To provide the yin for Mad Typist’s yang, I hereby submit, in no particular order, a skewed-to-me (whom it is all about) list.
- “American Experience” – (PBS) always interesting, sometimes topical, I always learn something. Ditto for:
- “American Masters” – (PBS) so much more than “Biography”
- “Good Eats” – (Food Network) Alton Brown is a geek which makes me love him all the more. His fun presentation of food science with good recipes and a few silly skits thrown in never ceases to amuse.
- “Divine Design” – (HGTV) Yes, I am showing my domestic/designer side here but Candace Olsen has talent in droves and her results are inspirational. Like “Good Eats,” a few silly skits are thrown in to break things up. I guess I like silly skits.
- “The Daily Show” – (Comedy Central) This should be on everyone’s top ten list. Jon Stewart is simultaneously funny and smart with a soupcon of acerbic. Plus he’s my hall pass (not that he’d show up on my doorstep and want me but a girl can dream). If he’d just stop his love fest with McCain, he’d be the perfect man.
- “The Colbert Report” – (Comedy Central) Okay, I have to admit that sometimes the man, clad in his dead-on O’Reilly caricature, can irritate me. But I have been in mad love with him since the 2006 White House correspondents’ dinner and thereby had to give his show a thumbs up.
- “Masterpiece” – (PBS) Yes, it panders to my inner Anglophile but I love it. I’ve watched it since childhood and the original “Upstairs, Downstairs” and it calls to me.
- “Saturday Night Live” – (NBC) I know it’s not always funny but Kristin Wigg alone is reason to watch it these days. This, more than any other show to my knowledge, has influenced our slang. Remember when everyone was going around doing Rob Schneider’s “Making Copies” skit?
- “Doctor Who” – (SciFi and BBC America) Who would have guessed that Barty Crouch would make such a good time traveler? I miss Rose, I admit, and the seasons don’t renew quickly enough for me, but it’s damned entertaining light fare.
- “The Office” – (NBC) Steve Carrell has kept me laughing since his “Daily Show” days. I’ll even forgive him for Evan Almighty.
That’s my list. What’s yours?
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Okay, challenge accepted. I'll put my rebuttal list up later today on my blog.
You make me feel small and trashy.
thank you.
Go read my blog!
YOU spawned it...you read it.
My Top 10:
1. Any football game involving the Green Bay Packers (including pre-season).
2. Any baseball game involving the New York Mets (including August and September when they are 18 games out of 1st).
3. Grateful Dead concert footage on New Years Eve and /or during PBS pledge weeek.
4. Any episode of the Steve Corwin show.
5. SNL re-runs circa 1976-1982.
6. Any cooking show involving Emeril.
7. South Park.
8. Roaseanne.
9. 3rd Rock from the Sun.
10. 60 Minutes.
You redeem me by demeaning yourself.
Chest bump!
JD, you and Priddy need to get a room. You can both get small and trashy and rock each other's world. Now stop making me jealous.
Alton Brown. I love it when he shows us how to cook stuff and puts the science references in. I hate it when he goes on the road and goes to every heartburn-producing, artery-hardening, greasy unsanitary hog trough along the byways of the American Midwest and raves about the gut-busting grease they slop on the plates. That food wasn't worth shit when I grew up there and now I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Divine Design with Candace Olsen an acquired taste. One I've yet to acquire. But I do like "What Not to Wear" although I'm not sure why. Queer Eye was very informative and led to my buying a lot of stuff I'm never going to wear. Why did they take that show off the cable?
“The Daily Show” Jon Stewart
"he’s my hall pass" ?? Huh? He's my hall pass? Whazzat?
He's your idea of a wham-bam? You are a twisted one, Farmer.
“The Colbert Report” And you are in love with Colbert too? Voracious desert creature! Insatiable.
Kristin Wigg! Now you're talking.
Doctor (Yawn) Who? I can't get baked enough to understand this snail's pace drag of a show. But I'm nuts about the British "East Enders." Having lived in that culture for so long, I feel like I'm home when I hear that Cockney. Just you waait 'enry 'iggins, just you waait!
"The Office.” Sorry, but this show was funny the first season and now it's gone from self-parody to self-loathing. I get the feeling the cast can't wait until they hit the magic number for syndication so they can all make some dough and go on with their lives.
I'm so bored with television in general. Derivative formula shows spit out by committees and focus grouped to appeal to market segments for the sole purpose of pimping the rate card.
Just call me Mr. Sunshine today.
I was plannin' on you bein' there too, Farmer. Jeez!
And the one network show I watch every week, "Lost"?
Get out the pans, dont just stand there dreamin
Get out of the way, get out of the way,
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Line up a long shot maybe try it two times, maybe more,
Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor,
Why hold out for more?
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Askin you nice, now, keep the mother rollin
One more time, been down before,
You just dont have to go no more, no more.
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Jon Stewart has been my hall pass for ages. David's constantly changing his. It was Angelina Jolie but is now Anne Hathaway. He likes brunettes.
What can I say? I like smart and funny. A man who can both make me laugh and share an intellectual conversation does it for me everytime. If he is somewhat decent looking, that's a trifecta.
Dr. Who a yawn? You are thinking about the latest incarnation of the show and not the old seventies version, aren't you? I find it suspenseful. I must be boring.
Oh, and I do like "No Reservations," procopius. Bourdian is close to being a hall pass, now that he doesn't smoke anymore. But I'll still stick with Jon.
My top 10 (I who am not afraid of the small or trashy neither..it IS TV afterall) in no particular order
1) No Reservations (Travel Channel) -- the man is an amazing writer and he has balls to spare (sometimes, he even eats them...)
2) Top Chef (Bravo) -- Sorry, but I like watching a cooking competition where the people are actually talented.
3) Project Runway (Bravo) -- Because I just can't give up my inner sewing geek, or my inner fashion diva. Though the addition of "Fierce" to the public lexicon I could lived without.
4) Countdown (MSNBC) -- I know, I know, Kieth's a sexist pig. Somehow, I love him anyway. Because anybody who goes after Bill O'Reilly with that much verve I can't really bring myself to hate.
5) Battlestar Galactica (SciFi) -- Because it's that good and I am a scifi geek.
6) Heroes (NBC) -- Because it''s that good and I am a scifi geek.
7) Rescue Me (FX) -- So wrong on so many levels and still way too funny.
8) Chuck (NBC) -- Really funny and sweet.
9) West Wing (cancelled) -- yes, I know it is no longer on the air, but the only way I could keep myself sane during the Bush years was pretending that Jedediah Bartlett was really my President.
10) The Mole (ABC) -- because I can't help myself.
As long as you keep your horny toads out of it, I am usually pretty agreeable...
Did I say that? JD is a bad influence.
YOU are the problem.
Now I need to explain. The Rules of Sharing
1) The first rule of sharing is: no sharing.
2) If there is too much sharing, then please use stick figures.
3) If the sharing is too much for stick figures, please use claymation.
4) For some things, you must go straight to claymation.
Mr. Bill.
Oh Noooo!