The Showbiz Show: Stale, inappropriate and filled with bad haircuts
 

The Showbiz Show

Ever since we coerced Intern Molly into offering up her Showbiz Show roundups, we know you've been loving every word dripping with David Spade's dirty facial hair.

And so last week, while Intern Molly took a vacation and didn't think we'd notice, we're certain your Friday workday didn't live up to the entertainment value of Men's Vogue without your Showbiz Show roundup.

Thankfully, Molly decided to file yesterday's recap — while still on holiday. So please thank her, because we're really short on gratitude 'round here.

After a much needed week three hiatus, I returned to The Showbiz Show refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to be blown away by David Spade’s superior comedic stylings. After about five minutes, I remembered what show I was watching.

Ahh, The Showbiz Show: It’s like that friend you’re afraid to introduce to new people because he has a tendency to do completely inappropriate things, like deem October “Hug a Black Guy Month” (thanks, Rob Lowe!), or say something like “What’s hot? Chihuahuas. What’s not? Guatemalans.” The Showbiz Show is just a bit of a liability to bring out in mixed company.

There's plenty more staid Hollywood jokes, after the jump.

After a much needed week three hiatus, I returned to The Showbiz Show refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to be blown away by David Spade’s superior comedic stylings. After about five minutes, I remembered what show I was watching.

Ahh, The Showbiz Show: It’s like that friend you’re afraid to introduce to new people because he has a tendency to do completely inappropriate things, like deem October “Hug a Black Guy Month” (thanks, Rob Lowe!), or say something like “What’s hot? Chihuahuas. What’s not? Guatemalans.” The Showbiz Show is just a bit of a liability to bring out in mixed company.

The news section, as usual, was stale. It was far more interesting to see what the audience booed/cheered for than to try to find any sort of funny in Spade’s jokes. Apparently, Michael Jackson child molester jokes are no longer acceptable. What? A dude wins one case and we can’t tease anymore?

David Spade’s “There I Said It” section is shaping up to be the best part of the show. He took the opportunity to remind us how Eva Longoria should pull her shit together and act less like a 16-year-old and more like the 30-year-old woman that she us. I’m sure that Eva loves to be reminded how she came out in a bathing suit at the VMAs making this completely tasteless in retrospect joke: “I wasn’t about to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.” the day before Katrina hit the gulf coast. Yikes.

es, Longoria is an attention whore — who should “turn down the publicity machine about a million percent.”

Every reviewer has made note of the English accents on the HBO show Rome. Only The Showbiz Show took the time to dub it over with lovely stereotypical Italian accented dialogue about lasagna and getting a GED.

The MTV in 1985 clip bit is pretty good as well, because it’s always hilarious to make fun of the ways celebrities manage to fuck up their lives. It’s also good to see Martha Quinn at her peak, before the Noxema commercials.

Jesse Klein, the show’s celebrity expert, really needs to work on her delivery (and, while we’re on the subject, her haircut). Her interactions with Spade are awkward, and not in the way intended. She should relax a bit if she wants to make this gig work.

This episode was certainly better than the week two debacle. Perhaps The Showbiz Show is settling into a rut of mediocrity, which, in all honesty, is better than a lot of what is out there. The show as a whole was still awkwardly organized, but this episode ended with a Laguna Beach winner — yes, it’s only a matter of months before Kristen is just another starlet Jared Leto has bagged.

The Showbiz Show Week 4: C+

 
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