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November sweeps is upon us and you can kiss those nights of re-runs goodbye. We hope the past few weeks and their lack of new nightly programming meant you got out of the house for a change. But since the networks are back to pimping their products and the weather outside is frightful, you can come back inside and plant your ass on the couch where it really belongs. There. Isn't that better? Now, how about a few laughs?
Not to sound like a broken record, but have you been watching "Arrested Development"?! Ok, fine, you haven't been able to watch it for the past month because it hasn't been on. But as a reward for waiting, Fox will be airing two episodes tonight starting at 8 p.m. Included in this mini-marathon is the return of Charlize Theron as a "special" agent. (We'd also like to take this opportunity to wish Jason Bateman a speedy recovery from his recent throat surgery because, you know, that's gotta hurt and stuff. But mainly because we want the show to get back to production so we won't have to wait another month for new episodes. THAT hurts.)
Another show we've missed for the past month is "My Name Is Earl". Of course our missing it has nothing to do with NBC's not airing it. They've got a hit on their hands and wouldn't think of pulling it from the schedule for a month. Our missing it has more to do with our unwarranted faithfullness to a certain reality show that airs at the same time. We think NBC must be reading our diary, because they'll re-running a full month's worth of "Earl" this Saturday starting at 8 p.m. Is it luck? Or...karma?
Image of our boyfriend, Patton Oswalt, from "The Comedians of Comedy" site.
Back when we were just wee lads, we had a longstanding argument with friends: Who was funnier, Robin Williams or Steve Martin? We always sided with Martin (and we've got the fan club membership card, lifesize The Jerk promotional cardboard cut-out, and gag arrow-through-head prop to prove it). After all these years, we still maintain that Martin is the funnier stand-up, (and he's certainly made more movies we'd be able to sit through more than once than Williams has). On Wednesday at 9 p.m. PBS will air "The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2005 Mark Twain Prize Celebrating Steve Martin" in which many like-minded individuals will celebrate the actor, writer, and comedian's career.
Robin Williams and Steve Martin are certainly two of the bigger names in comedy, but we can also remember a time in the 80s when comedy was a booming business, especially in San Francisco. You couldn't spit without hitting some comedian or another, and comedy clubs were a dime a dozen. We remember seeing such comics as Bobby Slayton, Bobcat Goldthwait, and even Jay Leno (back when he was funny) perform around town. Nightclub comedy isn't quite the attraction it used to be, but that doesn't mean there aren't some incredibly funny guys doing stand-up out there. Two personal faves, Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis are featured on Comedy Central's new series "The Comedians of Comedy" which premieres Friday the 11th at 11:00 p.m. The series, (which, we believe, was also a documentary that hit several film festivals) follows Oswalt, Galifianakis, and fellow comedians Maria Bamford and Brian Posehn as they tour the U.S. Fans of the documentary Comedian, which followed Jerry Seinfeld as he made his return to the comedy club stage, will find similar stuff here. We're looking forward to the backstage bits even more than the stand-up.
Another couple of jokers we caught more than once in the City are Penn and Teller. We'll admit to loving the hell out of them at first (even going so far as to see their flop feature film Penn & Teller Get Killed --on opening night!), but for some reason, we eventually grew tired of their hipster magician shtick. Of course, they haven't gone anywhere--they have a show in Vegas, after all--so we're sure there are plenty of people who haven't gotten tired of them. NBC is hoping the same thing as they will run "Penn and Teller: Off the Deep End" Sunday the 11th at 7:00 p.m. During the two hour special we're sure Teller won't say anything, Penn will say a LOT, and they will make a submarine disappear. Now, the weird thing is THAT trick sounds like something David Copperfield might perform, while David Copperfield's promise to impregnate a woman by just looking at her, sounds like something more along the lines of Penn and Teller. Oh, how the breakaway-tables-holding-the-two-halves-of-a-sawed-apart-lady have turned!
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