what the hell is this rob cordry sitcom i'm watching?

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is it supposed to be funnily unfunny? is this really an ongoing premise?

― LaMonte, Monday, 19 March 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

it is funny

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

hes like an old guy who acts yung cuz he never gets laid,,and o th things u will see..hahahahahahaha,,cordry tromps all comp....he wore a toupee and i laffed at that alone

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

so this is basically "get a life" with rob cordry instead of chris elliott?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 19 March 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

he's pretty funny in it. and yeah get a life kinda.

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

it even takes place during the same time as "get a life"!

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 19 March 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

loved the cosby sweater in the second episode tonight. and it's always nice to see peg bundy on fox.

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

The most disturbing part of this show is the end when someone touches the creeps boob and he says "Candy Bar" in some odd voice. Don't know if the screen picture will work.
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― svend, Monday, 19 March 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

Errr..
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― svend, Monday, 19 March 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

im pretty sure that rick britt the guy that the show is based on

― chaki, Monday, 19 March 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

Katie Sagal just keeps getting more and more babely. Rob Corrdy should do cartoon voices.

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

yea 2xnd on kateysagals ever spiralling temp towards burstability..if her cosmeticsurge is on this boards..thumbss upp dood

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

GLAAD just called me and said they dont like th notion that there is a wrong gender to be attracted to..cuz it all happens in th womb or sumthing

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I like that this show is actually progressing already! The entire conceit of setting it in the 90s and having the narration coming from a present-day version of Cordry's character will be horrible if they don't stick with it, though.

― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

is it supposed to be funnily unfunny?

that's the new way, man. the post-arrested development thing.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

nah, it's more normal fox sitcom than arrested development. it's not trying to reinvent the funny.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

arrested development always reminded me of soap.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

otm with that

the whole future-narrative thing is also a "how i met yr. moms" type thing i think? nice gimmick at first but i think it'll wear thin in all cases.

― s.clover, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

soap was a great frickin show.

The new Cordry thing is a giant turd, in every possible way. It blows. It will last two weeks, and then will get axed, and will have gotten what was coming to it. Srsly... cordry, you suck. Don't you know better than this?

― kenan, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:35 (eighteen years ago)

i'm still not sure how to read scott's comment... to me it = "sucks in the same way as soap" but uh, apparently at least kenan liked it. so maybe there were more.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:40 (eighteen years ago)

soap was Very Much the arrested development of its day, I think. Good comparison.

― kenan, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:46 (eighteen years ago)

and this rob cordry shit is just bullshit.

― kenan, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

soap was Very Much the arrested development of its day, I think.

see, again...

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

lol I just realized Katey Sagal: Always With A Bald Guy (not counting Futurama)

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

I just went to try to find this Corddry interview that I thought was in the Onion, which was sort of a preemptice strike against criticism of him doing a sitcom. It was really honest, and he talks about leaving the Daily Show after growing to hate the kneejerk audience reaction to the humor there, etc. It's a good read... still searching...

As for "The Winner" - at my old job, I read the script ages ago when it was called "Becoming Glen," and before it was majorly tamed down, and it was actually pretty funny (even more sophomoric, though - literally every joke was about masturbating, smoking pot, or taking a shit). I haven't seen the version that's on the air, though, but the trailers looked heinous. Chaki's right, the guy above is Ricky Blitt, who created the show and is some kind of Farrelly Brothers entourage-dude.

― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

it's better than "the war at home"

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

but so is ebola.

"how i met your mother" is way funnier than this show.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

That is probably all NPH though. He is good on that show.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Did Soap have a condescending voice over explaining simple things that we can figure out for ourselves easily enough going over the entirety of the show?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

hat is probably all NPH though. He is good on that show.

nickalicious on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:43 AM (1 minute ago)

word doogie is the bomb on that show. he totally makes it. i like the doofy guy marshall too, and also the band camp chick.

2 and a half men is pretty good too. cbs reppin' old school sitcoms.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Voiceover on this show or Arrested Development? I thought the condescending nature of the AD voiceover ("and THAT is how you narrate a story") was like 75% of the charm.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus Christ, Thermo, that was one of the running gags on "Arrested Development."

― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Is this the Rob Corddry interview?
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/03/rob_corddry_1.php

― Chris H., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

i like the winner okay. i like most sitcoms though. i really do like how i met your mother/old christine/two&ahalf men. i never miss them. but i really dislike CBS's other monday nite shows, the class and the one with puddy and spade. though last nite's episode where spade's girlfriend only spoke in double entendre was kind of a good gag. i dunno, it's still mostly bad. poorly made. the class just has one of the single most unappealing casts ever assembled. they are all the kind of people you watch t.v. to forget about. maybe they were going for "quirky". what they ended up with was "ugly" and "unfunny". no disrespect to ritter's son, but he ain't no john ritter.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I opted to unplug my tv antenna for the rest of the week after realizing yesterday that I keep getting bored and eating leftover pizza while watching the shows scott mentioned on monday nights despite my ongoing disinterest in the standard american sitcom genre. ugh.

The Patrick Warburton / David Spade one (didn't they have the dude from American Pie, the nerdy one, on this originally as the younger engaged guy?) is going nowhere fast. The NPH one is fun for him playing up the charismatic pick-up guy and the rest of the writing is a little above average, but it's like a balance between those scenes and leering at the women on screen. 2 1/2 Men is Charlie Sheen playing up a fictionalized, more family-friendly version of himself while the John Cryer role gets more insufferable each episode.

The War at Home is so completely unbearable, much like Michael Rappaport.

― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

yeah word up on the class.....just terrible. it just reinforces for me how actually good "how i met your mother is"

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so disappointed in Puddy's show, I love Patrick Warburton and hate to see him not funny.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

lol I just realized Katey Sagal: Always With A Bald Guy (not counting Futurama)

uh, and not counting 8 Simple Rules either. in fact I'm not even sure what you mean at all, are you just basing that on Corddry and the kinda sorta bald Al Bundy?

Rules Of Engagement is pretty decent (I'll watch almost anything with Warburton in it) but the young engaged couple are terrible, just lousy comic actors who are seriously outclassed by Puddy and Spade and even the lady from Grounded For Life. It's been the same guy since the beginning but if they did originally case someone else from American Pie they couldn't have been worse than the guy they ended up with. I like all of CBS's trad three-camera sitcoms on Monday night to varying degrees, though. Even The Class, for all its faults, has a few funny characters, including the goth chick from Mean Girls who is suddenly super hot. And after starting off with way too many characters in unrelated plotlines each episode, they've gradually started to pare down the cast to mostly the more tolerable characters. I won't cry if they cancel it to make room for Christine or even Rules, though.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

i just hate when a dog doesn't die cuz it's tied to a hit. anything on after two & a half men will do pretty good cuz men is such a big hit. although they got rid of jenna elfman's horrible show pretty quick not that long ago. and that horrible henry winkler/stockard channing show. though i don't know if they had good lead-ins. i just shudder when i remember how long yes,dear was on the air cuz it followed raymond or some other big show. the class should disappear. plus, it was mean of them to drag sara gilbert onto the show as awful redhead dude's sullen wife. she deserves better. (i don't think anyone watched the horrible show Twins that she did with melanie griffith *shudder*. sooo bad. so sad. poor darlene...)

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I think having 2.5 Men as a lead-in is helpful, but it's not everything. Rules got better ratings in its first night than Christine or anything else had gotten in that timeslot before (probably because it has a pretty identical macho male viewpoint about chicks and marriage and all that). So there's definitely a difference between the show after it being a hit, and just doing OK and surviving, as in the case of Christine, on the goodwill of the star and an early Emmy win. Networks can stack half-hour sitcoms in alternating hit-newshow-hit-newshow format any night of the week, but we all know what a revolving door those spots after Friends and Seinfeld were, so coming on after a solid hit is no guarantee.

And I liked Twins! Although it's a lot easier to like a show and commit to watching it every week when it's painfully obvious that commitment won't extend past the first season.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

The narration on AD is a running gag?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

i thought this was funny

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― danbunny, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

"Oh I love nicknames,instead of Byron,my girlfriend calls me Byro"...hahahahahahaha

― danbunny, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

i just think that darlene looks so sad on t.v. like she wants to do something else, but this is the easiest route to take. she doesn't embrace it, like, say, the cast of Reba does. Or did. is Reba still on? In space it will be on forever.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

That "sad" face is just gravity.

― danbunny, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

haha I guess my Katey Sagal Bald Guy theory is based entirely on Married..., LOST, and this show.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like all the saucy stuff they have that kid on two and a half men say

― A B C, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

they have a young kid doin jerk off and titty jokes on th codry show too

― danbunny, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

At least that kid's not hanging out in smokey pool halls with Charlie Sheen all day, unless they happen to know each other through other avenues

― A B C, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

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