Tonight at 11p on Showtime David Steinberg interviews some of the best comedians of our lifetime and our parents lifetimes too; and we will get to know how they got their start and what makes them so great on Inside Comedy.
Each of the episodes will feature one to three comedians just shooting the breeze with Steinberg and in their conversation they will be taking us inside their comedy. It is a rare look on how the minds of these comedic geniuses work and it is something you will want to hear them share with you.
With marquee names (in order of appearance) like Don Rickles, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Steve Carell, Janes Lynch, Billy Crystal, Brad Garrett, Martin Short, Larry David, Garry Shandling, Sarah Silverman, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Tim Conway, Ellen DeGeneres (her brother Vance produces it), Kathy Griffin, Steven Wright, Robin Williams and Johnathan Winters, there is someone for everyone to enjoy and that is exactly what you will do. I have seen six of the episodes and no matter who the subject is, I sit mesmerized by their tales. One of my favorite revelations from the series is that Larry David told Steinberg that he used to be a happy man, until something that happened to him and changed into him to the man that he is today. I am not going to tell you what it is because you have to watch to find out.
It isn’t only them sharing with us these great stories, there are rarely seen clips also in the half hour show and they describe what made these moments so special. For example Don Rickles roasting President Ronald Reagan at his inauguration.
I cannot praise this look into Inside Comedy enough because it is great to see people that are always on be real for a half hour in a one-on-one sit down interview. You will be as enthralled as I was with the show, so make sure to watch it on Showtime tonight and every Thursday at 11p.
Showtime is all new tonight starting at 9p with Shameless followed by House of Lies and ending the night with Californication. Shameless is back and those Gallaghers are still as messed up as they were last season. Frank learns if you say to someone at a bar that you bet them do something for $10,000, you better be prepared to pay up. When he doesn’t have the money the collector takes something that will change the Gallaghers forever. So tune in for one the most dysfunctional family on television.
Then at 10p House of Lies starring Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell manages to be the perfect fit with Shameless and Californication. Cheadle plays Marty Kaan who leads a group of employees who go to companies and reorganize them so that they will make more money. Kaan lives with his father and son who wants to be his daughter. His ex-wife is a competitor and she is also an addict who is too messed up to care for their child. Bell plays Jeannie Van Der Hooven a woman who wants Kaan’s job and will do anything to get it. They are an unorthodox group and together they make a workable comedy to enjoy on Sunday night’s.
The best is saved for last because David Duchovny is back as Hank Moody in Californication. The show takes place a few years after last season. Moody is living in NYC and having women problems as always. He is called back to LA where Karen is married to Mr Mangina, Becca is dating a mini-Hank, Marcy is married to the producer with the big d!ck and Charlie is still Charlie. On the way back to LA, Hank meets a beautiful woman that he totally hits it off with but their relationship ends when they leave the airport…or so he thinks. Charlie got Hank a job writing a sceenplay for a 50 Cent like rapper played by RZA who is dating that woman he met on the plane. Now back to RZA he slays it as the gangsta Apocalypse Samurai. He adds a dynamic to the show that has never been done as well before. He is the ying to Moody’s yang. Californication is having its best season and you don’t want to miss a single second of it.
The cast Shameless got together and recorded a Christmas Carol to promote the return of their family drama on Showtime starting January 8th at 9p.
I sincerely think that is the best new Christmas song since Do They Know It’s Christmas. Seriously I can’t stop singing it, so I guess you can say that Showtime’s evil plan worked on me because I am even more excited for the show than I was before I watched them bring some Christmas cheer into my life!
Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer…
Tonight at 9p the Dexter we know, love and fear is back. He is going to his high school reunion in the season premiere on Showtime, and not everyone in his class will make it to their 30th reunion. In the next few episodes Dexter will be back to his killing ways and he will meet the older version of him and no one likes to see what they will become. After watching the first three episodes of the season, I think this is the best one yet. There is just something different about this season, I am not sure what it is but it works!
Eight years ago Nicholas Brody went missing Iraq and tonight on Showtime at 10p he returns to the Homeland as a hero to his family and his country. But not everyone thinks he is a hero, CIA agent Carrie Mathison thinks he has been turned and she will do anything to prove that he is now Al Qaeda even though no one believes her. Will she be able to prove that he is not the same man he was when he was captured nearly a decade ago? Can Brody adjust to being home again? Is it is homeland? How will his wife (Morena Baccarin) and their kids adjust to having him back? Tune into this spy thriller that shows nothing is it as it appears to be.
The new television season is upon us and that means that last season’s shows are coming out on DVD now even the ones on cable. With that we get to see the actors’ mistakes throughout the season and sometimes we get to see the show in a whole new light. Case in point Showtime’s The Borgais where we get the see the cast of the beautiful period drama have some fun screwing up in our time and theirs. Even when they make a stupid flub, their costumes and their accents make it seem like its a sophisticated error.
