Tosh.0

Wondering if people around here watch/enjoy/hate this show. I realize it's basically "The Soup + Youtube" but I find myself looking forward to new eps of this more than anything else these days. The idea of making fun of Internet videos isn't really new but Tosh is one of the most quick-witted people on TV right now and takes it to another level. I don't know if he's an acquired taste or if people find it easy to put up with his self-important asshole shtick but he really makes the show tick. Also, the "Web Redemption" idea is brilliant. Your thoughts???

Web Redemption is a nice idea, but otherwise I can't stand this guy, and prefer my web clips au naturel.

absolutely hate

i was in a bar a few weeks ago and it was just a few people in there watching this show. they were really into it! didn't really dig his wiseass hayseed persona.

absolutely hate

― am0n, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

web redemption is pretty funny but he mostly seems like kind of a dbag.

yeah it's the seeming like a dbag thing that is so bad. he just seems like he'd be so obnoxious.

You have to watch a few episodes...he is self-aware of what he's doing, at least. Like he does make references to his "asshole" persona and what it means to host a show on Comedy Central and it's pretty funny.

show costs about $5 to produce i guess. i assumed it was a public access show when i started watching

I don't think I could make it through a few episodes.

I will give him this much: he is better than Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia.

ive seen part of this show twice and it was racist/sexist/creepy/entitled to an extent where i was kind of like 'HAY!'

xp No kidding...super glad he's starting to gain some popularity while Cook is fading rapidly and Mencia is basically a nobody at the moment

Wish it was Jeselnik.0 tbh

he can be very funny, and i like the web redemptions and some of the other pre-filmed gags. but it's a shame he has to lean on the self aware-racist-irony thing so much. more than once every third episode or so and it really loses its punch really fast.

unusually tight body for a comedian

the show would obviously be improved if he were deleted from it, but would people watch a show of clips presented without comment?
what a strange paradox.

Dude seems racist, unless it's supposed to be ironic hipster racism but either way fuck him.

I suddenly feel nostalgic for the days when annoying clipshow hosts were just faceless voiceovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAg-3hd6ko

like 'gods biggest boners' from wonder showzen

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/127372/wonder-showzen-gods-biggest-boners.jhtml

this show is pretty funny, feel like he's got enough wit to kind of elevate the show above other lame attempts to turn web videos into a TV show. i like that his humor has a 'mean' edge, when he says offensive stuff it definitely feels a little more purposeful and self-aware button-pushing than anything else, although i can see how that doesn't make it any better to some people.

Kinda wanted to like this show, especially after seeing him smoke salvia and try to eat crackers, but dude is really racist.

sub-talk soup

my feelings from the stand up thread

i like tosh.0 a lot as a show but he definitely crosses the line b/w making race jokes & using comedy as an excuse to be a racist

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:23 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tosh.0 is good! like it's entertaining & it deals w/ internet memes in a better & funnier fashion than the whole internet & most other pop culture mediums -- i think it has a great balance b/w 'the soup'-style playing a video and saying zingy one liners & field pieces (one of the best ones is w/ the guy from the nyer article that was stuck in an elevator) -- his field pieces are almost always amazing

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest

the web redemption segments are usually much more entertaining than anything else on the show. i think he just must be funnier when interacting with people.

excepting that whole saltine/cinnamon/coconut/salvia challenge thing from the first episode. that makes me laugh every time i watch it.

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/kid-car-breakdown

i always assumed i'd hate this show but i sat down and watched a few episodes of it and he's actually pretty sharp and funny. hard to excuse the ironic racism/sexism though.

can you post clips of this supposedly good stuff? everything I've seen so far is worse than leno.
when bob saget delivered those terrible lines there was a look in his eyes like his soul was withering away bit by bit.
when tosh.o delivers those terrible lines there's nothing there to wither away.

nunez going ham

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/web-redemption---stuck-in-an-elevator

also the one with the news reporter kid that kept trying to break the window w/ a hammer

yikes, had to post after that PP link. yeah, can't rep for this dude. the stuff i saw wasn't that level.

