Another vote for when it’s funny it’s hilarious and when it doesn’t work you want to poke your eyes out.
Conan O’Brian
Although I don’t watch it very frequently, I’m with the crowd that says it’s hit or miss, but when it hits it’s great.
However, I think it rarely is as good as the Glick segments Short used to do on his talk show. (Which was often itself a very surreal experience.)
–Cliffy
I don’t think it was Conan, but I’ve never seen Conan on it. I do remeber Jay Mohr walking off though.
Conan did walk out. To see the guests check out TV Tome. Conan walked since Jiminy kept answering his cell phone to talk to his kids and wife. I’m sure it was all scripted.
Back when it was just a segment on his talkshow, I used to wish that they would make it its on show. As soon as I heard about the new show, though, I knew they ruined the whole idea. The name change alone reflected this. On the Martin Short show, the Glick segment was called “La-La-Wood”, a corny entertainment news show with a slightly dull host who was completely in love with all things Hollywood. Once it became “Prime Time Glick”, it was a talk show with a self-centered host who recognizes himself as the star of the show, rather than the guests. His relentless and seemingly genunine fawning on “La-La-Wood” was what made it so funny; on “Glick”, he actually makes jokes at the expense of his guests instead of treating them like gods. Now that Glick is dead, I’m into the “We Love Showbiz” segment on Daily Show and Onion’s Jackie Harvey.
I was in hysterics at his interview with Adam Baldwin on Saturday morning- Glick discussing how the Blacklist has been given a bad name & Sen Joe McCarthy was his hero & Baldwin talking about having a three-way with Senators Feinstein & Boxer
Martin short has never, and will never, be funny.
Except in Jungle2Jungle, somehow. That was a decent flick.
It was funnier when he did it on his short-lived talk show.
Whatdayamean? Has the show been cancelled? Or am I just missing something here?
He almost approached something like humor in *Get Over It too. Weird.
Is it true he actually interviewed Gore Vidal? Vidal must really be a fallen media whore if he consented to that.
I loved what Glick told Nathan Lane, though, because it’s what most talk-show-hosts are thinking when they’re interviewing anybody who’s not A list: “Nathan, you have such an incredible and wonderful career, and even though it’s one I’m not the least bit familiar with or interested in you deserve all the kudos you’ve gotten.”