Two New Comedies

Shit My Dad Says

The fall season is upon us and with that a lot of new and returning shows. I will write about two of the new comedies: Shit My Dad Says and Outsourced.

First up is Shit My Dad Says, a sitcom based on a Twitter account I've been told, I have not read it myself since I try to stay as far away from Twitter as possible.

It stars William Shatner and a bunch of people I have seen in other sitcoms of varying quality (by varying quality I mean terrible).

There isn't really much to say about it, it's contrived and poorly written, all of the actors are flat except Shatner and even he is struggling to get somewhere with the awful dialog. It does manage to be somewhat funny a few times, but there are too many cringe worthy and obvious jokes to make it overall enjoyable. This show also illustrates one of my pet peeves about sitcoms in general, and that is that the actors often talk slightly louder than they should, this irritates me to no end.

I am going to give it one or two more episodes to see where it goes, it did get a bit better at the end so it might manage to make itself fun to watch, we will see.

Outsourced

Outsourced is an NBC comedy show about an american who moves to India to manage a call center. It is based on a 2006 movie with the same name that I have not seen. The main source of alleged hilarity comes from the cultural differences of the American guy and his novelty products and the Indian employees who are not that versed in the American culture.

I did not get the feeling while watching this show that it really contributes anything new or clever. It is very predictable in its attempts to be funny, with show stoppers like "Indian food gives you diarrhea" or "Indian guy has name that sounds funny in English". It's not that I am outraged about culturally insensitive humor, but I would prefer if it was funny!

To sum up, these new shows aren't very interesting. They're not offensively bad in any way, just rather bland.