TV observations..
Guzzo
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so usually at this time I am at school getting my learn on but I am stuck at home sick so I got nothing to do but type on the computer and watch TV.
There is a show on ABC right now called "Rodney" thats looking pretty damn upsetting. The premise revolves around some redneck comedian dude. In this episode they accidently take home an illegal immigrant from mexico and insult him the entire episode. I'm thinking that is pretty sickening, the canned laughter only adds to the insult.
Anybody know this show?
Why is this on the air?
I thought ABC was owned by Disney, not to mention ABC is also the home of the George Lopez show.
Anyways what y'all watching?
There is a show on ABC right now called "Rodney" thats looking pretty damn upsetting. The premise revolves around some redneck comedian dude. In this episode they accidently take home an illegal immigrant from mexico and insult him the entire episode. I'm thinking that is pretty sickening, the canned laughter only adds to the insult.
Anybody know this show?
Why is this on the air?
I thought ABC was owned by Disney, not to mention ABC is also the home of the George Lopez show.
Anyways what y'all watching?
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Well a depiction of a racists youth is one thing. A comedy where prejudice is a form of comedy is a different story all together. Not that I saw either, just going by what I read here.
I prefer my TV animated, It's not so hard to swallow that way, and BTW, TIVO is the shit...
I'm livin' on demand, batches!
Speaking of dumb ass quasi-racist TV ish, anybody else see "The War at Home"?
I was hoping that M. R. would come better than that stupid "all in the family" re-hash...
yeah I was disapointed with that show too, I like Michael Rappaport but I don't like this show, its in that unfunny area where its not quite racist enough to be shocking and not quite good enough to stand on its own without some edge
And this guy...
...can eat a turd. I heard one of his "routines" on satellite radio. Started out all folksy and funny, and ended up seriously homophobic and xenophobic.
100% agree. Its not even funny. Its plain ignorant.
What's sick about it is that the "redneck" comedy is huge not only in the usual places. I live in NJ and during one of my poker weekends at the Taj this cable guy was performing and it was the biggest crowd I've ever seen there. And it also seems like Comedy Central HAS to have a "Blue Collar" weekend every other weekend. Bill Hicks is crying somewhere.
This show still being on is an embarrassment. That lawyer show with Chris O Donnell and Hebrew Hammer (can't remember his name) got yanked after 2 episodes from Fox (not that it was "good" per se, just an example), and this Rapaport piece of shit is still on. My gf recently said that Fox heads were asked about it, and acknowledged it sucked ass, but did well in the "teenage boy market" from 9-15 y.o. so they're keeping it on.
Dude...I am a lifelong Jersey resident, and I am constantly amazed at how rednecky this fucking state is. I live in Ocean County which has almost as many hillbillys as any part of Alabammy or Missahoochy or wherever. Aside from the giant pickup trucks (which my neighborhood is infested with), there are at least three "mega-churches" within a few miles of my house.
Buh-lee-dat....I'm waiting for the jughead that lives behind me to go on a killing spree....
I'm proud that I'm an Atlantic County native because it looks like it sucks in Ocean County
Whoa. I've lived in Jersey City my whole life and I've usually been limited to Bergen, Essex, Morris, and Hudson county. I truly had no idea. I forget how big a state it is and apparently what a remarkable resemblance it has to the nation as a whole. I guess I should (or shouldn't) go out there more often.
Your part of the state is a whole different bag. I grew up in Monmouth County which is largely densely populated suburbs with a few small urban/semi-urban areas like Freehold, Red Bank and Asbury Park. Ocean County carries some of the same aspects but begins to thin out and get rural very quickly (with the added feature of a ton of retirement communities). The further south you get, the more woodsy it is (except for the shore areas which are resort-oriented).
Brick - where I live - is a mix of suburban/shore resort (it's adjacent to Point Pleasant Beach).