# I'm with Busey, tomorrow night at 10 eastern. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342 "2003-06-17T00:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fishcrawford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85f322/32.png) [@fishcrawford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishcrawford)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/1 "2003-06-17T00:33:30Z")
I cannot wait to see what this is going to be like. Anybody else looking forward to this? ---
**Author:** ![Deadmime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@Deadmime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadmime)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/2 "2003-06-17T01:21:07Z")
I was at first looking forward for it, I like Busey…But the show just looks like another “Reality Show” where they just make Busey look stupid throughout it and have that kid play the straightman that gives confused looks everytime Busey does something strange. At least thats how ALL the commercials make it look. I don’t even know why they call some of these reality shows “reality” when its obvious thats it rigged for the camera, like the Osbournes and Anna Nicole. Oh well it might be a little funny anyway ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/3 "2003-06-17T01:22:41Z")
I’m not sure that “looking forward to” is quite the phrase I’d use, but I’ll probably check it out. Looks like a train wreck in the making. ---
**Author:** ![fishcrawford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85f322/32.png) [@fishcrawford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishcrawford)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/4 "2003-06-17T01:39:47Z")
Please tell me ‘I’m With Busey’ isn’t meant to be a fuckin reality show. I thought it was a comedy show, with Busey doing crazy shit to draw a laugh, not some reality show…jeezes. ---
**Author:** ![BellaVoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@BellaVoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaVoce)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/5 "2003-06-17T02:17:38Z")
The show looks funny, but I’m terribly confused. Who the crap is Gary Busey? Could the comercials be any more ambiguous? ---
**Author:** ![Petter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Petter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petter)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/6 "2003-06-17T20:48:04Z")
[Gary Busey](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Busey,+Gary) is one of the finest actors of our generation. Ok, he only plays crazy-ass bad guys, but in that limited field he’s the best. You might remember him as the crazy-ass bad guy in Steven Segal’s _Under Siege_ or as the crazy-ass bad guy in _Predator 2_. Why can’t you people export shows like this instead of _Everyone Loves Raymond_? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/7 "2003-06-17T23:29:35Z")
I got $10 that says it sucks worse than Quinn’s show. * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/8 "2003-06-18T00:07:36Z")
Well I suppose it’s all how you define reality. I imagine it’s more along the lines of [Contest Searchlight](http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/contestsearchlight/) or [Wanderlust](http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/wanderlust/) then Anna Nicole’s and Ozzie’s shows. A faux reality reality. I mean it’s not as if [Adam de la Peña](http://us.imdb.com/Name?De+La+Pe%F1a,+Adam) is a complete unknown. He’s worked at Comedy Central for at least 4 years. Not on any of the shows I really enjoyed unfortunately. It just looks like he’s idolized Busey and saw a chance to get himself involved in a project with him. Certainly there’s no winning in this thing. It’s just mentorship gone wrong. I’ll say it’ll be better then Quinn, sorry I don’t bet though. Maybe even better then **TV Funhouse** ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/9 "2003-06-18T22:49:38Z")
Better than **TV Funhouse**? Heretic! “This doesn’t taste like Poop, this tastes like SHIT!” * * * I could agree with you, if you weren’t wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/10 "2003-06-18T23:28:05Z")
I conceed it was not nearly as good as **TV Funhouse**. It was however better the **Strip Mall**. But then not as good as **That’s My Bush**. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/11 "2003-06-18T23:46:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Petter \* > \*\*[Gary Busey](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Busey,+Gary) is one of the finest actors of our generation. > > Ok, he only plays crazy-ass bad guys, but in that limited field he’s the best. > > You might remember him as the crazy-ass bad guy in Steven Segal’s _Under Siege_ or as the crazy-ass bad guy in _Predator 2_. \*\* How can you forget that he WAS Buddy Holly in “The Buddy Holly Story”. He was a better Buddy Holly IMHO as a singer. I heard Busey first, that’s all. I also saw Sgt. Pepper before I heard the original… The originals sounded wrong! Pity me. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/12 "2003-06-19T17:09:35Z")
Parts of this were actually really funny (most of Adam’s comments). Parts of it were completely random and stupid (the drag stuff). I’ll watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-tomorrow-night-at-10-eastern/182342/13 "2003-06-19T23:46:18Z")
**SmackFu** , I came away with exactly the opposite impression; loved Busey, hated the kid. My (slightly edited) comments on the show from the short-lived [Thoughts on “I’m with Busey”?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=191585) thread, since I don’t feel like retyping: > [@](#): > > Busey was hilarious, but the other guy annoyed the heck out of me. He was trying way too hard to be funny, when the right role for him would have been straight man to Busey’s wildness. The bits when he would stand back and let Busey go were pretty funny. > > Oh, and his snarky little references (“He doth protest too much,” the “ca-CAW” from Bottle Rocket) have got to stop. > > But I’ll probably give it another chance or two to see if I warm up to it. Busey himself is sort of hypnotic: “I like to eat in the dark.” My two cents.