Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2004 I've never been a loyal VH1 viewer or anything, but I'd flip past there while channel surfing and nothing else was on. But it's way too much like MTV now, they've took off almost all of the music. But instead of crappy game and dating shows it's just bad comedy. A2Z, I love the 90s, best week every, blah blah blah...it's just the same bad comedians telling the same jokes, and all of them have the exact same sense of humor. It must honestly take nothing to get the "comedian" tag under your name on that channel. It's just an unwatchable station now...not like it was much better to begin with. Another case of "this works...now let's do it over and over and over..." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ian. Report post Posted August 18, 2004 I watched a2z one time. I wanted the thirty minutes of my life back, but I knew I wouldn't have done anything with them anyway. But yeah, the channel has almost always been second rate, nothing new. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy no nose 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2004 I never heard of that A-Z show but I decided to watch today since Guns N Roses were on. I made it all the way to E. There's this team of 2 guys who try to be funny together, I guess it has to be because they were terrible on their own, but I can't imagine how they could be worse than they are as a team. They were trying to act everything out and it was just horrible. The only good thing on VH1 is Behind the Music. The first set of I Love the 80s episodes was alright but they've killed that idea. I saw a movie on there about Def Leppard one night last week at like 2 AM and it was pretty funny. Problem was I don't think it was supposed to be. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2004 VH1 basically copied E! and shows nothing but clip comedy programs or Robin Leetch doing the most expensive cribs show. Rapper Lil Wayne pays for a personal assistent to carry his bling bling at a whopping $10,000 a week. Would you believe it cost the blue eye soul man Justin Timbalake $5000 just to cheap? When a vintage beer T-shirt from contour designer Bob Jimpowien cost $230 and ultra tight blue jeans by Rodeo Drives very own Tomas Vejeiors cost a whopping $1000 and the trucker hat by Jim Frank Jojo cost an insanely $340 and the classic Majic Johason inspired converse kicks in yellow & purple cost $2500. [/robin leetch voice] Yeah I can see why you don't like the network. It needs more behind the music and top 100 cheesy hair metal videos and more KISS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Salacious Crumb Report post Posted August 18, 2004 I would really like the "I Love" shows if Michael Ian Black and Hal Sparks weren't all over them. You'd think probability would state that at some point they'd have to say something funny but they never do. Hell, Black doesn't even get his facts straight most of the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2004 Black was great during the "I Love the 80s," but he tried WAY to hard for "I Love the 90s." I remember when VH1 was the "adult" music channel and MTV was the younger audience. Whatever happened to that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2004 Im glad they still have Insomniac Music Theatre on when I get up at 4am now. It used to put me to sleep, now it gets me awake.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2004 Black was great during the "I Love the 80s," but he tried WAY to hard for "I Love the 90s." I remember when VH1 was the "adult" music channel and MTV was the younger audience. Whatever happened to that? People over 30 don't watch music videos featuring Sheryl Crow and would prefer to watch gossip or nostaglia shows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I like the I Love series and Best Week Ever, so I can't agree. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I loved I Love The 80s. I couldn't feel I Love The 70s. I enjoyed I Love The 80s Strikes Back. I was depressed by I Love The 90s. I loathed Best Week Ever. I hated Celebrity A-Z. They had a good thing and overexposed it. Hal Sparks, I like, MIB, that guy cna fuck off and die. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star Ocean 3 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Stop watching television. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob_barron 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Best Week Ever for the most part is very very funny and one of my favourite shows to watch when I'm home on Friday. Doug Benson is a God to me- many of his quips are too funny. Paul Scheer also brings the greatness. The Modern Humourists and Racheal Harris (Who I call not Tina Fey) aren't that good but any episode that's heavy on Benson or Scheer is goodness. A-Z is okay. Rob Huebel and Rob Riggle are awesome (Even though they're much funnier at the UCB Theatre) It bugs me how they sometims will just skip letters though Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I really don't watch much TV at all. I'll watch baseball and Simpsons and the news and that's it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Best Week Ever for the most part is very very funny and one of my favourite shows to watch when I'm home on Friday. Doug Benson is a God to me- many of his quips are too funny. Paul Scheer also brings the greatness. The Modern Humourists and Racheal Harris (Who I call not Tina Fey) aren't that good but any episode that's heavy on Benson or Scheer is goodness. A-Z is okay. Rob Huebel and Rob Riggle are awesome (Even though they're much funnier at the UCB Theatre) It bugs me how they sometims will just skip letters though Maroon 5 brought the goodness in I love the 90s. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beast 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I love all of the clip shows they do now. Like Bob said, the two Rob's make A2Z unmissable for me, and Best Week Ever is a great way to catch up on the news and current events. Also, I guess I'm in the minority, but Michael Ian Black is my favorite guy in the the I Love The series, followed by Rich Eisen, and some guy named Kevin from Alias. