Andy Richter Doesn't Know Your Name

that quintuplets show is the most bewilderingly bad show with a great lead on network television.

Fox should have given Andy Richter Controls the Universe more of a shot instead of foisting Quintuplets upon an unsuspecting public.

it has that mini-douche from punk'd on it. thumbs down.

it is unbearable but I always watch it when I run across it on television. I don't know why. How could they kill Andy Richeter Controls the Universe? It had Paget Brewster on it!

Paget Brewster is the biggest TV crush I've ever had.

poor poor andy.

At least Fox seems to be putting a little more effort into Arrested Development.

Was PB the boss or the secretary (they were both hottttttttt)

she was the boss. she used to be a bartender in san francisco and then finagled her own talk show on cable access. I keep waiting for her to reach superstardom. when will it happen?

Did she ever write anything? Like in a magazine maybe? Shit. THis is ringing a big fat bell...

She was on "Friends" as a woman that left Joey for Chandler.

Why I can't see this pic from my work PC:

Blocked by Web$en$e Category: Tasteless

WHAT THE HELL?!?!??

your work firewall wouldn't know taste if it came up and kicked it in the ass!

it's the masturbating bear.
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After licking the screen repeatedly, I can confirm that the yummy-looking picture posted above is indeed tasteless.

Starting this Sunday, Paget Brewster will be in a new Showtime series called Huff, with Hank Azaria. I don't get Showtime and am therefore sad.

I remember that she wrote some humorous articles for some magazine, but I can't remember which one it was. The articles used to be available online but I can't find them. Google seems to think it was Femme Fatales.

I don't think I ever read Femme Fatales.

Just moved on the wires:
Hank Azaria plays introspective shrink in new U.S. cable series Huff
By Bridget Byrne
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Huff, his wife and his dog are sleeping peacefully. Then the dog stirs, a security alarm goes off and Huff and Beth are suddenly wide awake, confronting the latest crisis in their lives.
This scene on a soundstage for Showtime’s new series Huff seems an apt metaphor — it’s all about waking up psychologically and emotionally.
Premiering Sunday night on the Movie Network and Movie Central (check local listings), the show stars Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig (Huff) Huffstodt, a psychiatrist who gets a new perspective on life after a gay teenage patient commits suicide in front on him.
Believe it or not, the show’s a comedy, albeit an existential one.
“I got the concept somewhere from my own personal shrink. Yes, I admit I’m in therapy,” says Bob Lowry, the creator and executive producer. “The suicide in Act 1 is Huff’s wake-up call, if you will, which triggers him to not only be reflective and examine his life, but to make every attempt to embrace everything that is put before him on a daily basis.”
“We don’t flinch,” Azaria says between scenes. “We don’t look away. We explore mental illness, from the severe to the slight.”
Azaria, too, is open about being in therapy, “on and off for 15 years.” It’s helped him through difficult times, including his divorce from Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, star of the sitcom Mad About You in which he had a recurring role as Nat, the dog walker.
Paget Brewster, last seen in the short-lived Fox sitcom Andy Richter Controls the Universe, plays Huff’s wife, Beth. Blythe Danner is his manipulative mother, Izzy. Oliver Platt plays his charming but substance-abusing best friend, and Andy Comeau his brother, an institutionalized schizophrenic.
The Bob Newhart Show from the 1970s notwithstanding, there’s always been a bias against developing TV shows about mental health professionals, says Robert Greenblatt, Showtime’s president of entertainment.
“The feeling was that people outside New York and L.A. really don’t go to shrinks, and if they do, there’s a stigma and they don’t want to admit they go,” Greenblatt says.
But he thinks now “there is much more openness in the rest of the country to these kind of ideas about getting help and putting yourself on the right track as opposed to ignoring problems.”
In 2002 Azaria starred in Imagine That as a comedy writer whose fantasies and marriage counselling sessions inspired his work, but NBC cancelled the sitcom after just two episodes.
Lowry thinks Azaria is ideal for Huff because he’s both funny and “has great emotional depth . . . someone who doesn’t miss any of the subtleties.”
While on hiatus between seasons of Huff (Showtime has already ordered a second year) Azaria will star in the stage musical Monty Python’s Spamalot, a spoof on the Camelot legend adapted from the British comedy troupe’s 1975 movie Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
Set to open on Broadway in March, the production is directed by Mike Nichols, who helmed the movie The Birdcage in which Azaria played houseboy to a gay couple.
As a kid, the New York-born Azaria memorized the script of The Holy Grail. Acting out all the characters was an early example of his chameleon-like vocal skills, now famous because of his numerous voice portrayals on The Simpsons.
Azaria won three Emmys for his work on the animated series and another for the 2000 ABC-TV movie Tuesdays with Morrie, co-starring the late Jack Lemmon.
He recently wrote, directed and starred in the short movie Nobody’s Perfect, about a man in possession of magic glasses that make him able to see how a relationship will end.
It’s a concept he says was prompted by an “older and wiser” attitude to dating again after his divorce.

The article mentions half of this, but it's probably worth pointing out that Showtime ordered a second year of Huff before they'd even sent out review copies of the pilot, much less shown it to the public. That's not as remarkable as it would be if we were talking about Fox or ABC instead of a pay cable net that hasn't yet earned HBO's reputation as a DVD boxed set manufacturer, but still. I'm looking forward to it.

Ways in which Huff is similar to Monk:

1) Name of the show is lead characters' surname or variation thereof, which has developed into a monosyllabic nickname.

2) Psychiatry: Huff is a psychiatrist; Monk regularly visits one for his OCD.

3) New outlook on life triggered by someone's death: Huff's patient, Monk's wife.

4) Azaria and Shalhoub both settling into leading role after years of playing various vaguely "ethnic" (usually Hispanic/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern) supporting characters.

It's a way to be white and not white at the same time.

I'm watching Huff right now. Seems pretty good so far.

The pilot came on DVD with the New Entertainment Weekly. I guess I'll have to watch it.

I like how I turned this thread into a Paget Brewster thread! You can pay me back later, Paget!

God knows my name, though.

This show should have been called "Andy Richter Doesn't Even Know Who You Are."