I fixed it for you. 
I agree with you there. Dumb, but funny.
Actually, your quote should be “A large segment of people are also voting for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, too. Doesn’t make it right.”
Regarding the show, I’m wondering how long they can keep coming up with rapid-fire gags. Filling a ninety minute movie is one thing, but filling several seasons of TV shows is another. I do like this style of comedy, and loved the Airplane and Naked Gun movies and Police Squad TV series.
Nah. It could be subgenre of slapstick, but most slapstick is not surreal like that. Also, the Police Squad style depends as much on verbal comedy as on pratfalls and sight gags. It’s an entirely different proposition, altogether.
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An entirely different proposition, altogether.
I just want to wish the show good luck. We’re all counting on it.
Could be – Wiki describes Airplane as a “parody film.” But a lot of parodies are, again, not surreal like that. Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator is a parody of the Hitler regime but its style of humor is very different from what we’re talking about here. And, Wiki calls Naked Gun a “slapstick comedy.” And Top Secret is both a “parody” and an “action comedy.”
There ought to be some more specific name for this sort of thing. It would make it easier to find it and kill it.
Spoof maybe?
I wish I had a way to marathon-stream it with any of my current streaming services…
Well, it is parody, but there was an extra hook to it. Many of the actors the Zuckers and Abrahams used in their movies the audience were familiar with from other films or television shows as the authoritative no-nonsense types - guys like Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Alan North, and George Kennedy - who played their roles straight, but delivered ridiculous lines with deadpan seriousness.
That’s what you’re looking for, isn’t it BrainGlutton? I have no idea what that’s called.
Okay, we got confused in the slapstick (it’s not) vs parody (it is) debate, but let’s get down to business. Is Rashida Jones the most beautiful woman on Earth, or am I hypnotized by her multiple layers of dimples?
Hoffman is the funniest.
No. The most I’ll grant you is “pleasant looking.”
I sat through my first episode thinking, “It’s trying to be Police Squad!, but it’s not funny.” But for some reason, I didn’t clear the episodes off my DVR.
Several weeks later, I gave it another shot. I loved it. Now my whole family is watching 2-3 episodes per night until we catch up.
Guess I was just in a bad mood that first night.
That’s what Objective Me thinks, but then she smiles and my legs go weak.
My favorite thing about Hoffman is that he isn’t even a good dog actor. Like he’s just the Carrells’ pet. Adds to the psychogroovic atmosphere.
Meh. I watched two episodes then deleted it from our Tivo queue. Not worth my time. YMMV.
I think you’d have to call it “Airplane”-style comedy, since that’s what started it all. There really was nothing like it before: the mix of gags on top of gags, film parody, utter surrealism (a watermelon drops onto a table for no apparent reason), and deadpan humor from classic 1960s leading men was without precedent.
You could also call it ZAZ comedy, for Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, the guys who wrote, produced, and directed Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun, and Police Squad. Kind of lIke Monty Python (and many other comedy teams, no doubt) who weren’t as good when one or more of the original team weren’t present, the later efforts by ZAZ members on their own didn’t have quite the magic of their first efforts. E.g., Jim Abrahams’ Hot Shots films without the Zucker brothers.
(FYI, the Zuckers’ mom, Charlotte, had cameos in most of the films, e.g. as the woman who messes up her lipstick in turbulence, Ricardo Montalban’s secretary, etc.)
And I love Angie Tribeca. It’s almost as good as *Police Squad *, but not quite. But it’s still great fun.
Absolutely Airplane was their feature-length breakthrough, but you can see their brand of humor in sketch form (but still a movie) in Kentucky Fried Movie from 3 years prior (ZAZ wrote, Landis directed, although from their commentary track I get the impression ZAZ were heavily involved in all stages of production).
TBS, 10:30 pm. Be there.
Finally, a show about cops.
I love whichever writer names the characters on this show.
Dr. Scholls
Diane Duran
Jay Geils
Sgt. Eddie Pepper
I’ll admit to not being a big fan of this show, but I do like The Detour, another sitcom on TBS. It’s created by Jason Jones (who also stars) and Samantha Bee.