A lot of people saw and commented – via blog or IM/e-mail – on my post last week regarding the cancellation of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. If you haven’t read it, please do so and save us all some time this post around. The nutshell: brilliant, topical, bi-partisan, current event debate show featuring the finest stand-up comics working today which is being canceled on November 4th.
I was lucky enough to get a ticket to the final taping and will be traveling down from Boston with Brukkake on a little daytrip, but that’s a small comfort. An associate of frequent Tough Crowd guest Jim Norton and the related website CringeHumor.net, was one of the people who found my article on Google and contacted me. Yesterday he IM’d me again to let me know about a new site which I wanted to pass along to anyone who cares. And judging from my server logs, a surprising number of you do.
The main goal of SaveToughCrowd.com is to get fans to email decision makers at Comedy Central and let them know just how many people truly love and support the show. The email addresses provided include Doug Herzog: President & CEO, Marc Leonard: Vice President of Program & Promotions Scheduling, Debbie Beiter: Vice President of Production & On-Air Promotions and Peter Risafi: Senior Vice President of On Air Promotion & Off Air Creative. Please visit the site and send a message of your own. I have.
Tough Crowd is being canceled because it loses too much of the audience which watches the show preceding it: the formerly-hilarious-and-currently-partisan-but-always-reprehensible Daily Show with it’s host Jon Stewart (who isn’t fit to sniff Tucker Carlson’s bicycle seat). The official show-biz term is ‘hemorrhaging’. But in this case I’ll settle for ‘catering to lefty college students’. The underlying argument is that the show never got a fair shot, with 98% of all Comedy Central’s marketing thrown behind Crank Yankers, Wanda Does It, Chapelle’s Show and Blue Collar Comedy Hour. And, as a frequent watcher of the channel, I firmly agree. So please do your part.
But if you’re a big fan of Larry the Cable Guy – you’ve got absolutely nothing to worry about.
This is truly a travesty. Great job on those articles and I’m glad they’re getting traffic. Maybe Colin himself will get to see them one day.
I live in hope that that’s exactly what happens. I got Jim Norton’s IM name off a guy and I’m a bit nervous but will probably at least send him both of the links.
Tough Crowd sucks, that’s why it’s getting cancelled. No one who comes to the show knows anything about politics, and they all just end up repeating the same hacky bullshit you can get from talk radio.
The world isn’t about Left and Right, and Colin hasn’t figured that out yet. He’s how old?
What’s the world all about then, Confucious? Your post was pedestrian and about as helpful as a punch in the balls. Try again.