I did not have sex with that woman.

Teller doesn't really have a lot to say about this..

Penn Jilette is like the Amazing Atheist in that he always manages to remind me that I didn't always hate him.

He's not wrong about the Bradbury video being mad sexy, but the intelligence and humor contribute to that. You could ignore it in 2010. These days, however, even horny dudes on the internet have to talk at length about how talented she is. For example, this guy:

http://tinyurl.com/osman2c

>>It's still rare in network TV to find a show whose star is one of its creators, and all the more rare when that star was all but unknown beforehand. And even more so when the show turns out to be a star turn that makes it all seem so obvious in retrospect.

I just learned that Crazy ExGirlfriend is going to be broadcast in India. I don't know if that's unusual for an American Show, but that seems great for india.

I just love that nobody told me about this show, i saw it fresh, decided it was the greatest thing I'd seen in years, and the world is catching on, though it still just barely clings to life in terms of the rating. Even if it flops, it's going to be a legendary flop, on the order of Firefly, and Rachel Bloom is going to be huge.

Rebecca Bunch is like Hamlet. People discuss her choices and motives as if she was a real person. She makes terrible choices, treats people like shit without really meaning to, but Rachel Bloom still makes you care about her.

The second episode contained a scene that was incredibly painful to watch, when Rebecca drunkenly tried to make out with Josh's girlfriend Valencia on the dance floor. It was a trainwreck, but it ended with one of the smartest, funniest lines in the whole series so far. Nevertheless, you watch Rebecca with a sense of impending disaster. It's like a whole new kind of suspense.

There's no denying that I really like the things that I like. Always have. It works for me.

I felt the same way about Backstrom, although that show got bad ratings from critics as well as Nielsen, so I liked it, but not everybody else did, it's like Get A Life. But this show's critical approval rating is higher than anything I can recently remember, especially on network TV. Maybe the problem is CW: it always seemed like a de trop 5th in the "big 4" and for a show like this one, cutting down on the cussin' doesn't help. This would've been much more successful on Netflix or the others. Hell, if you told me 15 years ago that HBO would have emmy award winning shows on that would compete with NBC and ABC and the like I wouldn't have believed you, or 5 years ago with Netflix and the like, and I'm still amazed that amazon.com, a shopping website, made an award winning series. But that just means if the show's canned it'll pick up somewhere else while CW and network TV goes down the tubes.

I think she's good at what she does. Lots of you like Flight of the Concords or Garfunkel and Oates, and this is the same thing but with more of a Broadway Musical feeling.

Flight of the Conchords were pretty decent except for the songs (those weren't terrible or anything but they were consistently the worst parts of the show, which was pretty much filler between parts where Jermain Clement or Kristen Schaal were doing something), but the rest of that is a big nope from me.


The Mighty Boosh is pretty unwatchable, too.

In fact, the only "comedy about music" TV thing I've seen from the last two decades (at least) that's actually good is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82xnEtbtZBo

The laugh track almost wrecks it but I forgive them because it was the BBC's punishment for going to over budget on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

I really like early 1970s Scottish progressive folk and really dislike self-aware cutesiness, though.

I think a part of it with me is the twisting of Broadway tropes, since I worked for Broadway for a long, long time. So a Spring Awakening, Ave. Q or Book of Mormon is at least fresh instead of 42nd St. Wicked or anything Webber or Sondheim or Disney, which is usually the norm. I don't foresee myself getting a TV signal to watch this or torrenting it anytime soon, but I do like the clips I've seen and think they're well done and pretty funny for what they're going for.

And I've never actually seen an episode of Flight of the Condors but back when I had a car I'd make mixes and slip a FotC track on somewhere in the middle just to see if my ex was paying attention to MY music when we were driving because she usually hogged the CD player. Fuckin bitch.

I don't foresee myself getting a TV signal to watch this or torrenting it anytime soon, but I do like the clips I've seen and think they're well done and pretty funny for what they're going for.

>> Well, there are less rigorous options. There are four episodes streaming free on Hulu right here.

http://www.hulu.com/crazy-exgirlfriend

There's actually five episodes streaming on the CW site, but like all network sites, it's a bloated clusterfuck.

I bought the whole first season, including future episodes, from Google Play for 15 dollars. First time I've done this. They don't expire, no commercials, gorgeous hi-def, they stream from the cloud, and you can download them to the hard drive for watching offline. FINALLY, no disks, no tapes, no clutter.

It's the primitive courtship dance of the Libertarian neckbeard.

cocaine

It's funny because Penn swears that he's never done drugs or even drank a sip of alcohol in his entire life, but he always seems more coked out than most people I know who do coke when I see him in stuff.

never trust anyone who has never tried alcohol or drugs

Ham week.

Well, they are on the same network so that's kind of different than if I said that I would like to do that (which sure why not) because that's kinda workplace harassment 101

Oh never mind, didn't check the date of the video. This was years before her show on the CW got greenlighted, or even Penn and Teller's. Well.. that's kinda awkward then..

Because he doesn't seem to grasp that it's a joke. For reasons that I assume to be dick-related, he just seems to buy way too much into the premise. He thinks that she really wants to fuck Ray Bradbury, who was about 90 at the time, and could barely speak. That's stupid. He acknowledges in passing that it's funny, but he just keeps going on about how "real" she is, while she's dancing around in a Britney Spears costume. That's what she's wearing, by the way. The costumes and dance in e Fuck me, Ray Bradbury is a parody of Britney Spears' "Hit me Baby One more time."

Also holy shit I didn't realize the age difference. I guess there's no way to say this nicely but I thought Bloom was older and Jillette was younger. That's not to say that age matters and I'm not an ageist but this would come off as creepy as the horror stories I've heard from girls when I'm on Tinder or OKC dates of men twice their age just messaging "wanna fuck" and shit like that.

it's a reasonable question to ask whether it's a terrible thing for Rachel Bloom to sing a song about fucking Ray Bradbury. Reversing the difference in age and gender doesn't really make it all right. That needs to be said.

I read an interview with her just yesterday where she talks about her "Bernadette Peters Sex Tape" video, and she talks about how she loves Bernadette Peters, and she doesn't know if Bernadette Peters ever saw that. I hope she stops doing stuff like this, even though the Bernadette Peters Sex tape is really funny, even though she doesn't do a great Bernadette Peters.

In that same interview Rachel Bloom said "I have the tastes of a sixty year old gay man." I happen to know of one 57 year old bisexual man who found that quote endearing.