Keepin' It Real With Human Giant's Critics

Reviews are trickling in for the debut episode of Human Giant (premieres tomorrow on MTV, 10:30p / 9:30c) and if there's one thing the boys have succeeded in doing, it's confounding the inarticulate.

First, Doug Elfman of the Chicago Sun-Times reviews HG alongside two other MTV shows, "Nick Cannon Presents Short Circuitz" and "Adventures in Hollywood":

"A few thoughts come to mind while I watch three new shows on MTV. First: Leave it to MTV to be one of the only networks to give this much prime time to talented black professionals . . .

There are many skilled performances in the new series — by rappers Three 6 Mafia and comedians Kat Williams and Aziz Ansari — but they mostly go to waste from weak writing or direction."

That's Aziz, pictured above doing talented black things such as apparently looking black when he is in fact of South Asian descent (methinks from a Tamil background judging from the bit he did about hitting on rapper M.I.A.).

For more cluelessness, check out what this critic from the University of Rhode Island's student newspaper came up with:

"Maybe it's because I don't have the same sense of humor, or maybe it simply is because the show is just not that funny . . .

"Honestly, the best of them all was 'The Worst Mixed Tape,' and only because Ansari had to walk around New York City blasting Gloria Estefan and Six Pence None the Richer from a boom box. Obviously, this is not the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life and nothing really out of the ordinary when it comes to comedy skits."

Because boom box-based comedy sketches are so late-90's Will Ferrell.   

Meanwhile, for the real skinny on Human Giant, may we suggest outlets such as The Sound of Young America's podcast.