(WT#2) Entertainment Thread (Day 2) - Mr. Show

i really hope everybody in the house has seen this show Mr. Show. if you haven't seen it or heard of it, then man am i glad i was able to tell you about it, so that you can go order the first 2 seasons on dvd today!

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to make a long story short, bob odenkirk and david cross are simply two of the funniest human beings to ever grace the planet earth. i really can't describe their show if you haven't seen it, at least not well enough to do it justice. it is a sketch comedy show that ran for 4 seasons on HBO, but it is so much more, those guys could just sit there and do nothing and i swear you would still find yourself dying of laughter.

to get a taste of their humor check out bobanddavid.com

to check out some transcripts of the shows go here

to order the first two seasons on dvd go here

to read about their movie "run ronnie run!" that new line is now refusing to release go here

anyway, i'm sure this thread is probably going to go over about as well as my art nouveau thread, but it doesn't matter, i just had to share this show with you guys. hopefully, at least one other person in the house has seen it so we can talk about our favorite sketches and what not.

so... discuss...?

 

I think it's on The Comedy Network here in Canada, but I've never seen it.

But the guys were on "The Daily Show" the other day

 

they were? oh man, i missed it!

does your comedy network allow swearing? because mr. show is full of it. if it is on you should watch it, i'm not going to say it's the best show ever but it's damn close.

 

I'd like to see it now, Tom -- but, you know. Holland.

I'll be on the look-out, though.

 

you should be able to get the DVD's Casper. i never saw it when it was originally on either since HBO is one of those channels that you have to pay extra to get. but the DVD's are doubley funny because you can watch every episode with commentary by bob and david and guest appearances by people like the billy dee williams.

 

read this...

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[b]Letter From The Future[/b]

Hello, I am from the future. My name is Tully Spetertrench and I am writing from my home state of Baja California Mexico California. The year is 2218. I would normally just use my Teleporter 3000 ?, and simply hand -deliver the letter, but my teleporter got ****ed up in the Not Enough Beer Riots of last quarter, so, here it is. I have mailed it to a MailBox Etc in the fall of 1998, but we all know how lame the Post Office is so who knows when it will eventually get there. I can't recall, and I don't feel like looking it up, but how expensive are stamps back then? Now they cost over two children apiece! Anyhoo, hello there. What about me? What's going on with me?

I woke up this morning and when I opened my eyes, I could barely believe the official headline that floated above my bed-like© pseudo-bed®?. It read, "Nigger Elected President!" Wow! This was truly historical. A black man was in the White House©.

Jason Nigger had actually won. Mr. Nigger was able to overcome an unfortunate and ironic last name to claim the seventh most powerful position in The United States Of America And Friends. Personally, I had rooted (as "voting" is now called) for Devry Ahmad, a pre-post-op transsexual, and scion of the wealthy Ahmad family. The Ahmads made their fortune in the artificial heart sauce business, creating over twenty different sauces for artificial hearts. I didn't mind Nigger, but I was swayed by Ahmads promise of a free immigrant for every true American citizen if elected. There are some things I'm looking forward to in this new administration. Ahmad seems pretty intent on un-freezing Paul McCartney and Wings, and his radical idea to literally re-invent the wheel is intriguing, if not wholly impractical.

I looked out of my window and saw that the snow had started to lightly fall on the artificial trees. Enough lollygagging around, It was time to go to workfun. I popped a few shower pills®?, put one of my penises (evolution!) in the penis scanner and left my space.

I work at the local Water®© Treatment Plant. Officially my title is Head Of Crybabies I guess I should explain. When the last source of fresh water was poisoned in 2078, the country instituted a bold, and exciting new plan to replenish our water supply. De-salinization of tears! So, after it became legal to clone immigrants, Senate Pro-Tem Wal-Mart (R-Texas) came upon the solution of torturing them and extracting their tears! Now water only costs 14 tap-dances!

When I got to my workfun station, my boss, Angela Lansbury's Cousin the Third told me that she needed to see me in her office. "You're orifice?" I asked, thereby fulfilling my pun quota of the day. "Very good", she replied, "but seriously, I need to see you in my office." I knew this day was coming, but still, I was caught off-guard. When I got to her office she motioned me over to her bed. I took off my jacket, put on a hat, and crawled under the covers. We had a couple of minutes of sanctioned sex, I filled out the forms, and then she fired me. Fortunately, I had a contingency plan for income. I collected my severance meal, walked over to Sir Banks-A-Lots, cashed out all my savings, and went home. When night came, I broke into my neighbors space, hopped in his teleporter and ported back to early 2001. I invested all of my savings in American flags made by Chinese prison labor (I also invested heavily in Chinese prison labor) and then ported back to my current time and space. I went to my bank account the next day - Viola"! The old "Teleporter Switcharoo". I can't believe it took me that long to figure out something so obvious, and a clean, simple ending to this little story. I am truly sorry for deflating the ridiculous hopes that some science-fictiony types out there might have of someday being able to travel through time, but, seriously, if a time machine ever was really invented at some point in the future, wouldn't there be a record somewhere of people coming back to any point in time prior to right now? Of course somebody

 

LOL. Funny stuff.

 

I like the show when I get to watch it. It's actually pretty funny. They're doing a tour and I'm planning on trying to go when it's at UCLA in October.

 

glad to find a fellow fan here Tashi!

i'm definitely going to try to see them when they're in seattle. do you have any favorite sketches from the first two seasons? (those are the only ones i've seen)

 

"And then tragedy struck...Captain Tragedy!"

Hell if I can remember which skit that was from but that line jumped out and smacked me over the head.