Just wondering if you saw that, and got the same take as I did.
I actually didn't see that, no. I saw two episodes back to back where he was trying to do his street thing and people kept coming up and saying stuff like "hey, Tom, where's Drew?" or something like that. I just kinda realized not that he had become a wuss or anything like that, but just that he had become too big for his show to work.
There was one funny bit I remember where he'd call random numbers out of a Russian phone book and prank call people, even though they weren't speaking english. It's hard to explain, and it was far from his best work, but it was pretty good.
I think the funniest thing he ever did on the show was the interview with his parents where he asked his mom what her favorite sexual position and act was, then tried to get his dad to admit he beats his mom. The best was the next morning when he put that statue of his Dad beating his mom and his dad and mom having sex on their front lawn. His Dad was so pissed.
I have 2 tapes of the best of the show he did in Canada, it's a lot of the same stuff MTV showed, but there were a few bits that were too gross for MTV, such as him going into a public toilet and playing with a turd that's in there. It wasn't really that funny, just gross.
Nope, that's exactly how I see it. And I hate it, I think it fails miserably.
That's cool. I'm certainly in the minority on this one. I dunno, I just like it for some reason, I like my comedy to either be really subtle or ridiculously over-the-top.
So your saying if they left it the way Tom wrote it it would have been better?
Mmmmmm, I'm not sure that I want to say that. It would've been less shocking for the sake of shock, and more weird, that's for sure. But, like I said, the editing and pacing of the movie is pretty horrible and that's the director's fault, and since Tom directed it, I couldn't see him pulling off any better than what was there.
