The Showbiz Show: Caution, fake interviews are harmful to your humor
 

The Showbiz Show

Another Thursday, another evening we chain Intern Molly to the TV set for a round of Showbiz Show, where David Spade's breath isn't as stale as the jokes.

This week, The Showbiz Show started out appropriately, with a joke that had the following punchline: "Come in here and eat your momma's poon before it gets cold." Thanks Spade, I need a constant reminder of your line-straddling mediocrity and inappropriateness.

Though this episode was part of the recent upswing, The Showbiz Show has yet to find its groove. There is no reason for this show to be a full half-hour rather than a segment on a longer show, a la "Weekend Update" on SNL.

After the jump, Intern Molly doesn't get any nicer.

This week, The Showbiz Show started out appropriately, with a joke that had the following punchline: "Come in here and eat your momma's poon before it gets cold." Thanks Spade, I need a constant reminder of your line-straddling mediocrity and inappropriateness.

Though this episode was part of the recent upswing, The Showbiz Show has yet to find its groove. There is no reason for this show to be a full half-hour rather than a segment on a longer show, a la "Weekend Update" on SNL.

Sure, there were funny parts, but not enough of them. The news section continued to improve, with some 50 Cent/shooting and Richard Gere/hampster-based highlights. This is all well and good, but it certainly hasn't "torn Tinseltown a new one" as the ad slogans so professed.

Why are the commercials for the Showbiz Show funnier than the actual program?

In "There, I Said It," Spade spoke if how he would like to "redefine what famous means." Unfortunately, Spade, we feel like you might be on the losing end of this celebrity paradigm shift.

He did hit on something big by saying that we are not "celebrating" unnecessary stars; we are "tolerating" them. I like it: Tolebrities.

Tolebrities – , I'm using it – Amy Smart and Chris Klein proved to be some of the worst actors of their generation during the fake Just Friends interview segment. I admit that when it was Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer on the butt end of the joke, I fell for it. But this time? Yikes, they were poor.

And for the rest of the show Jesse Klein continued to sort of hate herself and make fun of Spade for liking the barely legal crowd. Oh, and it ended with a Robert Blake joke, because that is culturally relevant.

Showbiz Show: One out of every three jokes is really good. Let's try to up that ratio.

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