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The Soup (2004–2020)

The show is getting very stale

[2/10 · 5 September 2009]

I have enjoyed tuning into The Soup and the first incarnation of it when it was referred to as Talk Soup. The show has seemed to really take a nap for the past year and a half. The host Joel who once was funny is now teetering on annoying. If you don't know the premise of the show, they take bits and pieces of everything from viral videos on the net to news shows on TV and they show them while the host introduces and comments on them and sometimes various crew members will do silly skits. The skits have become so dreadful that you actually cringe while they are on. The worst part about this is the show should write itself. I mean it is supposed to be the funniest or strangest parts from shows already done, yet they found a way to make it less funny. This has to be a combination of not searching for the best bits to show, the repetitiveness of the same tired jokes and the definite overexposure of the host Joel McHale who has used up his moment on screen and needs to give the reigns of the show over to a new host like other and better hosts in the past have graciously done.

The Hangover (2009)

Seriously what was funny?

[2/10 · 27 August 2009]

I just watched the movie and can't see what people find as funny. The movie was crude, fine. I have no problems with crude humor, actually will roar in laughter at it. It just has to be funny. I kept waiting for the funny parts of this movie to happen. -----A guy using the toilet while a tiger keeps roaring to get his attention. Wait it is working, the guy keeps peeing while he turns to notice the tiger----- Yes that got a huge roar of laughter from the crowd. They meet up with a girl. The one guy unknowingly married her the night before. Okay the joke is coming. She says she is a dancer, then corrects herself and says she is actually a prostitute. That was the joke, hear the crowd roar. I kept waiting for her to do something funny, come on get crude I don't care, just make it funny!!! I don't know how much you can say on this site but the friends tell the guy his wife is the one who cheated on him. He said it was alright because the guy didn't for censorship reasons "deposit DNA" inside the woman. Yes, it was filthy, didn't offend me but didn't' make me laugh either. I just hope that we don't get into a wave of films just making a rude comment to get a laugh without it actually having to be funny.