This show coming to NBC looks pretty funny.
http://www.nbc.com/upcoming-shows/vi...rette/1094573/
It appears to have Chevy Chase being funny as well. Score. Don’t know when it starts. Assuming next season.
Nice cast and premise. I hope it doesn’t try to get too touchy. It can be good.
I love McHale. And John Oliver! Good for them, though the Soup and The Daily show will suffer for their absence.
I think McHale has said he’ll keep doing the Soup along with Community. I’m looking forward to this.
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Thank god for this. The Soup is a Saturday morning ritual for me and the wife. I don’t think they could replace McHale.
Right there with you. The Saturday morning Soup re-run goes great with hangovers, coffee, and cereal.
Yeah, it looks sort of funny. And Chevy looks funny in it, which is a nice change. Certainly seems like the kind of show that would be more suited for a limited run. Something about the tone of it.
McHale seems to be too smart of a character to be there. More of the worlds greatest salesmen. At some point the show doesn’t make sense.
This looks great. I’ll check out the pilot after work.
I just wish NBC wouldn’t run a promo for it on every commercial break of every show.
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He’s smart, but he’s lazy. Makes perfect sense that he’s there.
Watched the pilot. it was okay. Chevy Chase reminds me of Carrie Fischer for some reason.
The pilot is available for free on Amazon.com now (and has no commercials). There were some funny parts (pretty much any scene with both Joel McHale and John Oliver) but also some not great parts.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like John Oliver will be a regular on the show so those flashes of brilliance may be an isolated incident. I’ll certainly give it a few more episodes though.
“Now Jeff, before you say anything, you should think about the wonderful gift you’ve been given.”
“An excuse to punch a hippie?”
I liked it quite a bit, actually. Could be a smart, funny show. I think I’d rather see more of this than Parks and Recreation.
“I like you Jeff. You remind me of myself at your age.”
“I deserved that.”
My favorite exchange:
“I’m a professor, you can’t talk to me that way.”
“A 6 year old girl could talk to you that way.”
"Yes, because that would be adorable!.
“No, because you’re a 5 year old girl and there’s a pecking order.”
Watched this on Amazon’s service. Quite enjoyable. McHale is a loveable douchebag. Feels like a really good fit with Office and 30 Rock.
“We are the only species that observes Shark Week.”
“If it was a serious disease, they would’ve named it ‘meningitis.’”
McHale had a few good quips, but I found the situations to feel forced and strange, and in general a lot of it was brutally unfunny.
Gillian Jacobs certainly has my attention, and McHale was amusing enough. Not sold on the other characters yet.
Caught it tonight, thought it was kinda stiff, gave up halfway through. Maybe that’s just because it aired on the heels of the superb Office premiere.
Convince me to watch the rest?
No, either watch it or don’t. I’ve never got the ‘convince’ me plea. Either you’re going to take the 25 minutes to watch the whole show or you aren’t that bothered by it.
I thought it was funny enough though not the show the critics were once raving about, it definitely has potential though. In the pantheon of TV comedy pilots though it was far better than ‘The Office’ or ‘30 Rock’. It did it’s job in setting up everything well enough, but I’ll need to watch another few weeks to see how it grows.
For a comedy pilot, it was well done. Like James said, The Office and 30 Rock didn’t start out this strongly. Joel McHale and Chevy Chase will keep me coming back for few more weeks to see if the show hooks me. And I loved the scene at the end where the guy thought he was going deaf.
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This was my favorite part.
It was OK for a pilot. Chevy, McHale and the chick that looks like Elizabeth Shue are enough to get me to keep watching for a few more weeks.