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FUNNY
OR DIE PRESENTS
Adapting Will Ferrell & Adam McKay’s comedy
website to HBO (taking a dollop of inspiration from SCTV),
FODP loses democratic interactivity, but wisely
keeps the format loose and the skits short and uncensored with mixed
(Eh: Designated
Driver; Hilarious: Space
Baby and Drunk
History) results. The retro graphics are terrific.
CA$H
CAB
This smart, funny and engaging game show is not only fun to watch,
but once you’re hooked, the real-life game begins of scouring
Manhattan for the Sienna with 7N78 tags, hoping for a chance to
show smart-aleck host Ben
Bailey how much you know (as my friend Therese did).
Juliana
Hatfield, PEACE
AND LOVE
I love me some Juliana Hatfield when she’s full of piss and
vinegar. But this acoustic auteur-slab (done in her apartment) is
so painfully overwrought with narcissism, heartbreak and longing
(including an ode to Evan Dando!) it ends up evoking a teenager’s
diary. Terrible design adds to a disappointing misstep.
THE
COMPLETE PEANUTS 1967 TO 1968 by Charles M. Schulz
The second of Schulz’ five decades of PEANUTS
winds down with the emphasis continuing to shift from Charlie Brown
to Snoopy, the gang getting ethnic with the controversial (really)
introduction of Franklin
(the Hispanic José didn’t last) and an awful lot of
sports gags. Some pretty genius goop still inspires.
FROM
THE ASHES by Bob
Fingerman
Full disclosure: Not only am I pals with the mighty Fingerman, but
my girlfriend Lysa and I are characters in this collected edition
of Bob’s “speculative memoir,” making objectivity
tough! But it’s no lie to say that for leftie punk misanthropes,
this post-apocalyptic fantasy is funny, cathartic and even touching!
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