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Monday, March 28, 2005
Smash your TV and have adventure!
Blogging might be slow this week for a plethora of reasons but I do promise to have a rundown of Grant Morrison's appearance at Meltdown this week so stay tuned for that.
I want to talk about something that has nothing to do with comics right now, after all there's not a whole lot happening there. I want to tell you folks about a snazzy new TV show. See, I'm a fan of comedy but I'm the kind that goes for stuff that's dark and surreal and it's hard to find that stuff, even in "alternative comedy." But I have founded a program that has fed my hunger. Wonder Showzen on MTV2 has got to be one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, just because they are committed to making their audience uncomfortable and disturbed (also, I haven't been able to snoop around that site because I'm at a public computer and I fear that the contents there might not be work safe. Just warning you).
Imagine if Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse was able to get away with the "Porn for Kids" sketch and much, much more. This Sesame Street parody features kids (and it's all real kids) dancing to an ode to slavery, trying to prevent God from killing himself and saying things like "I wish I had my innocence back." Bits from the show often start out as your usual "aren't-we-shocking" fare you would find on Comedy Central (one of the shows creators, Vernon Chatman, worked on South Park) but then they take things much farther so they either creep you out or have you laughing like a sick-o. I've noticed that Showzen is more interested in being surreal and taking on human fears than they are in having dirty fun with whatever is in the papers that day. The title of this posts comes from a song in last week's episode that starts off normal but then begins to shame the viewers at home for sitting on the couch watching TV instead of doing something with their lives. Not uncommon territory for Chatman and the shows other creator, John Lee.
So if you have nothing going happening on Fridays at 9:30 turn on MTV2 and check this show out. I think they rerun it on MTV proper but I don't when (they had it on Sunday so you might want to try that). Hell, here's their pilot from back when they called it Kids Show. That "trip to the hot dog factory" bit was just fucked-up enough to be really funny.
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