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The pilot for David's Situation, the new sitcom from Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, taped last Friday, and The Onion AV Club's Josh Modell was in attendance. He's got a full write-up with some minor spoilers, but the gist of it is the show is funny and original and HBO really ought to give it a chance. Here's some of the review that you shouldn't read if you want to be completely surprised if and when the show airs:
Not to get sappy, but there was pretty palpable positive energy coming
both from Odenkirk and the audience. After a few minutes of warm-up by
comedian Mark Cohen (and a sound system playing what must’ve been
Cross’ iPod), Odenkirk introduced Cross, who came out and began to
deliver a monologue out in front of the set. (The set, they claimed,
was from Everybody Loves Raymond.) At first it seemed like Cross was
just warming up the crowd, but it turned out his stand-up bit was
actually the show’s beginning, and he used it to explain the premise.
(He’d go on to break the fourth wall several times in the show, too.)
I'm white and I'm 30, so that means my two favorite bands are Built to Spill and The Shins and my favorite sketch-comedy show is Mr. Show. That's just how it is; look it up. So you can imagine how excited I was when I read this about the just-released album Tim & Eric: Awesome Record, Great Songs, Volume One:
Packed in together with such timeless Tim and Eric fare as "Wipe My Butt", "I Sit Down to Pee", and "Doo Dah Doo Doo" are guest turns from funny people David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, and Maria Bamford, an appearance by Aimee Mann, a Flying Lotus remix, and a pair of unlikely indie rock covers: the Shins' version of "Wipe My Butt", which turned up in a "Tim and Eric" episode earlier this year, and a Built to Spill take on kooky karaoke come-on track "Come Over".
The only way this album could be more aimed directly toward me is if it came with naked pictures of my eighth-grade Spanish teacher. Oh well, maybe in Volume Two.
Andy Kindler is about to go on tour with Eugene Mirman and Marc Maron, so The Bob and Davider posted tour-dates and a short Q&A Bob did with Andy. Here's one of the five Q's and A's:
2. Do you notice a growth in your audience from your steady Letterman gigs? (an emotional growth) More people show up wearing ascots and sunglasses, if that helps, and I assume it doesn't. Does that mean my audience is affected? Or are they addicted.....to my comedy! I notice my audience is getting taller. Or maybe I'm slumping more.
For the tour dates and to read about Andy Kindler's career as a singer/songwriter, head over to BobandDavid.com.
Chris Rock blames Farley's undoing on his deep-seated need for approval.
"'Chippendales' was a weird sketch. I always hated it," says Rock, "The
joke of it is, basically, 'We can't hire you because you're fat.'
There's no comic twist to it. It's just [bleep]ing mean. A more
mentally together Chris Farley wouldn't have done it, but Chris wanted
so much to be liked. As funny as that sketch was ... it's
The pilot for David's Situation, the new sitcom from Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, taped last Friday, and The Onion AV Club's Josh Modell was in attendance. He's got a full write-up with some minor spoilers, but the gist of it is the show is funny and original and HBO really ought to give it a chance. Here's some of the review that you shouldn't read if you want to be completely surprised if and when the show airs:
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