Friday, July 30, 2004

A moment of silence, please...

Comedy Central has cancelled The Man Show.

It was inevitable - it took the only occasionally funny season-and-a-half from Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope to make me appreciate just how good Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel were. Carolla and Kimmel managed to poke fun at themselves most of the time, and even the most outrageous antics on their part were still delivered with the kind of wink at the audience that' almost imperceptible. Rogan and Stanhope had a few moments, but they were pretty much just a couple of misogynists with a TV show.

The biggest crime Rogan and Stanhope did under their watch, though, was the inexcusable misuse of Juggy Vanessa. Those of you who will admit to having watched The Man Show know what I'm referring to. Not only was she a living Barbie doll, but she was pretty darned funny when they let her do bits on the show. All Rogan and Stanhope did with her was basically use her as a pole dancer, and that was just sad.

In a side note, three of the Juggies wound up in WWE's ridiculously stupid "who wants to be a Diva" contest - the twins and some girl named Christy who came on board with Rogan and Stanhope. Cute though they all are, the whole contest thing they're doing (check out the WWE website if you're wondering what I'm talking about) is so dumb that I can't bear to watch it. And I am a fan of both pretty girls and wrestling to boot.

The bright side of the contest is that it lets me TiVo that much faster through Raw every Monday. They waste about 20 minutes per show on it so far, so with the commercials factored in I only have to watch about 70 minutes or so to catch a complete 2-hour episode.

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