@Midnight - General Discussion

[Phishbulb]

On 1/29/2017 at 2:09 PM, ABay said:

He looked familiar to me but I can't place him. Definitely not from YouTube, though, because I don't subscribe to anything there.

Going back a ways in the thread, but the millenial Youtube kid correspondent was Drew Tarver from "Bajillion Dollar Propertie$".

[zxy556575]

That was chaotic but fun. I had to pause in order to read the online hashtag submissions but they were pretty funny. Good job on whoever was reviewing them to select which ones to air. FTW with a surprise viewer entry was great but I wanted to know which one it was!

A lot depends on the panelists so we'll see how the live shows hold up the rest of the week. There aren't any camera hogs scheduled (hi Chris D'Elia!) so I'm hopeful.

I loved Kyle's t-shirt story and Tom's follow-up. Available on iTunes!!

[iMonrey]

How can it be "live" if they're still bleeping swear words? Is it on a ten second delay or something? I found the experiment to be largely a failure but that could be the panel. Or it may be that we're seeing the value of editing.

[attica]

It had to be pretty live, since they talked about Flynn resigning, something that didn't happen until late last night ET. So, yeah, they can bleep stuff with a few-seconds delay.

[PatternRec]

2 hours ago, iMonrey said:

How can it be "live" if they're still bleeping swear words? Is it on a ten second delay or something? I found the experiment to be largely a failure but that could be the panel. Or it may be that we're seeing the value of editing.

I'd say editing. One of the reasons they can edit stuff out is they film a show that's usually longer than its run time then edit down keeping the best. For a live show they have to have enough material to fill exactly the time and not cut anything so the stinkers stay.

[biakbiak]

A lot of live programs are on a seven second delay so they can bleep things.

[paigow]

Hardwick & Lennon doing Trump handshake pratfalls...very funny 

[paigow]

Problem with live show audience points is it becomes @Midnight Idol....hot girl vs. 2 dudes...Nostradamus not needed to guess the winner.

[possibilities]

I enjoyed the idea of a live audience submission being included in the finals.

[ganesh]

Why do they need to bleep anything at 11.30 at night? 

I only watched Monday, but I liked how uncontrolled it was. 

Did the cheesecake factory ever respond?

I don't know if it was the comedians, but I thought this was much funnier than the usual show. 

Edited February 15, 2017 by ganesh

[attica]

I hate public proposals with the heat of 10000 nuns, but this one came closer to minimal tolerability than usual. Having the comedians 'toast' them was a good snarky touch.

[iMonrey]

Awwwwww. There really is someone for everyone.

[paigow]

4 hours ago, attica said:

I hate public proposals with the heat of 10000 nuns, but this one came closer to minimal tolerability than usual. Having the comedians 'toast' them was a good snarky touch.

Corden had a good fake fail proposal...but it dragged on too long

[zxy556575]

On 2/15/2017 at 2:14 PM, iMonrey said:

Awwwwww. There really is someone for everyone.

Right? We see it every day of our lives just walking down a street -- and for me, looking in the mirror! -- but it's so rarely promoted on TV that it's worth celebrating.

(Although comedians as a whole frequently do play up their outsider personalities and alt-looks, so there's that. Of course the show itself venerates geek culture.)

Anyway, I hope they're able to incorporate some of the new bits from this week where possible; they've been fun.

Edited February 17, 2017 by Lord Donia

[PatternRec]

I like the proposal. I usually don't but this was fun. 

[zxy556575]

@rosebutt was the best answer on FTW! Maybe the best answer ever.

I protest the audience pandering to Chris and Wil's gif feud. ;)

[ABay]

That was a great show! Although it was inevitable, I'm sorry Heather Ann didn't get a bigger percentage of the votes--she's a lot funnier here than she's allowed to be on Whose Line, imo.

I loved the audience turning on Chris with Wil's GIF-JIF answer.

[attica]

The audience responses in hashtag wars were all really funny. "Harry Potter and the Chamber Pot Secrets"? Gold!

[ABay]

Harry Potter and the University of Phoenix made me laugh out loud.

[iMonrey]

I know Wil Wheaton is desperate to look like a grownup but that beard looks awful on him. 

[paigow]

5 hours ago, iMonrey said:

I know Wil Wheaton is desperate to look like a grownup but that beard looks awful on him. 

