I watch a lot of television and to be honest with you, it all sucks. There is not one good TV show out there. It seems like it’s all reality programming and stuff for teenage girls. What I would like to start is a top list of the best shows no longer on TV. I have a few ideas and I’m going to get right into it with one of them today, but please feel free to add in any in the comments section. I have ten (or so, I’m not a big fan of even numbered lists), but please feel free to add a bunch. What I want to do is feature each one a day and then make a list and then a poll.
Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was maybe one of the absolute best discussion panel shows of all time. It aired on Comedy Central for a whole year! One entire year, I think that’s a record for that fucking network. I don’t find one thing funny about that channel. The hell with the Daily show, unless you’re a nerd who follows every minute of it, then it’s totally unwatchable. Anyway, the show was hosted by comic Colin Quinn and he would feature some of his comedy buddies each night. These comics include: Nick DePaulo, Patric O’Neal, Greg Geraldo, Rich Voss and Jim Norton. Every so often a big star would show up like: Jerry Seinfeld, Will Farrell or Denis Leary.
This was a no-holds barred, non-pandering, flaming example of free speech. Those very things that the show stood for are the same things that helped get it cancelled. If people are offended by a TV show, then don’t watch it. If you get offended by something you read, then don’t read it. I hate when people feel the need to police the rest of the world when they don’t like something. The wrong people get to decide what America wants to watch. I’m tired of those shitty sitcoms. This was genuine! This was good! This was…dare I say it…real!
So anyway, the show was set up in a very loose manner. The guys would constantly rank on each other, yell and talk over one another. It was the most fun I had ever had watching TV. This show was truly an influence on my life and I fucking hate that. If only we had the Discovery Health network, then I wouldn’t fucking be this way. I’d be a doctor or in law school. I would actually be doing something productive with my life.
They would talk about a multitude of topical headlines, big and small. The arguments would get heated and the jokes were mostly funny. I say that because sometimes one of these comics would bomb and then get shit on and made fun of. I would love to show you a clip, but I don’t know how to fucking work the YouTube add-on!
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Tough Crowd was the show I used to fall asleep to. That sounds bad, because I really liked it! I only fell asleep to it because when it was on air it was on so late, so it was like my pleasant ambient sound to fade away with. and that is the only time Colin Quinn's voice will be likened to pleasant ambience.
ReplyDeleteBut I agree that this show should still be going to this day, it was like The View for low-brow assholes. it is missed.
I used to stay up every single night. I felt like shit the next day. But if I missed it, I would feel even worse.
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