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Tom Ronca - 2005-03-03 11:18:59
Yeah, it is difficult to really love a sketch comedy show (although 'Monty Python' and 'Mr. Show' are definitely my favorites), which is why my favorite of all time is 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' -- the show's premise is broad enough that the writing has the free-wheeling zaniness of a sketch comedy show, but you still have the cast of lovable regulars (Joel and/or Mike, the 'Bots, the Mads, etc.). Speaking for myself, the show seems a weird combination of everything I love: Bad movies, robots, inspired but rarely mean-spirited sarcasm. It's like somebody read my mind and created a program based around my sub-conscious yearnings for a comedy show. I'm not ruling that out as a possibility either . . .
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Paula - 2005-03-03 11:23:45
It's like somebody read my mind and created a program based around my sub-conscious yearnings for a comedy show
That's almost word-for-word what I was going to say about Mr Show, but the paragraph was getting too long.
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Tom Ronca - 2005-03-03 12:53:47
Clearly we are linked on some special spiritual plane . . .
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Tom Ronca - 2005-03-03 12:55:35
At any rate, there are a bunch of MST3K episodes available on DVD, and most of them can be had through NetFlix -- Take a look at one if you want some yuks.
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Miles - 2005-03-04 01:14:56
My Mr. Show history is very odd -- when it was airing on HBO, we never could seem to see it more than intermittently, but the ones I saw knocked me on my ass with their hilarity (even when they included J*ck Bl*ck, whose appeal still eludes me entirely).
So when the DVDs started coming out, we eagerly gobbled up the first DVD set (s1 and s2), and... man, we must have ended up with the funniest episodes from those seasons out of random chance when they originally aired, because seeing the series in its entireity, those years were very hit-or-miss. In fact, while the highs were high, the whiffs were so frequent that it made us reluctant to pull the trigger on the s3 set...
...but when we did get s3... wow. Talk about a show hitting its stride. From there on out, it was just brutally, consistently funny at about the highest level possible.
For career value, I'd still take Python, KitH, and SCTV, but Mr. Show had a Koufax-like peak there. "America Blows Up the Moon!"
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