Nobody from Big Bang Theory told him to shave it???

[ganesh]

On 2/15/2017 at 5:23 PM, PatternRec said:

I like the proposal. I usually don't but this was fun. 

I don't either. The best part was her saying "pull my spanx down cowboy" right before. They looked like a fun couple. 

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I'm sorry Heather Ann didn't get a bigger percentage of the votes

She was much more funny than the other two. She should have won just for the feltching joke. Which, they can say that, but bleep out the other words?

I'll take any Futurama I can get, but I whatever Bender read was completely unintelligible. I know Bender is most famous, but he really should have read it as Randy. 

I've never heard anyone say "jif" ever. And I was around before the internet! Though Wil's final joke was really good. 

Edited February 17, 2017 by ganesh

[zxy556575]

Now I want an @midnight aftershow about what happens during the commercial breaks. Silver haired Canadian, eh?

I'm sure the live shows were ten times the work to produce and host, but overall they were super fun to watch. The bonus points vote was really close between the three panelists tonight and it was nice to see each of the ladies get some love. ("You can't cut Mamrie; she got bangs!") The Cheesecake Factory PR woman who drew the short straw was a good sport.

These viewer hashtag war submissions on the current administration were too good not to re-post:

• Deportlandia
• The Fresh Prince of Bad Hair
• Little Hands on the Prairie
• Whose Lie Is It Anyway?
• Donald Duck Dynasty
• Freaks and Leaks

But this throwback also made me sputter:

• The Bill Bang Theory

Edited February 17, 2017 by Lord Donia

[possibilities]

I thought the live shows were really good-- I don't even know why they were funnier, but they were. I loved the audience hashtags and third person on FTW.  The jokes seemed better, all around. I usually think usually-taped shows that do live shows are just gimmicky, and I don't enjoy them. But this was a vast improvement over the usual. I've been barely hanging on as a viewer of @midnight, but this week it was really good. Even the guests were not annoying, and I have NEVER liked any of them before (I don't mean the panelists, I mean the "guest act" that stands to Hardwick's other side and does schtick).

I agree it would be fun to see what happens during the commercial breaks. Couldn't they post them to the website as extras? Maybe they're not as fun as it seems like they are, but I'm curious.

[Dewey Decimate]

Not a bad endeavor; the Wil Wheaton ep was especially strong, and the Cheesecake Factory bit was actually pretty funny. On air proposals (that are obviously known and planned, at least by the dude and by production) make me cringe. And I will go straight to hell for this, but all I could think for #mylovelifeinfivewords was something like "fat chick settles for spazz". That said, mazel tov to them!

[ganesh]

I actually thought she was kind of hot. 

[ABay]

The viewer submissions were a fantastic addition this week. I wish they could do it every week. There was also a different energy from going live, I think, and the last couple of panels were great. I thought the Cheesecake Factory bit went on too long last night, but envy everyone getting a piece of cheese cake.

[attica]

I was kinda surprised to learn that the green dude dancing with Chuck Tingler was meant to be Frankenstein's monster. I thought he was Hulk! (But having had time to think on it, the latter would be copyright/trademark infringement, whereas Monster is public domain.) 

Loved the audience submissions all week long.

[zxy556575]

Let's not forget to ship Grace Helbig and Mr. Magoo! That segment made me consider my answer -- I liked Pepe Le Pew when I was a kid, but an animal seems wrong. I'd have to go with the talk show host version of Space Ghost. You guys?

Wheaton tweeted his own #PresidentialTVShows: Too Gross For Comfort

[ABay]

I'm torn between the Tick for physique and humor and Elmer Fudd because he's a millionaire and owns a mansion and a yacht.

[iMonrey]

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 The Cheesecake Factory PR woman who drew the short straw was a good sport.

The Cheesecake Factory in general was a pretty good sport about all of this. I don't think Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants have as much of a US presence; the nearest one to me is 2 states away.

I did like the viewer submissions, but they were also kind of distracting down there at the bottom of the screen. Overall I feel like the Live gimmick was hit or miss but worth the effort just for a change of pace.

[zxy556575]

We'll see if the Cheesecake Factory ever advertises with them now. Chris helpfully made that huge production out of how good his slice was.

