NBC has unveiled its fall schedule (watch pilot videos here), and as you might expect from the company that brought you Jay Leno at 10 p.m., there are at least two horrible decisions. First, the increasingly brilliant “Parks and Recreation” has been bumped to midseason, even though a couple episodes are already completed due to a hurried production schedule caused by Amy Poehler’s pregnancy.
Pushing “Parks & Recreation” to one midseason was, [NBC entertainment president Angela] Bromstad said, was “one of the toughest decisions we had to make. Ultimately we wanted to get a new comedy on our schedule … it’s not in any way any indication that we don’t think it’s good. It seems on cable you can wait a year and actually create more anticipation for a series so we’re not losing momentum.” The executives added that the network may give “Parks” a run at 9:30 p.m. when it returns. [THR]
Even worse, as you may have gathered from the banner image, NBC picked up a “comedy” from Paul Reiser called “Next.” Which is an appropriate name, because it’s what I’m going to say every time I come across it while flipping channels. Paul Reiser is a black hole where laughter, smiles, and the memories of good times go to die. He stole Woody Allen’s bit, but forgot to take the wit. He can’t possibly fall into a cement mixer soon enough.
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Show of hands, who else thought Paul Reiser was dead?
And yeah, f nbc in the b for that P&R decision.
Show of hands, who else knows who Paul Reiser is?
You’re totally right about Paul Reisers doucheitude, but that doesn’t explain away my odd fondness for My Two Dads, despite the fact I haven’t seen the show since it was taken off the air.
To be fair, Reiser was somewhere between awkwardly amusing and mildly funny in The Aristocrats.
plugshood
Don’t blame NBC, blame GOB Bluth’s pecker.
/My Two Dads was the best pro-homo show ever
When reached for comment, Jeff Zucker said, “Hey, when you can lock up a marginal talent who has been off the air for over a decade on the same day you bump a smart, witty, ever-improving comedy to midseason, I mean, that’s a banner day around here. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m late for a meeting with Jeff Dunham’s people about him replacing that McHale guy on ‘Community.’ Fingers crossed!”
My hate for Paul Reiser grew exponentially when reading his defense of Jay Leno. Check it out:
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
I’d watch a show about Paul Reiser getting stabbed.
I thought that guy killed himself a while back.
The other pilot that looks like it is going to set the world on fire, is “Outsourced.” A show about an American who goes to India to manage a call center. Cultural differences are funny.
Paul Reiser and Richard Lewis can have a Touching-Your-Forehead-While-Raping-Funny contest, where the prize is me kicking them in the taint.
@JordeeVee As a general rule, anyone who uses the phrase “teachable moment” deserves to be flayed alive.
haha yeah, I agree. And wouldn’t you know, it’s just as smug and condescending as you probably imagined. Leave it to someone with no comedic talent and sense of humour to stand up for someone with no comedic talent and no sense of humour.
@ Matt – the only problem with watching a show about Paul Reiser getting stabbed is that it’d mean he would have to be hired. Unless of course you’re talking about a reality show where he is the unknowing recipient of our sharp knives. Another good one could be an American Inventor type show where people pitch ideas on how to stab Paul Reiser, and then their ideas are dramatized through animations.
You just hate Reiser because he called your fellow Marine Michael Biehn a “grunt” and sold him out in Aliens.
Dick Butkus carried “My Two Dads.”
Paul Reiser epitomizes to me, the entire vapid “what’s the deal with airline food” comedy of the 80s that was trying to copycat talented guys like Jerry Seinfeld.
Hate NBC? Please do a story on ‘The Cape’
William H. Macy who approves eir scheisse?
There was a dark time in popular culture where Paul Reiser was “relevant” and Holly Hunt was considered “attractive”.
It was a dark, dark, dark time.
@UncreativeHandle Even in the Aristocrats Reiser fucking sucked. He tells about fucking up the punchline, “AristoCATS” and says his audience would think that was part of the joke. Makes no fucking sense! Paul Reiser you stupid cunt-fuck. I hope Gaspin and Zucker get herpes in their eyeballs and pricks.