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Date Posted: 14:02:58 02/12/05 Sat
Author: Jim Bevan
Subject: Getting started on the reviews
In reply to: Patrick Lonergan 's message, "REVIEWS: Jason Bateman 02/12/05" on 11:16:40 02/12/05 Sat

You're certainly right, Pat. You got a helluva lot in this week. Now I don't feel bad about not sending one in; that just gave you less to go over. Well, time to get started on my reviews:

The Daily Show: A bit of a sad CO. The characters acted nothing like themselves; Jon Stewart and Tony Blair were like children squabbling on the playground, and Stephen Colbert with a tazer? That didn't do it for me. A couple of funny lines, and the Twilight Zone/tackle ending was a nice touch, but poor parodying greatly hurt this sketch. Sorry, Chelsea.

Monologue: When a monologue features another celebrity walking on, it can either be great, crash, or wander in the middle of the road. This, I have to say, was a middle-roader. It had a relatively straighforward buildup with practically no laughs, but the end bit about Justine and Jason's wife was killer.

America's Stupidest Customers: Utterly brilliant. I work as a retail clerk at Rite-Aid over the summer, and I've dealt with idiots like these, so it was very refreshing to see a sketch dealing with this horrible scourge to our nation. Killer lines, and the "how much is this" at a dollar store cliche joke got a very neat twist to it.

The New Message: An interesting premise, but a little hard to follow at some points. Quite a few of the lines just didn't flow that well, they seemed too forced and unnatural. That, and the reference to the monologue threw it off course.

Homework Hassles: Best of the night, that's all I have to say.

Sylvester asks the Questions: Meh, this didn't do it for me. The premise got stale and old, a guy who keeps asking annoying questions and driving people nuts - seen it done to death. And the situation wasn't really that funny either.

Jason Bateman Backstage - Pt. 1: I have never watched Arrested Development, and I'm not much of a fan of Jeffrey Tambor, so I couldn't relate to this bit. But again, it deviated into near-childish insults, which diminished my interest in it greatly.

Be back later for a review of WU and the rest of the show.

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