![]() Chip Douglas (voiced by Fred Armisen) is a Latino puppet with a heavy accent. Birchum (voiced by Adam Carolla) is a war veteran that gets angry easily. “lady.” Terrence (voiced by Jimmy Kimmel) is always the assistant of a celebrity that sets up events and states the unusual demands of the celebrity. He is a mentally handicapped puppet who repeats stuff ad nausea and calls men The above-mentioned Special Ed (voiced by Jim Florentine) is probably the most un-PC and most popular. The show has many recurring characters that make calls. Show have never seen a rule against puppet nudity, so sometimes we see naked puppets, especially when they are crank calling a phone sex line. ![]() ![]() People make real crank calls, a la The Jerky Boys, and are represented in physical form by puppets (the people they are calling appear as puppets too.) The producers of the In case you have never heard of the show, the concept is very simple. Shows you that a show does have the possibility to grow in popularity, if not maturity (though this show never strived for maturity.) Comedy Central sent me the first two episodes of the third season, and I want to try to convince you to check it out if you haven’t before. They were all over the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards (remember the confrontation between Special Ed and Eminem?), and my brother even likes to quote from the show. Predicting that it wouldn’t be the next hit since “ South Park.” I now know that I am wrong on both counts, because we are now at the third season, and those crazy puppets are infectious…and a genuine hit. I thought it was okay but that it wouldn’t grow on me. When I reviewed the first season of Comedy Central’s “ Crank Yankers” last year, I wasn’t that impressed with it. Just don’t play it too often, or it’ll get old quick.Home | Movies | TV | Music | Books | Video Games | FAQ | Links It’s not very high-brow, but it’s plenty funny. ![]() There’s a bunch of good stuff here (David Alan Grier does a typically classy turn as a guy who calls phone sex but just can’t stop projectile vomiting), and some boring stuff (all that Elmer and Helen Higgins stuff) and some stuff that worked better when you could actually see the puppets “acting” out the call, like their fake UPS call where they get a couple all worked up over a lost package and they all start swearing.Īnd then, of course, there’s some not-very-hilarious racism (why does Jimmy Kimmel hate Karl Malone so much that he has to make fun of his accent? what the hell is that all about? I hate Malone too, but not because he’s a black man from the south) and some really-not-very-funny burns on mentally ill people (who the hell decided that “Special Ed” was funny in the first place?). He has another bit here with sample Hallmark cards he wants to write, but it’s not as good as the other one. ![]() The famous bit where he tries to take out a personal ad in the Village Voice: “Well-endowed player, 31, seeks dirty ho to sip Cristal,” and it just gets worse from there. The big star here is Tracy Morgan’s “Spoonie Luv” character. I’m hired”), and the second one is the one where she (under the auspices of “the Municipal Waste Management program”) calls a couple to ask them “to reduce the amount of solid waste being flushed by approximately 18%” is just rotten-spirited fun I can’t help laughing when I hear “Our motto is, ‘Too many poos, we all lose’.” If this disc was all Silverman, I’d say it was the best thing ever recorded. Her two tracks here as “Hadassah Guberman” are two of my favorite bits from the show ever the first one is her application to be a nanny (“You know what?” she asks, “I like you. This second volume of prank calls is better than the first one, mostly because Sarah Silverman is the funniest person currently alive. ![]()
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