As we are wont to do, once again we forced Intern Molly to sit through David Spade's The Showbiz Show, otherwise known as last month's Us Weekly. It's getting so bad that we're thinking about suggesting to Intern Molly that she should apply at an internship in David Spade's little lair.
I watched last night’s Showbiz Show twice. Once while in a state where I should have found it funnier than it actually is. Once right after waking up. Neither time did I laugh.
Oh, Showbiz Show, why can’t you be funny? I want to like you, but your jokes have been done before and your news is old. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: this show should be on every night if it wants to be successful and up to date.
Lucky for you, the review is more entertaining than this week's show. Read all about it, after the jump.
I watched last night’s Showbiz Show twice. Once while in a state where I should have found it funnier than it actually is. Once right after waking up. Neither time did I laugh.
Oh, Showbiz Show, why can’t you be funny? I want to like you, but your jokes have been done before and your news is old. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: this show should be on every night if it wants to be successful and up to date.
I suppose that if I didn’t spend too much of my life reading Internet gossip sites (*cough*Jossip*cough*), these bits might be news to me. The fact is, they’re not.
Yes, George Clooney wanted to kill himself after getting injured on the set of Syriana. Yes, Dakota Fanning is creepy. Far too much of the show is focused on these one-liners, and it just doesn’t have the writing to make it work.
In an odd turn of events, the Showbiz Show did have a moment of heart during the useless opening news segment. Spade talks shit about degrading the midgets from The Wizard of Oz. Perhaps, as he alludes to later in the episode, the height issue is a bit of a sore subject for him.
Probably only consistently well-done segment of the show is "There, I said it." This week it was focused on Kate Holmes throwing her life and career (as if she had one) away to bear Tom Cruise’s children. It’s odd how David Spade can’t carry the short bits, but can manage a longer segment just fine.
The Martha Quinn on MTV from 1983 bit is funny, too, but the credit for that should go to the sweet, sweet irony of time. No one meant for calling Tommy Lee the “hugest member†of Motley Crue to be as clever as it is.
Speaking of Katie Holmes, the show still struggles from making multiple jokes at different points in the episode about the same topic. Choose one aspect of Holmes/Cruise to mock, make your joke and move on. Seriously.
This goes for Paris Hilton, too.
And I’m not sure why there is a need to make any Robert Blake jokes. He’s creepy. The trial is over.
It’s gotten to the point where Spade himself notes how unfunny his jokes are right after saying them. Multiple times. Per episode.
This week's show did have a shining star, however, in the form of Scott Adsit. He interviewed the stars of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, managing to offend both of the stars, call them the wrong names and mock the movie itself.
At one point Spade suggests that Madonna’s kid Rocco should get his own show, as if there isn’t enough crap on the television already. I’m talking to you, Showbiz Show. You have leveled out at a solid C-.
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