Insomniac with Dave Attell is, unless someone can give me another idea, the final show from Comedy Central to make it on this list. I don’t know what it is about that channel that rubs me the wrong way. I think that I should grab a list of all the failed Comedy Central shows that sucked, and trash them on the blog. It just seems like the programs are mass produced for overall appeal and don’t really strike cords with individual audiences. That’s what makes classic TV, having the flavor of the month host a web video show doesn’t (take that, Daniel “the open miker with a paycheck” Tosh).

So anyway, this show Insomniac was hosted by one of the great comics of our time, Dave Attell. He was perfect for this show. See, the premise of Insomniac was that he would go to different places around America and check out the nightlife. But he wasn’t going to these obvious places like bars and strip clubs, no he took this to completely different levels. He would go to some of the worst (by worst I mean best) places open at two in the mourning. He would run into every single freak and weirdo imaginable. Think about walking around Allston during the day and give everyone a weird sexual fetish. Those are the kinds of people he would run into. He would also go visit job that can only take place at night. I remember in one classic episode, he traveled for a night with a guy who cleans up hotel rooms after someone died in them. It sounds weird, but it was the most interesting half hour of TV, ever. People like to learn about stuff that there not supposed to know about. People are also fascinated with subculture. That is what mad this show fantastic, also the fact that I was in the eighth grade when it aired. Man, did I feel like I was getting away with murder.

I think one of the main reasons why this show failed was because of the time it aired. Once a week at two a.m. No, this wasn’t some clever marketing ploy to have a show called insomniac air when only actual insomniacs can watch it. Because if the themes in the show, it had be on that late. The censors never let it go to a prime time slot. That’s were it died, right before the sex infomercials aired. It will be missed by me, but let me know if you miss it so it can make the final list.