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fökai 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I'm certain that Best Week Ever was unjustly lumped in with the other "let's rip on everything pop-culture" VH1 programs. Guys, for this show, they use a new combination of actors, comedians (no MIB, no Hal Sparks) and contributors for "I Love The 80's/90's" that were mis-used (for one, Chris Jericho). The entire twenty-two minutes of each episode are just loaded with great gimmick segments (Sizzler, Upgrade/Downgrade, Five Good Reasons...) and hilarious running gags (for those who regularly watch, the White Chicks joke). Best Week Ever for the most part is very very funny and one of my favourite shows to watch when I'm home on Friday. Doug Benson is a God to me- many of his quips are too funny. Paul Scheer also brings the greatness. Are either of those guys you mentioned a bald guy with a gap-tooth? I don't know that man's name, but he brings the show up to a whole new level of hilarity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SetsunaMeioh Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I like the I Love series and Best Week Ever, so I can't agree. My sentiments exactly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Also, I guess I'm in the minority, but Michael Ian Black is my favorite guy in the the I Love The series, followed by Rich Eisen, and some guy named Kevin from Alias. Michael Ian Black wouldn't be so bad except the whole "I talk with no emotion in my voice whatsoever...and oh by the way I'm Jewish" gets really old. The only time I really found him laugh-out-loud hilarious was when he snapped about being the "I Love The 80s Guy" and was like "Oh no I don't even have a career anymore. I just sit here and talk to you fuckers." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Michael Ian Black wouldn't be so bad except the whole "I talk with no emotion in my voice whatsoever...and oh by the way I'm Jewish" gets really old. The only time I really found him laugh-out-loud hilarious was when he snapped about being the "I Love The 80s Guy" and was like "Oh no I don't even have a career anymore. I just sit here and talk to you fuckers." Did he have a career before? Personally, I think that even Dat Phan is funnier than this guy... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Best Week Ever isn't bad ... most of their 'celebrities' make me laugh, so it's a show that I'll watch if I happen to catch an airing. A2Z, on the other hand, is unwatchable. There's not a single person that I've seen on that show that make me laugh. I don't know their names, but the two guys that appear to be a comedy 'tandem' are brutally unfunny. (How people on this board say that they're funny is inconceivable to me.) This show reminds me of the Blender Magazine "50 Worst Songs of all Time" in that I've never heard of any of the people that they hired to be funny on the show. And these no-names aren't funny. If you can't afford to get the B & C list celebrities that appear on things like "I love the (fill in the decade)" then don't bother with the show. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob_barron 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Are either of those guys you mentioned a bald guy with a gap-tooth? I don't know that man's name, but he brings the show up to a whole new level of hilarity. Yes- Paul's the bald man with the gap tooth. He's awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 This show reminds me of the Blender Magazine "50 Worst Songs of all Time" in that I've never heard of any of the people that they hired to be funny on the show. And these no-names aren't funny. It wasn't the 50 worst songs ever - it was the 50 most awesomely bad songs ever, and even that is misleading. If they meant that "yeah it's a bad song, but we love it anyways" then Eddie Murphy doesn't deserve to be there, and "We Are The World" should've made the list. If they meant "it's a bad song, period", then Phillip Michael Thomas has been robbed. Can't have Crockett without Tubbs... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King Kamala 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I like Best Week Ever, it ranges from mediocre to almost the level of I Love the 80's. None of the panelists actively annoy me and most of them are fairly decent. Now A2Z on the other hand makes me yearn for the days of VH1 ILL-ustrated. No one is funny on that show and a good 2/3rds of the panelists are so unfunny that I want throw my TV out the window. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notJames 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 The only good thing that ever came out of I Love the 90s was when Anthrax's Scott Ian defended Hanson when everyone else took the easy way out. To paraphrase, he said, "They write their own songs, and play their own instruments. Good for them." I'll take that over overproduced untalented cookie-cutter teen "icons" any fuckin' day of the week. The rest of the network eats a bag of soggy dicks. Damn, I wish I could get Fuse. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King Kamala 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 I don't know where you're hearing how good Fuse is, but Fuse isn't really all it's cracked up to be. Sure it's 24/7 music (Well music related at least), but the music videos are just as bad as the dreck MTV shows from time to time. I prefer old school MTV2 from three or four years back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest PlatinumBoy Report post Posted August 19, 2004 The only good thing that ever came out of I Love the 90s was when Anthrax's Scott Ian defended Hanson when everyone else took the easy way out. To paraphrase, he said, "They write their own songs, and play their own instruments. Good for them." I'll take that over overproduced untalented cookie-cutter teen "icons" any fuckin' day of the week. The rest of the network eats a bag of soggy dicks. Damn, I wish I could get Fuse. I also liked when Scott Ian said Mortal Kombat was the call of the nerds and then to show that really fat black guy just screaming Mortal Kombat and going off about how great it was. But to get to A2Z--the show SUCKS. The GNR one was just pathetic--how can you skip J for GNR when J starts JACK DANIELS. Plus the blonde girl on it was just HORRIBLY not funny. Behind the music is good still, but anything Blender related sucks. I wish VH1 would stop ALL Blender stuff as it just encourages Blender to make even more HORRIBLE lists. At least they don't hook up with Rolling Stone, because if I had to see a special on the god awful top 100 guitarists list that Stone made, I'd shoot my TV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Could be worst. They could hook up with SPIN! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest wrestlingbs Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Agree about this one. VH1 found a good idea with I Love The 80's and buried it by doing the same thing over and over. And let's not even get into all the best/worst/top 50 list shows they have. What's the difference between Music's Most Shocking Moments and Music's Most Outragous Moments? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jobber of the Week 0 Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Screw you, VH1, for keeping Mo Rocca on television. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smell the ratings!!! Report post Posted August 19, 2004 Best Week Ever is a show of the highest quality. This is non-negotiable. but everything else is heinous. And for the record Fuse is also heinous, but they at least show music on a regular basis. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
