This is a
seriously weird little show. Equal parts
fake talk show and surreal comedy, it’s just supremely odd. While there are bits that are just the right
amount of absurd, it doesn’t quite work for me on the whole.
Scott
Aukerman hosts his own (slightly-ramshackle) talk show, aided by his musician
Reggie. In this episode, he interviews
Clark Gregg (who comes armed with some less-than-amazing MCU props,) as well as
a lawyer campaigning to establish a national “spank-fee” holiday on behalf of
“bad little boys.”
On the
whole, just odd. The usual fake talk
show is interspersed with crazy random gags, like Scott’s usual “taking book”
(he does a bit where different parts of his set “come alive” and he chats with
them) being played that day by a human temp, or Reggie running out of the
studio mid-show to chase down his true love.
While there are some funny bits – I like Scott’s silly back-and-forth
with Clark Gregg as they increasingly fail to remember the title of Cujo – a lot of the humor is a little
too awkward to be really effective for me.
Andrew
Rannells plays Quinn Abernathy – not an official guest on the show, he crashes
the interview with the Spank-Free Day guy.
He represents a coalition of good
little boys, don’t you know, and he thinks a spank-free day should be earned by
good behavior, not just given out for no reason.
Less
silly-funny and more silly-dumb. It’s a
short bit, a few minutes of them going back and forth on the merits of bad vs.
good little boys. From what I can tell,
the main reasons Rannells is here are because a) part of this good/bad debate
is in song (and it’s almost laughable how bad the other guy’s singing is in
comparison,) and b) he still some “wholesome” goodwill leftover from playing Elder
Price (even though, at this point, he had
snorted coke off a toilet seat on Girls,
so…) At any rate, it’s a goofy/dumb
little bit that gets its job done in a weird way.
Recommend?
In
General
– Nope. More awkward than funny, very
“eh.”
Andrew
Rannells
– Naw – there isn’t enough here to be of interest.
Warnings
A little
slapstick violence and some suggestive references.
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