30 minutes of patience is only 22 when you have Tivo. That's a good thing because this new disjointed FX comedy has gotten the last 22 minutes it is ever going to suck out of my life.
I know what Danny DeVito was trying to do here. He was trying to go madcap. I would love some madcap comedy. I would be so bold as to say we poor saps in America are deathly lacking in madcap. Before Steve Martin became an insufferably serious art collector, before Mork from Ork became the self-righteous prick that swallowed Robin Williams some nanoseconds after he shared the stage with Whoopie Goldberg for the first time at Comic Relief, we used to have authentic madcap comics. It has all gone to shit. We realized this when we made Chris Tucker a star, but of course its Rush Hour that has sucked all the air out of that. We're left with what? Owen Wilson trying to commit suicide?
Now I grant you that we do still have a little bit of madcap. The current master in residence is none other than Jumbulingham Chandrasekhar aka Broken Lizard, the guy that gave us Beerfest and Super Troopers. However that's more in the mode of the Kentucky Fried Movie rather than Airplane. The gags are raunchy which is the new gross-out funny. You know the speil.. it all ends up at Band Camp. But once upon a time, we had Throw Mama From the Train, and the great madcap black comedy Drowning Mona.
So it makes sense that DeVito would get involved in what this FX show is trying to be. But dammit it doesn't frickin' work! Please bring back Starved.
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