Spoiler alert: Last Call host Carson Daly, who has been inside both Jennifer Love Hewitt and your heart, hosts one of the more promising sounding New Year’s Eve specials on Monday. That’s how weak this year’s crop of ball drop coverage is, which is something we probably say every year, but we didn’t really mean it until now.
Daly and co-host Office star Angela Kinsey welcome Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman to their New Year’s Eve Live. That’s good. They’ll do the same for Donald Trump and Train. That’s bad. Pick your poison, I guess, or just watch the Veep marathon on HBO Comedy. But if you’re a masochistic who makes an annual tradition of watching people freeze their asses off in Times Square, here’s our guide to the best and worst NYE specials.
Choices are sorted by: hell no, *shrug*, and YES PLEASE.
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (ABC, 10 p.m.)
Host: Ryan Seacrest
Guests: Jenny McCarthy, Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Neon Trees, Fergie, Brandy, Flo Rida, Karmin, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, and Pitbull.
New Year’s Eve Live (Fox, 10 p.m.)
Host: Marlon Wayans
Guests: Tate Stevens, Lifehouse, and Carmen Electra
All American New Year (Fox News, 11 p.m.)
Host(s): Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly
Guests: Pat Benatar, Sarah Brightman, and Million Dollar Quartet cast
Club NYE (11 p.m., MTV)
Host(s): Snooki and JWoww
Guests: Ne-Yo, Rita Ora, Conor Maynard, Sean Kingston, and Ke$ha
New Year’s Eve Live (NBC, 10 p.m.)
Host(s): Carson Daly and Angela Kinsey (The Office)
Guests: Train, Cassadee Pope, Amy Poehler, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, CeeLo Green, Christina Aguilera, Donald Trump, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Fallon
New Year’s Eve Live (CNN, 10 p.m.)
Host(s): Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin
Guests: N/A
Eric Andre New Year’s Eve Spooktacular (Adult Swim, 11:30 p.m.)
Host: Eric Andre
Guests: Demi Lovato, Sebastian Bach, Omarosa, Kevin Sorbo, John Kricfalusi, and Hannibal Buress
Holy crap, TV is awful on NYE. The obvious choice is Andre’s special, but if you want more traditional coverage, I guess go with Daly and NBC, if only because Poehler and Offerman will show up at some point. There’s one more option on Showtime, for those who hates themselves and New Year’s, in that order.
Yup, it’s Dice Clay’s first standup special in 17 years. HICKORY DICKORY DOCK MY BALLS ARE GONNA DROP WHEN SHE’S SUCKING MY…I’m sure the Dice Man will finish the joke on Monday.
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Was going to say these all look atrocious until I saw Sebastian Bach and John K. will be on Adult Swim.
Have to go with the default setting here, Anderson Cooper – Kathy Griffin. Maybe Wolf Blitzer can juggle.
Was Andrew Dice Clay ever funny? I have to say that his WTF interview with Marc Maron was great, I guess he needs to be around other Jews.
I was here the first time he got big, and the answer is no. Unless you were in your sophomore year in your life but the fifth grade in your head. He was staggering popular for some reason, but I received (as a gift from HBO) a live CD back in ’98 or so. It’s still in the wrapper somewhere in a box if you want it.
One of my favorite stand up comedians Doug Stanhope said he got his start just repeating Andrew Dice Clay jokes so I watched one of his specials on netflix and didn’t manage to laugh once.
It was an 80s thing. Part of it was just the sheer audacity. He came in and shouted about what a superstar he was, you had no choice but to accept it.
Also, it started that dice Man was just a character. Andrew Clay Silverstein did a bit during his ruotine and everyone at that time on Long Island “knew” that guy. Half the audience were laughing with that character (because they were him in their minds) while the other half laughed at him. Dice even showed up on sitcoms and movies in Silverstein’s early career. Like a lot of comedians most of say aren’t funny, he found his audioence and ran with it. He took on Dice full time.
And, at some point, Silverstein became Dice. He probably had to throw himself in it fully to be able to do some of the material.
Can’t I just go to sleep early and spare myself the pain of making that choice?
Yep. I plan to start drinking (at home, with the wife and the dog and whatever neighbors show up) by 6 and be asleep by 11. New Year’s morning is for the beach, while the amateurs are still sleeping it off.
Fox’s ‘All-American’ show have a Scot and a Brit? Really?
I’m all for the Veep marathon.
Thank god for Netflix
My wife and I were baffled by the ad for Fox’s NYE show – it listed Carmen Electra as a “performer.” LOLWUT? If she’s performing they did a bad job burying the lede when they didn’t name it “FOX’s Rockin’ 1990′s Stripper Jam New Year’s Eve Featuring Hepatitis B”
So none of them, got it.
If you had told me Carson Daly had OD’d last year, I’d be like, “Yeah, that sounds about right.”
I usually just plug in one of the all music channels from my cable provider until the last minute or so.
I’m going to see Django Unchained at 10:45. I’m satisfied with that decision.
Eric Andre New Year’s Eve Spooktacular – One of the stranger things I ever seen on TV.