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13 hours ago, iMonrey said:

I did like the puppy-themed show, I'm a sucker for puppies. Downward Dog is a really strange show, and I've never heard of any of the panelists before. I wonder how Allison Tolman would have done. 

Probably similar to  Lucas with help from the writers,, who needs to cut his hair I barely recognized him from Raising Hope, the other two are UCB trained. 

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The Rupaul's Drag Race queens brought it. All their jokes were true to their style, Katya was intellectual, Ginger Ming was more middle of the road , but high in quantity, and Alaska threw a few brilliant sparks. I thought the miscarriage line was the best in the show, and considering Katya's "Video killed the labia scar" and "Drag Spicer name: Melissa McCarthyism", that's saying something.

Natasha Leggero has the most annoying laugh ever. Before I even saw who the panel was I heard her laughing off camera and thought "Oh no."  There's another comic with a similar laugh, she has short blonde hair and I can't think of her name. 

It's interesting there was no plug for Another Period. It's a Comedy Central Show and it was supposedly renewed for a third season, but the last two seasons debuted in June and it's already July. I wonder if was cancelled after all.

I didn't know that Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher were married either! I remember when she used to be on Chelsea Lately a lot she and he were dating but I thought they had broken up. Good for them!

I was also hoping there would be a mention of Another Period and when/if it will start up again but no such luck. I was surprised Chris would break up a married couple with the red light.

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James Davis' flirting with Kristin Chenowith was a little distracting. She is a charming nugget, though.

At least Jim Norton was fairly muted this time out. Why he thinks the world is endlessly fascinated by his sexual peccadillos I'll never know.

I feel like I may need to comment on every episode now that the countdown to darkness has begun.

@Midnight cancelled:

http://deadline.com/2017/07/midnight-canceled-end-run-comedy-central-600-episodes-four-seasons-1202130613/amp/

That's really too bad. I'm not sure I believe their denial that is has nothing to do with the new Jordan Klepper show. 

Kristin Chenowith is a real sport if she truly showed up thinking she was doing one of Hardwick's "Talking" shows.

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Shoot.  First The Soup and now this.  I know they're different but I liked each of these shows and their hosts.  I know Chris has a lot of haters, but I like the guy.  I just can't help it. 

I loved Kristen Chenowith on this.  If she really thought it was for the talk show but was a good enough sport to stay- then my love for her doubled.  Of course, she'll always have a special spot in my heart for Pushing Daisies.

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I was hoping Chris would address the ending of the show but apparently this week was taped in advance because he's at Comic Con this week. I look forward to his return next week and hearing how he spins it.

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Wouldn't he still be making money if he owns the show then? 

What I mean is that it wasn't so much about Hardwick as it was about the show itself. He's the executive producer in addition to being the host. (He doesn't seem to have any stake in Funny or Die after all, now that I look a little deeper). There's a lot of CC executive blather about "we're so excited about developing Jordan Klepper's show blah blah blah" that I think it did in fact mean tossing @midnight aside. Apparently @midnight got a nice ratings bump when it moved to 11:30, so moving it back to 12:00 likely means losing viewers. In that respect, it did come down to Jordan Klepper's new show vs. @midnight. 

I can see from a semantic stand-point how it could be considered a "mutual decision" between Hardwick and CC, if they took him aside and said "Look, we're moving the show back to 12:00 which means the ratings will probably drop back down to what they were before and we're giving Jordan Klepper the 11:30 spot instead of letting you keep it. You still want to go forward?" In which case Hardwick probably said "I guess not" because he does have a full enough plate with his other shows now. But that's splitting hairs. They kind of forced his hand, it seems to me.

Chris's acknowledgment seemed contradictory. He started out calling the show "cancelled" and even joked it was the audience's fault for not watching the show more. Then he went into this elaborate spiel about how it just felt like it was "time" as though he were part of the decision. I'm sure he doesn't want to burn bridges but I'm definitely still getting a sense that Comedy Central forced him out but both are trying to play it off as a mutual decision.

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