It will be gone in a few weeks, total drivel.
Now, I’m only a tepid fan of Chelsea Handler, and don’t know that much about her, beyond what she’s said about herself- and ANYTHING a comedian says about his/her life should be taken witha grain of salt).
And I don’t expect a sitcom based on a humorist’s life to be 100% true.
Still, it puzzles me a bit that Chelsea Handler gave herself a goofy fundamentalist Christian sister (played by Chelsea herself), when Chelsea herself comes from a liberal, secular Jewish family. She grew up in suburban New Jersey, which is not exactly the Bible Belt.
Again, I KNOW that countless comedians have either made up phony spouses or relatives for their act or create comically exaggerated versions of their real spouses and families. Rodney Dangerfield didn’t really have a wife who cheated on him 10 times a day, and Phyllis Diller wasn’t really married to a guy named Fang.
But why would Chelsea make up a stereotypically Christian family for herself? Just to mock Christians? What, she couldn’t think of anything to say about her REAL heritage?
Laura Prepon’s hotness notwithstanding, I’d rather have my testicles filleted with a greasy spork than watch anything featuring the aggressively unfunny Chelsea Handler.
:rolleyes:
Do you also get annoyed at the audience when you go see a play?
:rolleyes:
I would if they brought along a tape recording of other people laughing…
Huh? A live audience and an artificial one are two vastly different things. They didn’t even try to make the laugh track sound real.
I watched a bit of the show with a friend. (I didn’t find it terribly funny. In fact, I found it worse than Whitney. And, I don’t care for Whitney.) My friend told me that Handler is playing her own sister, who in real life converted to Mormonism. So, still Christian, just a more specific flavor. Concentrate on being offended by an unfunny show, instead of being offended on religious grounds. The unfunny part is offensive enough that you don’t need to look for other reasons.
I think we had the discussion about laugh tracks, or “live audiences” at the start of this tv season with Two Broke Girls and Whitney. Whitney’s laugh track REALLY stood out when it came on after all of those shows that didn’t feature audiences. Some people the aspect of laughing with someone when a funny thing happens in a show. I don’t really care for it. But, I feel like when a show is bad the laugh track makes the show much worse, because the unfunny things are being laughed at uproariously.
Not many shows are great with their pilot episode; the focus is more on exposition than on being entertaining. We won’t know until March if this show is any good or not.
I agree with you, but I thought that even for a pilot the exposition was forced and ham-handed. It very much seemed like “HI GUYS, THIS IS MY SISTER, SHE’S CRAZY CHRISTIAN. THIS IS MY FRIEND, SHE’S CRAZY BAD-ASS. THIS IS MY ROOMMATE, SHE’S CRAZY.”
I think you missed his point.
I don’t believe either Chelsea Handler or Whitney Cumming’s stated ages.
The show was very bad. Laura Prepon does an incredible imitation of Handler’s awful pacing and timing when she tells jokes.