The New Comedies Are Awful.

[Guy Gardener]

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is spectacular, Angel from Hell has already been cancelled, but the rest of the freshman comedies: I wouldn't touch with yours, which is a childish way of saying that I am not at all impressed.

Tick as many of these stinkers as you want, to define them as stinkers who stink stunk stank.

Did I miss any?

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

You forgot Dr. Ken, Angie Tribeca, & Life in Pieces.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Fixed.

Angie is trying to be Airplane the TV Show, and it does that well, but I don't like it.

Life in Pieces is a cheap rip off of Modern family, but I like it.

Dr. Ken is the worst.

 

[SPCTRE]

never heard of any of these, am I shifting between parallel realities again

oh wait there's the Muppets

 

[urbandefault]

I've seen a few episodes of Life in Pieces. It's ok, but not on my must see list. Haven't bothered with any of the rest.

 

[Guy Gardener]

never heard of any of these, am I shifting between parallel realities again

oh wait there's the Muppets

Angie Tribecca dumped her load in one day. 12 episodes? I watched 4.

The rest have been around between 5ish and 15ish episodes, all still in their first season despite a few of these serieses starting before the Christmas Hiatus.

Here's a (5 minute) trailer for the only one worth a damn.

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Unless you hate singing and dancing.

 

[Chekov's Phaser]

Angie Tribecca dumped her load in one day. 12 episodes? I watched 4.

It does get better as it goes along. I thought Angie Tribeca was good. I love the old 'Airplane' style of comedy, and Angie Tribeca is more similar to Police Squad which is a good thing. The sense of humor is old school, and it doesn't always work, but when it does it is pretty funny.

 

[Mr Light]

Superstore and the Muppets are my jam. Life in Pieces and Grinder are amusing. Grandfathered, Telenovella, and Angel From Hell I can take or leave.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a lot of fun if you enjoy a "fucked up random musical romantic comedy" as the creator/star Rachel Bloom describes it. I've been a fan of Bloom's standup and comedy sketches for a while, but she's probably most well known before this critically acclaimed award winning show for the viral Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury music video she made five years ago. NSFW obviously:

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Here are some of the musical numbers from the show to give people an idea of how (delightfully) weird and elaborate it is. NSFW again in some cases:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKnWw7ou4ik

I can't recommend the show highly enough. It's not for everyone (if you can't stand musicals, romantic comedies, and crazy ass random shit happening, you will probably loathe this show), but it's one of the few shows on network TV today that is genuinely non-formulaic and unique (probably because it was originally pitched for Showtime).

 

[Guy Gardener]

The new board limits your Youtubes per post to 5.

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[1001001]

I like Superstore, Angie Tribeca, and Life in Pieces.

Angie Tribeca is just silly fun. Superstore has a good ensemble cast with lots of strange and funny things going on.

Dr. Ken and The Grinder are terrible, IMHO. Gave up very early on both.

 

[Kirby]

I've really only watched The Muppets, and I gave up on that after four episodes. I saw part of an episode of Life in Pieces, but wasn't impressed enough to continue past the 2nd commercial break.
At this point the only comedies I watch are The Goldbergs and Big Bang Theory. I'm starting to lose interest in BBT, but like Castle, I'll probably stay with it through the end.

 

[Velocity]

The only one of those in that list that I've seen is The Muppets. I just realized that I don't watch many comedies because they are mostly putrid. I can't stand most of what passes for comedy nowadays - it just isn't funny.. There is so little wit in American shows.

 

[Relayer1]

I've not seen any of them...

 

[hux]

Never heard of any of them so I'm gonna assume it's... The new American comedies are awful.

Have you tried Dag. Norwegian comedy is the future.

 

[Kor]

The only TV comedy I ever watch is M*A*S*H, on DVD with the intrusive laugh track turned off.

Kor

 

[Guy Gardener]

Never heard of any of them so I'm gonna assume it's... The new American comedies are awful.

Don't get super happy about how your Television is living 8 to 11 months in the past.

By the time these yankomedies start airing terrestrially in your neck of the woods, with fanfare, and so many bus-shelter billboards, 3 quarters of them will have been cancelled.

There's a word for making love to the dead.

 

[hux]

UK channels wait to see if it's a success in the states first then ship it over. We weed out the crap then write articles about how brilliant US sitcoms are, oblivious to the ten thousand awful shows we never got to see.

Though even when they're a success and get good reviews, I'm rarely impressed. Dave eventually snapped up Last man on earth (months later) but it bored the shit outta me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Yes, I used to do what TVNZ told me to do, and trust them to pre-chew my food for me too. They also thought that Lost should be on an 8 month delay. Steps were taken.

The comedy in Last Man on Earth is "hey look, I'm an asshole making bad decisions that you would never make because you're better than me" which is like a cheese grater to the face 70 percent of the time.

 

[hux]

I can't watch everything. If someone has to pre-chew my food (and they do) then I'd rather it was someone who commissioned peep show than me. I'd just end up sitting in a pool of my own jizz and piss, watching everything.

Children would throw stones at my windows and refer to me as the "scary gone wrong man."