Published on June 11th, 2010 | by Sharilyn Johnson
0Screw summer: there’s tv to watch
For those of you in the US of A, you’re a lucky bunch of couch potatoes.
Paul F. Tompkins has his Comedy Central special, You Should Have Told Me, premiering Friday at 11pm on Comedy Central. If I’m lucky, Canada’s Comedy Network will pick this up an air it sometime in the next 3 years.
The stellar-by-all-accounts documentary I Am Comic airs on Showtime Friday at 11pm as well (but Paul would probably appreciate it if you watched it on demand starting Saturday). I’ll have to get the dvd.
And on Saturday night the legendary Robert Klein premieres his new HBO special, Unfair and Unbalanced, at 10pm on – obviously – HBO. The publicity team sent me a clip, which I can’t view, embed, or even link to (seriously) because it’s blocked from those of us outside of the US. Let’s pretend it’s a clever marketing ploy to make it seem uber-exclusive and pique your interest.
As for us here in Canada. we get to watch… um… well whatever, I don’t like tv anyway. I’m gonna go play outside. (Oooh, ice cream truck!!)
About the Author
Sharilyn Johnson is the author of the book Bears & Balls: The Colbert Report A-Z. Called "one of the city’s most discriminating comedy critics” by NOW Magazine, Sharilyn has been covering comedy for longer than she cares to admit. She served as the comedy reporter for Winnipeg's Uptown Magazine for five years, and was the host of the radio show Laugh Tracks for three seasons. Her work has also appeared in the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, The Apiary, and on CBC Radio's national comedy programs LOL and Definitely Not the Opera.
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