Secrets of the City

ouch.

It was an odd review… as it talked an awful lot about what the show WASN’T. Is the show any good or not?

whatever, its the travel channel, it’s not ITN or PBS.

He has to have a high TVQ, he is shot as basically a caricature of himself. I’ve not seen more coy, tongue-in-cheek, mugg for the camera style in a long while. All it’s missing is a rimshot here and there.

Zimmerns show doesn’t try to be bad ass like bourdain it fits somewhere between bourdain and that schmaltzy samantha ladys, I think show will do just fine.

I wasn’t impressed with his old show so I guess I’m not missing much not seeing his new show.

Bourdain does it better with more authenticity.

The thing is, the Travel Channel has plenty of shows/specials with truly bizarre stuff from all over the world. Why didn’t they just cull their archives for some of that stuff and then send Zimmern in for an update?

Better idea: why don’t they just follow Zimmern around while he lives his life. I have a feeling it’ll be more bizarre than anything they try to fabricate on this show.

Unrelated: I’m performing in semis tonight in the funniest person in the TC contest and I’m unsure of a bit that’s 20% of my routine. So, I’m wondering if y’all can help me.

Basically, just answer the following questions. 1. Do you know who Tyler Perry is w/o asking anyone/looking him up? 2. Do you know who “Madea” is in relation to Tyler Perry. 3. Age/gender/race.

Also, back on topic, there should be a SuperFriends-type special with Zimmern/Bourdain/Samantha Brown/Peter Greenfield/Mike Rowe/The Mythbusters team/The guy from Discovery Science’s “Really Big Things” and voiced by the guy from “How It’s Made”. It’d be Road Rules. They all work for the same parent company so… Actually, “How It’s Made” is purchased from Canada but still…
I’d Tivo it.

No/No.

Age? You can give a range if you d/n want to say.

1. Yes.
2. If Madea is a character he plays, then yes.
3. Yes, I know his gender, race and approx. age.

On topic: I’m not into those bizarre-o food shows. I get no joy out of being grossed out.

Oh MY age, etc? I’m a 62 year old bloated white male in a filthy tank top.

Like everyone else on the internet.

I’m a dog, but nobody knows it.

“Like everyone else on the internet.”

LMAO. nice Jane.

1. yes. 2. yes 3. Our age/race/gender or Tyler Perry’s?

1. Do you know who Tyler Perry is w/o asking anyone/looking him up? 2. Do you know who “Madea” is in relation to Tyler Perry. 3. Age/gender/race.

Yes to all. What I don’t know is what the hell so many black women see to like in his movies.

But then again, I’m a dog.

oh mine. twenties/female/white

Tyler who? Medea? Nope and nope. And, YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

And good luck Bixby!

51/male/honkie honkie!*

*an old Richard Pryor SNL joke.

justpbob, way to tell me your age and whatnot but not actually answer any of the questions. regardless, I actually emailed you the part of the routine in question, so just hit me back there.

thanks to the rest of y’all.

Re: Tyler Perry. All I know is that he has produced a lot of TV and movie material, all of which appear to be prefaced with “Tyler Perry’s [THE ACTUAL NAME OF SHOW GOES HERE].”

My info:

Age: Old enough to know better; young enough to do it;

Gender: Both an X and a Y;

Race: No, I like being a spectator, but thanks for asking.

Sure I did, bix. “Yes to all” means yes, I know the Cousin, and yes, I know about his dressing up like an old woman thang, too.

But who am I to judge?

1. Yes.

2. Meowrr?

3. Cant talk mus wash fase now

1.yes
2. not really, his eddie murphy/martinlawrence fat person/moneymakingdevice alter ego.
3. 31/M/White

Observation: not a whole lot of ppl actually put their real info down.. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING PPL?! lol

Bix knows I’m old and white and male.

@DouglasG: If you’re old, what does that make me?

@DouglasG: If you’re old, what does that make me?

And Bix, you know my answers to the A/G/R questions, but I will say that I’m not an old white guy … yet!

Bix and I are offline buddies so she can confirm I’m a bloated skeezy white guy in a filthy tank top. I’m also drunk.

Jane has also been hexed from what I recall.

Well, people seemed to have got the Tyler Perry jokes. So, yay!

Thanks guys.

If you call bones and feathers of a bluejay in my yard a hex, yeah, I’ve been hexed. Not so bad, once you get used to it.

Bixby rules at comedy.

Sadly, I had to work this evening.

Glad to hear Bixby rocked the house!

Butt out, New York Times!

And if Samantha Brown ain’t on it, I don’t watch it.

Bix not only rocked the house, she won. She was awesome.

Big Congrats, B.

I won my night. I didn’t “WIN”. But thanks!

I want to see a reality show ala Bizarre Foods, but where the host goes around the world doing drugs with the locals. Call it Wasted World.

Potential Episodes:

Qat in Mogadishu, ganja in Jamaica, Space Cakes in Amsterdam, Peyote on the res in AZ, Cocaine in Colombia, Opium in Baalbek, meth and/or inhalants in suburban anywhere, Scotch in Scotland, ecstacy in Ibiza, beer in Munich, those crushed plants they blow up your nose in the Amazon Rain Forest.

I imagine I can get at least 2 seasons worth of material out of this. Not sure which network would dare carry it (lifetime?), but it would pwn the interwebs.

The host would have to be an affable American with a high drug tolerance. Like a pre-rehab Robert Downey Jr. Or maybe Steve Marsh. The audition tapes alone would be a goldmine of unintended comedy.

I think if you took the cut scenes from globe trekker, no reservations and dave attell you could put this show together with out any additional shooting.

While I think grote’s idea with Marsh is pretty great. I’m actually hoping that Marsh can step into the shows of the Late (career-wise) Great Tara Reid and be the new host of the revamped “Wild on!” On E!

I would do it, but it would be a bitch just to get insured and, perversely, it would jeopardize my street cred with the lucrative local MILF market.

And some east coast asshole would still end up hating on my blandly superior smile.

You watch: AZ is gonna “pwn” Bourdain. “Authenticity” is for people who don’t watch TV.