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April 19, 2007
Thank God You're Here review
Margaret Hicks reviews Thank God You're Here for Chicagoist and compares it with some other attempts to bring improv to TV.
Parts of it were painful to watch and parts of it – well – parts of it weren’t so bad. We thought Chelsea Handler was okay, taking the easy way out sometimes with her poop jokes. Shannon Elizabeth predictably went straight for the sex, but Tom Green’s clumsy plumber and George Takei’s “neck doctor” were actually pretty funny. There’s no denying that the show would be a thousand times more enjoyable if the core cast (including Nyima Funk and Maribeth Monroe from Second City) improvised with the guests instead of trying to hit certain beats and spit out fabricated lines.
Posted by Fuzzy at April 19, 2007 5:21 PM