After reviving Intern Molly from cardiac arrest when we told her The Showbiz Show had been renewed for another 13 episodes, we did what any evil media boss would do: made her watch it again.
Much to our surprise, this week’s episode caused her to laugh a little.
Fresh off a season two renewal, The Showbiz Show seemed rejuvenated. It still hasn’t figured out how to make a cohesive show, or even one where they don’t make multiple jokes about the same celebrity gossip, but there were genuinely funny moments in this one.
In any event, I’m determined to find things I like about this show, because it looks like we’re going to be together. For a while.
After the jump, the obvious Britney/Kevin jokes are spruced up by foreign television segments while Showbiz Show correspondents receive the lashing they deserve.
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Intern Molly is fucked. After weeks of painstakingly reviewing David Spade’s attempt at growing facial hair that is The Showbiz Show comes news that, despite her attempts to have it axed from Comedy Central’s line up, it’s being renewed. For 13 weeks.
Millions agree. Hollywood had it coming and David Spade is just getting started. COMEDY CENTRAL has ordered a second season of the weekly satire, ????The Showbiz Show with David Spade,???? it was announced today by Lauren Corrao, executive vice president of original programming and development. The second season of ????The Showbiz Show with David Spade???? will premiere on March 23, 2006 and consist of 13 episodes.
The full release, and Intern Molly’s motivation to find a new gig, after the jump.
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Poor Intern Molly. Every week we force her to watch David Spade’s excuse for staying on television, The Showbiz Show — and every week the ratio of compliments to slams make the ratio of Greek shipping heirs that haven’t slept with Paris Hilton look dismal.
This week wasn’t any different.
I almost can’t even bring myself to write a recap of this week’s Showbiz Show. Watching it nosedive into atrocity, after a few promising weeks, wasn’t easy.
The episode spent the extended first bit making the requisite Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson jokes: Jess’ creepy relationship with her dad, Ashley sounding like a goat, Jessica being an idiot, Nick being gay, Johnny Knoxville cheating. It was thrilling.
Lots more carnage (and stale Britney humor), after the jump.
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Another Thursday, another evening we chain Intern Molly to the TV set for a round of Showbiz Show, where David Spade’s breath isn’t as stale as the jokes.
This week, The Showbiz Show started out appropriately, with a joke that had the following punchline: “Come in here and eat your momma’s poon before it gets cold.” Thanks Spade, I need a constant reminder of your line-straddling mediocrity and inappropriateness.
Though this episode was part of the recent upswing, The Showbiz Show has yet to find its groove. There is no reason for this show to be a full half-hour rather than a segment on a longer show, a la “Weekend Update” on SNL.
After the jump, Intern Molly doesn’t get any nicer.
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The Showbiz Show continues sputtering along with David Spade’s attempts at funny and growing facial hair, but Intern Molly actually found some worthwhile bits. It’s just a shame those worthwhile bits included recreating Steve Harvey’s hairline.
After last week’s Showbiz Show, I was ripped a proverbial “new one” for my naivet????. I entered this week’s show with my truth goggles on, ready to face the Showbiz for what it’s worth. Unfortunately, nothing happened during this episode. WTF, Showbiz Show?
The news segment was, as usual, stale. It’s almost as if David Spade realizes that this part of the show is missing something. He congratulates himself when the crowd laughs. Seriously.
Daytime television sarcasm, Tara Reid and Brooke Shield’s hoping she doesn’t kill herself all make appearances after the jump. Seriously.
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As we are wont to do, once again we forced Intern Molly to sit through David Spade’s The Showbiz Show, otherwise known as last month’s Us Weekly. It’s getting so bad that we’re thinking about suggesting to Intern Molly that she should apply at an internship in David Spade’s little lair.
I watched last night????????s Showbiz Show twice. Once while in a state where I should have found it funnier than it actually is. Once right after waking up. Neither time did I laugh.
Oh, Showbiz Show, why can????????t you be funny? I want to like you, but your jokes have been done before and your news is old. I????????ve said it once, I????????ll say it again: this show should be on every night if it wants to be successful and up to date.
Lucky for you, the review is more entertaining than this week’s show. Read all about it, after the jump.
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Ever since we coerced Intern Molly into offering up her Showbiz Show roundups, we know you’ve been loving every word dripping with David Spade’s dirty facial hair.
And so last week, while Intern Molly took a vacation and didn’t think we’d notice, we’re certain your Friday workday didn’t live up to the entertainment value of Men’s Vogue without your Showbiz Show roundup.
Thankfully, Molly decided to file yesterday’s recap — while still on holiday. So please thank her, because we’re really short on gratitude ’round here.
After a much needed week three hiatus, I returned to The Showbiz Show refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to be blown away by David Spade????????s superior comedic stylings. After about five minutes, I remembered what show I was watching.
Ahh, The Showbiz Show: It????????s like that friend you????????re afraid to introduce to new people because he has a tendency to do completely inappropriate things, like deem October ???????Hug a Black Guy Month??????? (thanks, Rob Lowe!), or say something like ???????What????????s hot? Chihuahuas. What????????s not? Guatemalans.??????? The Showbiz Show is just a bit of a liability to bring out in mixed company.
There’s plenty more staid Hollywood jokes, after the jump.
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Intern Molly is back with this week’s The Showbiz Show recap (see last’s week’s “The Showbiz Show: There’s got to be a drinking game in here somewhere“). And just like a celeb weekly like In Touch or People, David’s Spade’s weekly Hollywood gabfest is a bit dated. But Molly tells it better than we do.
Okay, The Showbiz Show with David Spade makes no sense. A once a week entertainment news/gossip (and is there a difference, really?) show is, in essence, dated. Unless it is a show that is written and taped on Thursday about Thursday????????s celebrity gossip, the entire News portion of the show is sort of a joke.
The average person has access to myriad celebrity resources to fit all procrastination and fascination needs. The show is left to rest on the laurels of sub-par correspondents. And that seems to not always be the best idea.
Alright, clearly Intern Molly forgot to plug Jossip when she mentioned “access to myriad celebrity resources,” but we’ll forgive her .. but only because she’s got a lot more words to print — after the jump.
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We might as well hand over our entire Television category to Intern Molly, since she’s just about the only person who can actually stomach this fall’s offerings without pressing her morphine drip button (comes with the job) more than twice per minute.
But we refilled her drip just in time for last night’s premiere of David Spade’s The Showbiz Show, Comedy Central’s attempt to port the success of The Daily Show to the entertainment industry.
In the end, Intern Molly finds some entertaining bits, but that’s probably because, well, it is the entertainment industry.
Interestingly enough, the funniest thing about The Showbiz Show is David Spade himself, whose movie career in the past few years has been a little more Joe Dirt than Tommy Boy. Dry humor is what he does best, and somehow he has managed to work his slightly creepy nature to his advantage. The fact that if he wasn????????t a famous or rich comedian he would almost certainly be molesting 12-year-old girls adds a pleasantly lecherous aspect to his bits.
Her full review after the jump.
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