I'm so glad that last night
Mad TV did a takeoff on Weekends With Maury and Connie (Bobby Lee as Connie - ha!). This has got to
be the worst show on television. At least Wife Swap has kids you might feel sorry for.This show so badly wants to be The Daily Show it's embarrassing (Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead is the executive producer). It wants to take current events and politics and give them an irreverent spin, while also tackling some serious issues with serious interviews. But the result is horrifying. Maury Povich gave up his membership card many years ago, when he started his sleazefest morning show, and Connie Chung continues to be the most laughable, incompetent newsperson since Ted Baxter. I still cringe when I think about her first CNN show a several years back, when she had Jon Stewart on and seriously told him he could be a major network news anchor. Stewart was stunned she was serious, as was all of America.
I also hate how at the beginning of the show, one of them actually says "Welcome To Weekends With Maury and Connie," 10 seconds after the announcer has already mentioned the title twice. Couldn't they just say "welcome to the show," instead of referring to themselves like that?
This is a show that could actually work - maybe even with a husband and wife team - but they have to get rid of Povich and Chung and retool it.
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3-20-2006 @ 9:27AM
Winger said...
This is the worst show I have ever seen - the perfect storm of stupidity.
How long will MSNBC let this dumbed-down garbage stay on?
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3-20-2006 @ 10:09PM
Tony said...
I adore this silly show!
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