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/web-redemption---reporter-who-can-t-break-glass

i like that he asks his subjects about masturbation whenever possible

altho getting gallagher involved is certainly not going to help w/ the whole racism thing

i think it was just on comedy central's website, but the uncut version of him doing the Human Centipede spoiler alert was lols

did the elevator guy play the one-armed supply-store manager in sunshine cleaning?
I agree it's much better than the web-clip carnival of snide remarks I've seen so far.
you've raised my estimation of tosh.o to slightly below jamie kennedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgNK_r47TOc

i like that his humor has a 'mean' edge, when he says offensive stuff it definitely feels a little more purposeful and self-aware button-pushing than anything else, although i can see how that doesn't make it any better to some people.

Yeah he definitely straddles the line pretty hard; I mean it's not like he doesn't rip on white people all the time too. One of my favorite Tosh bits was this video made by a 7-year old that basically took apart the show for how unfunny and lazy it could be. I think he just runs and says whatever he thinks is funny regardless of who it may offend. Like he's trying to hit one demographic really hard (people who are like Daniel Tosh) rather than appeal to a wider base (something he references quite a bit, actually)

Some of the Web Redemptions are classic BTW. The Average Homeboy one is incredible. In addition to being funny they are actually pretty good as character pieces. Definitely some interesting people out there and I like how Tosh is pretty much comfortable with everyone. My only complaint is that they haven't featured Eli Porter...that would be such a slam dunk

ok, that salvia bit was pretty great.

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/extreme-salvia-challenge

Wish it was Jeselnik.0 tbh

Is he not writing for Fallon's show anymore? I haven't seen him do a bit in forever. (Still think he's a jackass, but was curious.)

I think he's still with Fallon? Not sure.

I haven't seen enough to get a comprehensive picture of his meanness, but it comes across as standard obligatory meanness. He's mean because the culture of commentary demands that he be mean, and I don't even sense that he particularly delights in being mean (and in the two web redemptions posted, he's not mean at all). It's a joyless meanness. At least on TMZ there's a kind of cheer to their meanness.

Maybe there can be an Andrew WK of being mean who can topple Tosh.O from his perch.

the show -- like the soup -- needs to be mean to be successful, but it doesn't need to be casually racist/sexist/homophobic etc

Mean is fine as long as it's also funny. I just don't find Tosh funny.

Has a non-mean web clips show ever been tried? I figure one hosted by concerned grandmothers would be a hit.
After every atrocity clip you can cut to them going, "Oh dear! I hope that fellow is okay."
And then they can give grandmotherly advice, like, "baking soda will get that murder stain right out."
Or, "I, too, saw a double rainbow... the day we were rescued from Dachau"

I haven't seen enough to get a comprehensive picture of his meanness, but it comes across as standard obligatory meanness. He's mean because the culture of commentary demands that he be mean, and I don't even sense that he particularly delights in being mean (and in the two web redemptions posted, he's not mean at all). It's a joyless meanness. At least on TMZ there's a kind of cheer to their meanness.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 6:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

if you ever saw Tosh's standup you'd know that being mean is his m.o., it's not just something he adapted for the format of the show. and ymmv i guess but i totally think he's having fun with it.

Has a non-mean web clips show ever been tried? I figure one hosted by concerned grandmothers would be a hit.
After every atrocity clip you can cut to them going, "Oh dear! I hope that fellow is okay."

this would be the greatest thing on tv

America's Funniest Home Videos was pretty much the proto-YouTube clip show and the jokes/commentary on there was generally pretty toothless

the show -- like the soup -- needs to be mean to be successful, but it doesn't need to be casually racist/sexist/homophobic etc

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:37 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i can't seem to remember instances of homophobia in Tosh.0. his character has always seemed to have ambiguous sexuality.

(i could be totally wrong, though, if anyone wants to link me otherwise)

one of the most hilarious things they ever did on the show was when they did a comedy bit involving Tommy Lee, and directly afterward showed an e-mail from Tommy's assistant asking whether Tosh was gay or straight.

I loved the bit where they pretended to give the N64 kid a Jetski, followed by all the voice mails the kid left with the show's receptionist asking where it was...in their defense that kid was kind of douchey

Dude seems racist, unless it's supposed to be ironic hipster racism but either way fuck him.

― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've heard this stuff called "machete comedy" - all edge, no point

yeah well I'm kind of sick of comedians who have a point

Quelle surprise

Joel McHale is hosting the Independent Spirit Awards and he just made a joke about how Daniel Tosh will be hosting it next year #shotsfired

loool

They had Phil Davidson on this week (the guy who gave that ridiculously amped up campaign speech for county Treasurer); it was really awesome to find out that the guy apparently does a lot of drugs (and has no problem admitting it) and that a bunch of people got freaked out and walked out on his speech. Some of it was really funny - "do you think you would have won had you apologized for your tone that night?", but I really thought they were going to do so much more with the presidential campaign joke, it really seemed like it could be Tosh.0's funniest moment ever but instead kind of devolved into a stupid and unrelated joke...still one of the best Web Redemptions

dont get why this show is so great. annoying.

a recent episode had a bunch of vague references to Tosh having beef with Conan, what was that about?

his racial stuff seems 2011 version of Howard Stern, who seems to be generally worshipped by hipsters, so I don't get it.

yeah what's the deal with hipsters all worshiping Howard Stern

some dude, i'm flattered by the hard-on you have for me, but others may be bored

you can take it personal if you want, but saying that hipsters love Howard Stern is hilariously strange and i would've responded like that if anyone else had said it! but anyway tell us more about your hard-on for Tosh, that's never boring.

al, was he not talking about mchale?

i just assumed he was bcuz of the joke he made at the SAG awards or w/e it was that he was hosting

Joel McHale, not Tosh, has 'racial stuff'?

a recent episode had a bunch of vague references to Tosh having beef with Conan, what was that about?

― JaySeanLilWayne (some dude), Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:19 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i was referring to this

oh (how was i supposed to know that?) -- nah Tosh was specifically referencing a 'late night host' and at one point they teased it with the Conan silhouette logo on the greenscreen.

http://deadspin.com/5803183/who-wants-to-see-daniel-tosh-get-punched-in-the-face-by-manny-pacquiao

i could watch this all day!

just laughed at one of his race jokes, not saying what in this post-Tracy Morgan world

once upon a post-tracy morgan world, a little girl gazed across the veldt

she looked against the sunset, where a black man stood

– or was it a white man, silhouetted by the sun? –

but nevermind, she gazed at him nonetheless and decided that he would be her true love

she decided this based upon no racial, genetic, or cultural markers, for she stood at such a distance that such things were inscrutable and, for that matter, so was his gender

the little girl stood puzzled (or did she sit, crippled by the sickening water of some apocolyptic plague?) and wondered at the patriarchal construct of her love

she was pretty drunk

looks like Rob Drydek is essentially re-doing this show on MTV

the sudden fame of this is astounding. from what I've heard, Comedy Central definitely nearly pulled the plug on this one right away too (as they're known to do) but kept it as it was so cheap to produce.

This show is great. Does all the work for me when I want to laugh at people breaking their limbs.

i'm already on the internet and tosh himself isn't funny. this show is pointless.

well done remy, 2 months ago

xp - I've heard this criticism a lot and honestly don't get it, I agree the show can feel a lot like clicking random youtube videos but there's really a lot more to it, plus the "web redemption" idea is genius

more like Racist.1

omg remy

I for one cannot believe that this show A) had Eli Porter on, B) did not find Envy, and C) didn't even do another rap battle. This had the potential to be the best Web Redemption ever and instead turned into a Skylar Gray showcase, which for Tosh is way out of character.

pretty ambivalent about the CC show, but me & gf had free tickets to see him last night and not gonna lie: the dude killed.

also opener kyle kinane def worth your time

kyle kinane is one of my favorite comedians right now, SUCH a good storyteller.

lot of talk about kinane in the stand-up 2011 thread iirc

there's not much in life that I'm willing to disregard out of hand without having seen it but Tosh.0 fits the bill.
also applause to remy.

Wow, remy's posts from last summer!

I like the term 'machete humor'. His whole persona is that guy who did or could have made high school a living hell so it's weird when he dorks out and when he's nice to people. He's part bully, part clown and part desperate for approval while at the same time pushing loads of buttons and grinning about it.

Def high school vibe. He reminds me of the popular guy who talks to ugly people while his friends watched from a distance, and makes it totally seem like he's a nice guy but he's really playing some long con with you and uggggghhhh I just get so many bad high school memory vibes off him I can barely stand to watch even a few minutes of him.

the season finale was pretty amazing - they auctioned off all the show memorabilia from seasons past and put all the proceeds on one hand of blackjack (they lost)

yeah this guy and his show are awful

http://gawker.com/5924948/comedy-central-host-daniel-tosh-should-not-tell-people-how-funny-it-would-be-if-they-were-raped

yeah this guy's a winner

whose sock is frogbs

― am0n, Thursday, February 24, 2011

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