not only that, I can't believe that all the play between him and the audience is just random people who came to see the show. Maybe I'm wrong, but to me it seems way too staged. Dave Chappelle had a niche for the racial humor, but it's one that it seems no one else has.
Those are the main two I have a problem with. Show's like Naked Trucker, Stella, Sarah Silverman, Lil' Bush...when I see the first commercial, the first thing always pops in my head is "Well that's gonna fail. Good job CC." I do at least give the show a watch first, at least once. So far, I haven't felt wrong.
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Iceman_x21
16 years ago
"And I can't figure out what everyone hates about Carlos Mencia, I've been known to laugh my butt off while watching this show, and he even uses common sens (Dee De DEE!)."
- I didnt have such a problem until he directly ripped off a bit from Bill Cosby. sure he changed the joke a little but it was still the same joke (youtube it if you want) he is funny at times but i no longer feel compelled to stay up or tape his shows to watch the next day, he rips off way too much and uses race for all his jokes, what he is doing is simply making observations, with prejudice as a additive.
STELLA is perhaps the greatest show outside of chappelle's, and South Park that i have seen on CC (i believe that the Colbert report and The Daily show are obvious good shows that dont need to be stated, but im stating them anyway so you wont get pissed at me for having seemingly left them out) the group, is hilarious and their show was equally hilarious, they are completely random and utilized my favorite type of comedy taking jokes and or situations til they barely make sense while at the same time keeping it funny.
And the guy who said scrubs was horrible has obviously not seen anything from season 3 on ( the first 2 seasons were great but are nothing compared to when the show finally started to flow (in my opinion S3 on)) and its also not a CC original, NBC in association w/ ABC studios.
And CC didnt willingly give up SNL, E! entertainment bought the rights to the re-runs, and CC tried to fill the lack of a sketch comedy show, and sadly there is no other sketch comedy on the level of SNL so they got the closest thing to it MadTV- a huge downgrade but not terrible.
And with most of the crap shows featuring comedians, why doesnt Daniel Tosh try pitching a pilot to CC instead of one of the local broadcastors, if CC picks up some of the crap they do surely they'll pick up something from this genius. (you might have seen his special Completely serious- this guy is freaking hilarious)
Maxim last issue: Chazz Michael Michaels is Figure Skating....BOOM!
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