I suppose I can now look forward to the writers switching out their Chipotle diarrhea jokes for Bubba Gump diarrhea jokes.

[ganesh]

The live shows were great all week. The show did a good job all around. I hope this is something like a twice a year event. 

Although, really, it's so much work you need to take the next week off? Ok, I guess. 

[possibilities]

I think part of why it was more interesting this week was that because it was live they didn't rely so heavily on sex jokes. I don't mind some ribald humor, but it gets boring when that's 90% of what they do. Mix it up! The internet isn't ONLY porn!

Also, I really did love the extra hashtags. "Hot in Grover Cleveland"! I had to pause my tv to catch the ones that kept popping up and I missed some anyway. But they were mostly very funny.

[attica]

3 hours ago, possibilities said:

"Hot in Grover Cleveland"

The best thing about this is that I can actually picture Grover and Betty White getting on like a house on fire!

[ChelseaNH]

On 2/17/2017 at 3:36 PM, iMonrey said:

worth the effort just for a change of pace

Agreed.  As with most of their experiments, something I'd enjoy about once a year, but not so much on the regular.

[ganesh]

Twice a year would be ok for me. I thought they did a great job.

[Locutus]

The only reason Wil Weaton keeps the beard is because he has more chins than a Chinese telephone book. 

Edited February 26, 2017 by Locutus

[attica]

Wow, that was a dull panel. I think even the premises were all boring. (I did giggle at the Youtube girls doing "'Juana. 'juana, 'juana." Because that's the stupidest part of the song, so you might as well go for it.)

[paigow]

2 hours ago, attica said:

Wow, that was a dull panel. I think even the premises were all boring. (I did giggle at the Youtube girls doing "'Juana. 'juana, 'juana." Because that's the stupidest part of the song, so you might as well go for it.)

It was like Talking Dead when Kirkman is there....Benson had to look like a comic genius

[iMonrey]

I saw just a little bit of Doug Benson's new show because I didn't change the channel fast enough. Boy, does it look dumb. This entire episode was a waste of time and painfully unfunny. I'm so over Benson's "I'm always high isn't that hilarious?" schtick. 

[ABay]

You know what would be a great anniversary gift for 2 Girls 1 Cup? Retirement.

[ottoDbusdriver]

On a completely superficial note, Natalie Morales still looks hot.  And that shirt she was wearing with that notch cut in the front was awesome.

[paigow]

1 hour ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

On a completely superficial note, Natalie Morales still looks hot.  And that shirt she was wearing with that notch cut in the front was awesome.

She should add a middle initial so nobody drops her off at the Today show...

[PatternRec]

5 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

On a completely superficial note, Natalie Morales still looks hot.  And that shirt she was wearing with that notch cut in the front was awesome.

 

4 hours ago, paigow said:

She should add a middle initial so nobody drops her off at the Today show...

I've always had a little crush on her. And when she was on the Doug Loves Movies podcast they had some good banter about the Today show 

[biakbiak]

Was it just me or did someone in the audience shout "fuck you" when Chris made his double wide trailer joke?

[PatternRec]

8 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Was it just me or did someone in the audience shout "fuck you" when Chris made his double wide trailer joke?

I haven't gotten to that bit yet. I'll listen for it. I just wanted to comment on how funny it was when the pointsme guest mistook Kurt Braunohler's real voice for him doing a female impression. 

[zxy556575]

I didn't think Chris would eject the Points Me winner, but it was nice for her that she ended up winning. I liked her FTW answer the best.

[paigow]

1 hour ago, PatternRec said:

I haven't gotten to that bit yet. I'll listen for it. I just wanted to comment on how funny it was when the pointsme guest mistook Kurt Braunohler's real voice for him doing a female impression. 

And Kurt's WTF when Tompkins buzzed in and did not answer about finger snapping dude...

[PatternRec]

1 hour ago, paigow said:

And Kurt's WTF when Tompkins buzzed in and did not answer about finger snapping dude...

haha it was a good episode. Kurt and Paul are super strong comedians so it made sense to have them on with a pointsme winner. I felt bad for Jessica a couple times when the others were riffing because it has to be intimidating to be around people with experience like that. One or two of her jokes fell flat but she was really funny overall, and she won me over with the obviously improv-ed line about people in Westchester plotting to kill Kurt after the whole thing with Kurt knowing that dude from the video.