Chapelle? Already?
I live under the rock that is literature and so a great deal of what happens in pop culture just goes whoosh. I have no idea who Cat Deeley is, so when I watched the 'Amsterdam' episode of House of Lies, I didn't get it. But, I was watching House of Lies which says I'm not too far off the planet.
I dig Cheadle. He seems like the kind of dude I could chill with if only he wasn't rich and famous or if I was. So much for that dinner date - still I'm sure we would get each other's jokes. For some reason, I tend to like his latest dimensions of badass. You could click that up to a latent black man thing. The first of the two was his film Traitor, which I think is his best role yet. I didn't like Talk To Me and well, Hotel Rwanda is what it is. The problem of course is that you can't tell me that Cheadle has to do all the shy guy roles when you have Paul Giamatti doing 'Shoot Em Up'. See what I'm saying? So this new dimension of badass is equally over the top. I haven't determined if I totally like it or if it's going to annoy me after four episodes because right now it's a very Hollywood view of my tangential industry, management consulting. It's close enough to be funny as in insider joke funny. It's hyperbolic enough to be funny as in youre so ridiculous Lucy. It's patently sinful of course, after all, it's on Showtime and HBO owns Showtime. You've got to be that kind of Hollywood sick to get those reprobate producers to finance 'entertainment'. What a bunch of vampires. We'll see.
In the meantime there's a new skit duo that are as funny as... Hmm. When's the last time we had a skit duo that wasn't Saturday Nite Live or Penn & Teller? Well, now we have one: Key and Peele already being compared to Dave Chapelle. Their Obama's Anger video has gone as viral as Baracka Flacka Flame, and so it comes as no surprise that the New Yorker Nuyorkican slum village crowd will glom onto it like Eldridge Cleaver's slacks. I get the feeling that they'll be bored too soon, because Key and Peele are probably not going to go there - there being the edgy place that gives comics like Chapelle and Rock a moment to work up a politically tinged sneer. Which means they are going to be short-timers with great talent like Tommy Davidson and David Alan Greir, two other intelligent men who refuse to clown or hoorah on cue. I get the feeling that they write their own stuff too. That means two seasons.
I'm such a cynic. But at least I'll get to laugh. Does Comedy Central still bleep everything?
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