The Great Televised Rage Machine …or: Why Can’t Joe Accept The Truth?

Joe: Worst show that lasted more than two seasons.

Steve: Oh jeez.
We’ll never get to the bottom of that list.

Joe: Yeah, okay, worst sitcom then.

Steve: Pssh.
Same response.
The Jeff Foxworthy Show.
The George Lopez Show.
Anything with that sort of title.
Grace Under Fire.

Joe: Oh my God, I always forget that show existed until someone brings it up, then I get headaches.

Steve: Yup.

Joe: Okay, how about this: show that should have lasted three years that got cancelled prematurely.

Steve: Firefly.
Dollhouse.
I can see already this list is going to be Whedon-heavy.

Joe: I have one easy answer “The Dana Carvey Show.”

Steve: I thought that show was on for a long time.

Joe: Nope.
Like 4 episodes tops.

Steve: I never actually saw it.
Chappelle’s Show.
It was 3 seasons, but it should have been a lot more.
Same with The Tick.
The animated one, not the crappy-ass live action one.

Joe: The producers said “do a sitcom as if it were a late night show.”
To which Dana replied, “You don’t really want that.”
To which the producers replied, “Yes we do.”
To which Dana Carvey replied:

To which the producers replied “Yeah, we didn’t want that.”

Steve: Huh
So it was terrible?

Joe: Mmmm…it was a late night show with Dana Carvey completely at the helm.
Can’t let artists do whatever they want. You get really amazing stuff and really shitty stuff with no balance.

Steve: I thought you were saying you liked it.

Joe: I did.

Steve: Oh.
Well then you were wrong.
Because this clip is dog shit.

Joe: It’s one small clip.

Steve: Ah.

Joe: Do you remember the election of 1996, Clinton v. Dole?

Steve: Yeah.
Nothing but great Norm MacDonald sketches.

Joe:

Steve: haha
Okay, that was good.

Joe: Watch the opening clip of this.

Steve: Wow, I can’t even get through that one.
No offense Joe, but I would have canceled this show too.
Maybe not quite so quickly.

Joe: You know what’s weird about that show?

Steve: What?

Joe: Steve Carrell, Steven Colbert, the guy who did Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Louis CK were all on it.
That’s a lot of funny in one show.

Steve: Definitely.
I was a huge fan of Dana Carvey’s movies.
You ever see Clean Slate?

Joe: I think so.

Steve: It was great.
And Trapped in Paradise.
With him, John Lovitz and Nick Cage.
That movie was freaking funny.
Not to mention the Wayne’s World duelolloelogy.

Joe: Skip to 11:20 on that last one.

Steve: Nice.
I think I’ve seen that one before.

Joe: Like I said, extremely hit or miss.
If this came on today, it’d be Comedy Central’s best show, but some jackasses put it in primetime in the mid-90′s. Way too soon.

3 Responses to The Great Televised Rage Machine …or: Why Can’t Joe Accept The Truth?

  1. Just saw “Master of Disguise” for the first time. Maybe the worse movie of all time. I was going to suggest “Cop Rock” as worse show of all time, but it was only one season. Imagine that. Show that ended prematurely… “The State”. Best sketch comedy show of all time.

  2. Sketch comedy show from the early ’90′s on MTV. Basically a lot of the people who do Reno 911 and who did Wet Hot American Summer, amongst other things.

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