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Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Sports, The Simpsons, Festivus, Dexter, Reality-Free, British TV, Sons of Anarchy
I love Christmas. It is the best holiday. If all of the holidays grew asses, Christmas could kick every other holiday's ass by ripping off their ass and beating them to death with said ass.
It's perfect on every conceivable level. It aims to achieve total peace and tranquility of the human spirit and singularity of the soul through the selfless act of giving. Of course, in order for that to work, someone has to be on the receiving end and I'm more than willing to have my every dream fulfilled in the name of calming the cosmic waves.
So here's my wish list to Santa or Jesus or Buddha or whomever holds the universe in balance for things to suck less until the next holiday.
Continue reading All Danny wants for Festivus
Posted Aug 11th 2009 3:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, Interviews, Game Show, Reality-Free, British TV
John Hodgman's public lambasting of the BBC for not bringing
QI to America didn't explain the network's reason for their decision, other than Dumb Ol' America is so dumb (how dumb are we?) that when we go to a sperm bank, we ask the teller for a BLANK.
Thankfully, Hodgman isn't the only man coming to the U.S.A.'s defense. John Lloyd, the show's executive producer, feels the same way so much so that he was willing to interrupt his vacation in Turkey to chat with me about it.
"Garth Ancier (BBC America chief) is convinced that Americans 'won't get it'," Lloyd said in an email. "We disagree (of course!)."
Continue reading Executive producer John Lloyd explains BBC's import impasse of QI
Posted Aug 8th 2009 2:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Game Show, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, British TV
John Hodgman seems like a gentle and mellow soul who uses wit, grace and intelligence to make his arguments, instead of more American methods of debate, such as yelling, name-calling or
numb-chucks nunchucks.
However, when something gets stuck in his craw, he can unleash an unholy tornado of rage and seething anger. He can muster the unstoppable force of an undersea volcano and spew forth a raw stream of pointed arguments and reasoned thinking that could melt the butt off of an Eastern gray squirrel.
This time, Hodgman pointed his pressure washer of wit towards BBC America for refusing to pick up a comedy panel quiz show called
QI.
Continue reading Hodgman activates rage gland against BBC America for not picking up QI
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