Monday - November 10, 2014

Take My Money, Please

After spending a couple of chilly hours raking out the garden, Drew goes online to do some early holiday shopping research ...

Unbelievable. There isn’t an official Comedy Central authorized line of Brickleberry stuff. Not even t-shirts.

Because, damn, I want a Malloy sleeper, ladies petite. Or a Brickleberry T, men’s 2XL.

They don’t exist. What’s going on? Is Comedy Central a bunch of anti-capitalist commies? Don’t they know how easy it would be to send a few cells over to Cafe Press and get the ball rolling? It’s, like, free advertising.

Brickleberry is a fantastic cartoon. It’s so wrong. So wrong, wrong, wrong ... that it’s just right!

Let me give all the fake outrage enthusiasts a head start on their Change.org petitions, their Facebook protest groups and their calls to television execs concerning Comedy Central’s new animated series Brickleberry. Here are the things about which you’ll be outraged: the making fun of a child quadruple amputee, animal abuse, overt racism (against blacks, Mexicans, Colombians and Koreans), jokes about AIDS, jokes about abortions, jokes about alcoholism, making light of the Klu Klux Klan, the implied imminent rape of a bear cub, jokes about rednecks and making fun of war veterans. Allow me also to apologize in advance if you feel I’ve missed anything once you’ve watched (for research purposes only, of course) the series premiere on Sept. 25 at 10:30 pm.

On his Comedy Central show “Tosh.0,” the comedian Daniel Tosh sometimes seems to be trying his very hardest to offend us by making the most sexist or racist comments possible. But he gets away with this because his targets, usually people who have made fools of themselves on viral videos, have set themselves up for ridicule. More importantly, his jokes are witty.

Although Tosh is the executive producer of the channel’s new animated series “Brickleberry,” it has neither of those redeeming qualities. The writers seem to think that being “outrageous” — by invoking stereotypes about minority groups or by going for gross-outs — is funny by itself. But the wearying onslaught of pointless, witless, mean-spirited jokes will depress viewers, with the possible exception of 12-to-14-year-old boys.
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Other bad jokes have little to do with the plotlines. Denzel says he likes dating old ladies because “they’re sweet, loyal, and they can take out their teeth.” Steve throws an amputee Cub Scout into a lake, presumably letting him drown. The show opens with a wide shot of wild animals having sex, including some practices that used to be called unnatural acts.

You betcha, lowbrow humor in its rawest form. And no one is safe. Which is why the show is simply awesome. Comedy Central, Tuesday nights at 10:30. It’s not for children.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/10/2014 at 05:47 PM   
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