
We might as well hand over our entire Television category to Intern Molly, since she's just about the only person who can actually stomach this fall's offerings without pressing her morphine drip button (comes with the job) more than twice per minute.
But we refilled her drip just in time for last night's premiere of David Spade's The Showbiz Show, Comedy Central's attempt to port the success of The Daily Show to the entertainment industry.
In the end, Intern Molly finds some entertaining bits, but that's probably because, well, it is the entertainment industry.
Interestingly enough, the funniest thing about The Showbiz Show is David Spade himself, whose movie career in the past few years has been a little more Joe Dirt than Tommy Boy. Dry humor is what he does best, and somehow he has managed to work his slightly creepy nature to his advantage. The fact that if he wasn’t a famous or rich comedian he would almost certainly be molesting 12-year-old girls adds a pleasantly lecherous aspect to his bits.
Her full review after the jump.
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The first thing you'll notice about Wired.com's "sit down" (the "stand up" keeps getting the shaft) with Jon Stewart and Daily Show exec producer Ben Karlin is that, in nearly half the Q&A, the questions are longer than the answers.
You might point to Stewart's succinct delivery, but we're putting our money on the absent notations of smirks and gestures, which would've filled the page.
Oh wait, smirks and gestures were included.
Let me ask you about the Crossfire thing - not about your critique of that show, but about the reaction to it.
Stewart: Ben was there, by the way. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing his face and realizing, "I guess this isn't going well."
Karlin: Well, we had hand signals, and before the show I made the mistake of saying that this [drawing his finger across his throat] meant "Keep on going, great, do the exact same thing." So I was frantically doing this [draws finger across throat fast].
What was the symbol for stop supposed to be?
Karlin: [Gives thumbs-up.]
Stewart: It was a stupid way to do it.
Then again, it got Tucker Carlson his own show.

Between John Stewart's The Daily Show and David Spade's The Showbiz Show, is there anymore room for fake news? We hope if you're reading this website, you know there's always more room in this space!
Comedy Central knows that too, which is why they're piecing together The Colbert Report, hosted by The Daily Show's own (deaf-in-one-ear) Stephen Colbert — who's sticking around 513 West 54th while Stewart moved a couple blocks west. It'll debut in October with a time slot following The Daily Show, ensnaring viewers into a full-hour of anchorman wit.
New Yorker chief hottie David Remnick tackled Colbert's new project himself, revealing the comedian's ambition to grow as a, uh, serious journalist.
If “The Daily Show†is faux evening news, “The Colbert Report†will be faux Bill O’Reilly. “The focus will be me, lots of me,†Colbert said. “Occasionally, we’ll turn the camera elsewhere, but only for pacing.†And what sort of presence will “Stephen Colbert†have? “My ambition is to have Stone Phillips’s neck and Geraldo Rivera’s sense of mission.â€
We would've gone for Jane Pauley's fine lines, Anderson Cooper's hair and Keith Olbermann's self-awareness.
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