I like Dave Foley as much as the next guy:
Not at all.
Kids in the Hall never made me laugh. Newsradio did, but not when Dave Foley was on screen, and I have to say that the idea of having Dave Foley as some sort of comedy judge on “Thank God You’re Here” is completely laughable.
There’s no way some untalented, easy-going Canadian is going to tell ME who’s funny. I knew from the get go this would be terrible and settled down to watch the first episode of the show the other day, just to prove myself right.
I watched the debut and, while it isn’t the funniest show I have ever seen, I certainly laughed more than I thought I would – particularly at Stifler’s Mom who I thought would suck. Also, the guy who hosts Soup on E! was on, and he surprised me with the amount of times he got a laugh out of me. Newman did a good job but nothing too stellar.
But you know who I thought was terrible? Malcolm’s Dad/Tim Watley. Awful. I’ve never seen a stupider, more unfunny improvisation in my life.
Guess who Dave Foley picked as the “winner?”
I can say with absolute certainty that of all the people who are involved in comedy on TV, Dave Foley is in the top 3 of “Most undeserving of a job requiring people to either be funny or gauge the humor of others.”
The day will come when Dave Foley will die, hopefully in some sort of fight-to-the-death cage-match with fellow moron Carlos Mencia1 that renders them both lifeless from a lance that has pierced their brain, hurled by either Jack Bauer or myself making a surprise appearance.
Then I’ll host a show. And it’ll be called “Thank God you’re dead.” And Dave and Carlos will be the first to win an award. And I will pee on their graves. The end.
1I really hope someone leaves me a grammatically horrendous comment telling me how great Carlos Mencia is because he isn’t “afraid” to “tell it like it is.”
U R JUST JEALOUS CUZ MENCIA TELLS THE TRUTH!!! ABOUT LIFE! U CANT TAKE A JOKE AND SO U DONT GET IT. MENCIA IS FUNNY. HES NOT RACIST, HE SAYS WHAT PPL R THIKNING. AND THIS SITE IS THE SUX.
SUCKA DICK PLZ.
MENCIA RULES!!
Did you see Dave Foley on The New Adventures of Old Christine? Ok, maybe not…but he was really, really creepy on there. I hadn’t seen him in a long time and I didn’t know he had gotten quite that creepy.
I’m so, so, so very SORRY to disagree with you, but David Foley is the number one comedy genius (YES, GENIUS!) of the last twenty years; also, The Kids in the Hall created some of the smartest & most disarming material the comedy scene has been able to claim. The Kids remain as innovative & funny & fresh today as they were back in 1989. It was a ground-breaking show. They threw out all the rules & set the bar for sketch comedy. The Kids in the Hall are for sketch comedy what F. Scott Fitzgerald is for literature, it’s as perfect as it gets.
Though I do agree with you about Carlos Mencia, he is an awful swine-whore jackass who should be put down for his own good. He has no business living in this world & breathing the same air as the rest of us. He should just kill himself, the evil bastard. He fucks rats.
Wow! You’re an angry little boy. Does it upset you that these two are successful when you feel you should be? I doubt wishing them death will hurry your rise to stardom. But what the hell, die in a fire and all that.
sorry, but i think that dave foley’s hilarious. as was kids in the hall. that show is hilarious, makes me laugh. (yes, makes. i’ve got some of the episodes on dvd.)
but carlos mencia mades me want to stick a finger down my throat. ech. anyway, you shouldn’t critique (rather aimlessly) what you yourself cannot create, plox.
I think you might be biased against Canadians or something, because Dave Foley IS funny.
I had good laughs with “Kids in the Hall” and “News Radio” even when Dave was on-screen.
Criticizing someone is very easy.
Your article is worthless.