Nothing against Rita Rudner , but ...

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WTF is the deal with her bizarre 3 AM talk show??? Where she and her guests grapple with some sent-in advice-columnist-style 'problem'? Or rather, they grapple and she conducts a la Bill Maher and then steps in and sets the record straight a la John McLaughlin. These comparisons aside, what would people say are the nearest relatives of this horrific televisual mutation? Like it's somewhere between _______ and ________.

And oh, btw: what is the deal with this format's proliferation? I'm just realizing the Colin Quinn show is another one ... somehow I feel Win, Lose, or Draw is at least implicated ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

there's the Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, AC Slater one too

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The weirdest thing is the canned, cue-card-contained 'riffing' the comics do on a given 'topic' on the Quinn thing ... like they were pundits on a news show reciting the 'off-the-cuff' analyses they're programmed to ...

(*sigh* i think i sorta just answered my own question)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

there's the Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, AC Slater one too

That's the one that's like The Man View, right?

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

at least one of them always wears a sweater

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

enh, i like the colin quinn show, mainly he screws up almost every joke he does, and also becuase they're able to go a full 30 seconds before just insulting each other continuously, which i find to be more entertaining.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There are some good bits ... I really thought the antismoking hysteria thing was wonderfully inappropriate.

(Footage of rolling Israeli tanks, doctored to bear huge "no smoking" signs; every protesting Palestinian has had a cigarette stuck in his or her mouth ...)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My admiration for Rita Rudner has suddenly slid. :(

*wonders if Peter's Friends will replace lost admiration*

― Jane Datsun (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Quinn has good nights and bad nights, usually based on his guests. I can't remember the names of my favorites -- the huge fat black guy, and the good-looking sort-of hispanic looking guy who used to be a lawyer. Big celebrity guests always disappoint, and then there are the nights he has nothing but third rate hacks reciting OLD OLD jokes. It's painful. So every night now, I have to decide whether or not it's better than Futurama on Cartoon Network.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yup, i'm watching cable tv tonight for the first time in months and it was the same thing. new colin quinn show or futurama that i haven't seen.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be from Maura moaning about people (including me) saying she looks like RR.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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