NBC fail

Baldwin moved to Canada when George Bush won.

 

I meant the overacting torch

 

Celebs mocking people. This is awful.

 

Might be the worst show ever.

 

I zoned out. As far as I can tell it was horrible.

 

From what I saw, it will be the closing ceremony of Seinfeld's career.

And they delayed the final hour of the closing ceremony for that? I mean, shit ... Nickelback is better than The Marriage Ref.

 

J: "This 10 p.m. thing is absolutely the stupidest thing they've come up with yet."
C: "Yeah, and I'll bet when it blows up they'll try to stiff all the staff people who move out here with me."

 

I wouldn't go that far.

It's shitty, but come on.

 

On the list of things NBC has done wrong in the past six months, this isn't even on the first page. They knew they had a lot of eyeballs, and used the occasion to introduce something they had in development that stars one of the most successful people in the history of television. Why would they not do that?

 

I'm a huge Seinfeld fan. But from what I've seen in the promos, I have zero desire to watch even a minute of the show. Based on the comments here, sounds like I'm not missing anything.

 

Marriage Ref isn't as quite as bad as the new HBO series Funny or Die. After watching the second episode of it, I'm CERTAIN with every fiber of my being that it is the worst half hour episode of television ever produced.

The thing is, I think that's supposed to be the joke.

 

Marriage Ref was horrible. Unwatchably so. The host had that horrible combination of being a.) unfunny, and b.) trying too hard. As I watched Jerry go over the top by laughing out loud at everything, as if to sell the viewing audience on the show, I kept coming back to one word: Sad. Sad that the namesake of my favorite sitcom now is now nothing more than a whore/shill.

The subject matter was decidedly unfunny, too. Taxidermy? Give me a break. When the dog's body was shown, my wife was mortified to the point that we spent the rest of the show discussing way-down-the-road cremation options for our beloved puppy.

Brought me to another point. While I don't find Leno at all funny, at least when he goes Jaywalking, the tone of the segment is playful and light-hearted, as if to say, "Ha ha, we all could've forgotten the president's name if we had a camera in our face." The tone of this show is downright mean-spirited -- to the point where I felt legitimately bad for each of the average Joes on the show. Whomever described this show as "celebs mocking people" was spot-on.