Posted on 09/20/2014 8:47:19 PM PDT by JennysCool
Holy cow! After the football game, FOX showed a preview of their new sitcom "Mulaney" ... named for the stand-up comic who stars. Never have I seen this kind of preview that had not ONE laugh. Not ONE. And the set-up is a blatant "Seinfeld" rip-off. Completely fake interaction amongst the characters. WHAT a disaster. Very sorry Martin Short is peripherally involved here. HE's the real deal. This show looks bad on so many levels.
I read once where parts of the script for Dick Van Dyke Show had large sections that just Read “Morey Amsterdam tells jokes” and let him rip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZSe7V02oLI
Unbelievably lame.
Didn’t the powers that be hate Seinfeld before it aired? Maybe they see the Seinfeld connection in this new show and assume it’ll take off? If I recall no show ever tested lower than Seinfeld.
:-) I guess not.
I also liked “Ed” - some reason I thought HG was an earlier release.
Regardless, Julie is always “girl-next-door” hot...and not surprising, I married the girl-next-door” who had a striking resemblance to JB with some early Michelle Pfeiffer tossed in. Sadly, my wife lost a battle with breast cancer at 28.
As an aside, the lead in “Ed” also played the brother of the lead in another quirky comedy and one of my all time favs - “Scrubs”
A new show that is not entertaining? Not exactly like finding a four leaf clover — it’s more of a monkeys and typewriters context than most seem to realize, including people in the biz. Pinging this as one of those non-political topics.
“John Mulaney is an American actor and comedian best known for his work as a writer on Saturday Night Live and as a standup comedian.” [wikipedia]
I’m glad there’s Thursday Night Football (moving MNF to ESPN was the most stupid idea in the history of televised sports, in case anyone wanted my opinion on that), but the Bucs did everything except split their pants.
I think the fact is, Carolina is a powerhouse. One of the talking heads (BTW, they have the WORST in NFL sportscasting on that network, worse even than CBS’ crappy clone of the Fox team) noted that Carolina had started out last season at 0 and 2 and won the division.
I think Lovey Smith is great, but it may be asking a lot, and he even said as much.
Good casting, recording in front of a live studio audience (something that was revived by the Bob Newhart Show after the laugh track era), and not trying to be too much to too many (IOW, not plastering homosexual adulterers who work in the abortion industry and are in biracial relationships all over it) helps a lot. Most of the time shows get dumped too early, or get moved around too much and can’t develop an audience. My personal favorite is when a show has some success, but the network claims to the creators of the show that they love it, but we’re gonna change everything.
In the 1990s shows that couldn’t quite break big, but had steady audiences would get the usual treatment, meaning, two characters which hadn’t been fully developed yet suddenly out of the blue have a mad tryst on an office desk or whatever. Or, they’d add Alison LaPlaca to the cast. Or, they’d add Alison LaPLaca on top of an office desk with another character.
The thing that turned me off when Seinfeld started was that awful, kill-me-now fake standup from Jerry. He’s easily the worst successful standup comedian since Emo Phillips. When I’d happen to tune in after the first ad break, I’d enjoy the show, and by the time “The Contest” aired and their numbers went into orbit, I was already hooked.
Emulating Seinfeld in this fashion won’t sell the show to me at least; in addition, he’s about as funny as 90 percent of the comics were on “Star Search” years ago.
BTW, I want to push Martin Short down an elevator shaft, on a good day.
And I’d push Lorne Michaels down an elevator shaft on ANY day. And I’d win a Best Comedy Emmy for it.
Official Trailer | MULANEY | FOX BROADCASTING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZSe7V02oLI
free episode:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/682064
“Mulaney” Is Not The Next “Seinfeld”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/mulaney-is-not-the-next-seinfeld
What a kinky bloke. =8-0
Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-alone is near-unwatchable. I recall back when he first had a role on “Benson” how forgettable he was (vs. Robert Guillaume, who is NOT a comedian, but was one of the funniest people I’ve ever seen on a sitcom with impeccable comic timing as a “straight” man).
Without the supporting cast of “Seinfeld”, the show would’ve failed in short order as Jerry alone couldn’t support it. It’s curious that Larry David, conversely, could and can carry a show by himself (and that if only because he’s such an arrogant jerk, you’re rooting for him to get in hot water over something).
Robert Guillaume: Remember “Benson”? Good TV, good times, good memories...
I still, proudly, have never watched an episode of “Seinfeld”. I just don’t see “it”. Plus it’s a bit too “NY” for my taste.
I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld. Just flat out never interested me.
Robert Guillaume is awesome. Probably one of the best at delivering dead-pan snark.
One of my favorite scenes, of course it was in the 90s. Niles and Frazier are talking to each other on their cells and they back into each other in Frazier’s apt.
Great send up of the new technology.
Frazier is one of the best written comedies ever.
My favorites are the episodes where the brothers would host a dinner party and some disaster would ensue.
Even better episode — the one where the brothers decide to take over a restaurant. Their father warns them about the difficulties of owning and operating a restaurant, but the sons blow him off. So of course, opening night is an epic fail.
If you've never seen the episode, the title is “The Innkeepers.” You may be able to find it online. It's worth watching.
Is that the one where Daphne has to kill an eel in the kitchen by giving it a hard whack while the brothers look on in horror ?
I’ve seen everyone twice. One of the basic cable networks is running it now
Loved Benson. My favorite was;
( Gretchen Kraus is calling all around to every video store desperately searching for a new movie and having no luck. Benson walks in )
Benson: “What’s wrong?”
Kraus: “I’m looking for an Officer und a Gentleman.”
Benson: “The way you look, you’d be lucky to get a sailor and a six pack.”
Thanks for your thoughts and insight on the Frazier show.
I really enjoyed it. It’s one of those shows you hate to see go, but there’s only so long a show like that can run.
Still, in a way it feels almost like losing friends.
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