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The Daily Show (1996)
Horribly Boring
I really don't see how others can stand this show. The first ten minutes are okay, with Jon Stewart's outlook on things. I've never found him funny in anything he does but he is actually funny then and has a few good points. But then the shows goes into really lame mock correspondants and stupid mock interviews that aren't funny at all. Then there's a real interview which hardly has any relevence at all. I've occasionally tried to set through the show past the first commercial break, but the only time it was any good was with Lewis Black. This type of thing has been done so many times and in so many ways, all much better than this. I would suggest watching those, but not this one. There's got to be something better on th Tv, like perhaps real news. Better yet, get some fresh air. This is proof TV is overrated.
Mr. Nice Guy (1987)
Mike MacDonald's Big Screen Success (not Jackie Chan's)
I'm willing to bet that the low rating of this film on the IMDB is due to it getting confused with the Jackie Chan move of the same name: Yatgo ho yan (1997). This movie, starring Mike Macdonald, is actually pretty funny, and I wonder how it did not make it to the mainstream, and also makes me wonder why Mike Macdonald couldn't find success in Canada other than the Juste Pur Rire festival in Montreal, and the flop of Misquito Lake (which I wish I could see even though everything I hear of it is horrible).
This movie is good for those who like Leslie Neilson or Lloydd Bridges movies.
The Kids in the Hall (1988)
Funny and Satiric.
Compared to other troupes, the Kids in the Hall is pure genius. They could really teach others, such as SNL and Mad TV, a lesson in being satiric and actually entertaining. The more I watch new and recent troupes the more I see what they lack.
Some people might not get some of the sketches, partly because they require taste and intelligence to get what their saying most of the time, but also that there are a lot of cultural references to the Canadian Middle-class characters they grew up around. They present these characters in a tradition of a Wayne and Shuster, SCTV, Monty Python kind of way. Although some sketches are boring, I loved the Anal Probing Aliens and the guy ordering tea; "Give me a tea, you bastard, before I beat the crap out of you."