I don't think I'm verbalising what I'm thinking here properly but whatever! I'm really looking forward to this. I'm sure through the situations he could, but I do hope he's not merely a slave and surrogate to allow the premise, as opposed to actually bringing the funny himself as a character as well as the situations. But Andy Daly does have a huge range with his character work, so I'd love opportunities for him to show that off in this character. Miles Barlow was a fairly mild-mannered person who did some crazy things and went off the tracks, but honestly was fairly forgettable as a character. My only concern is that Andy Daly often seems to get stuck playing a bit more of a straight-man outside of CBB. It's a fine balancing act and if he can take that to this program, it could be something really special. That assertion may be down partly to the obvious joy you hear in his voice when he's going on a horrific tangent on CBB - it's impossible to believe he means anything cruel or sinister with it as his tone portrays such joy and silliness whilst his words paint gruesome pictures. Even if they get dark with this version, Daly has shown a great knack for finding the perfect point between dark and absurd and he just sits there mining great material. It still had some great ideas and I'm very faithful that Daly and his team can take that source and come up with some really good stuff. I felt it got a bit caught up in trying to be dark most of the time without having strong enough comedy, satire or pathos behind it to make it work. I liked the original but agree that it didn't reach the heights it's premise perhaps allowed. Quote from: Moribunderast on January 06, 2014, 01:31:11 PM This could be great and a really unique thing. Those are two really solid improvisers and comedians there at the helm. I've just noticed he's got an album of all his characters, here, which I'm about to buy, which has all of his in-character appearances at Comedy Death Ray live shows at the UCB.Īnd according to IMDB, he's joined in all the episodes by the character's wife, played by Jessica St Clair, who is also a hilarious comic performer on Comedy Bang Bang, and also BFF, which no-one watched and is an absolute bitch to find. So I'm really glad it's getting another shot, since it is such a unique premise that can go absolutely anywhere.Īndy Daly has progressively become one of my favourite comedy people over the last year or so due to his work on Comedy Bang Bang. The original had it's moments and I found the premise hugely clever, but it never felt as good as it could have been. It's generally gets very bleak and dark, and was primarily scripted if I remember correctly.Ĭomedy Central has taken this and remade it, and Andy Daly's written for it and is playing the protagonist, now called "Forrest MacNeil". Except instead of movies or books, he reviews experiences. The show is a Review show, similar to Siskel and Ebert at the Movies and such. I've been really looking forward to this for a long time now, and I only just found out that it's coming out next month, February 27th.Ī remake of a cult Australian comedy show, "Review with Myles Barlow".
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