The monologue was okay but the interview just seemed awkward.
Either it was edited badly or some of the questions were just segued terribly.
I think Jim has just picked the most famous and available guests he knew. Not sure about Dana as a guest. Mike was a great choice though, he's just an interesting guy with the life he's had - although he sits like a shy teenage girl.
If I could make any changes, I'd drop Bailey Jay - what is she contributing at all? I think Jim's just trying to be the edgy guy.
I'd give Jim a desk and change the setting around - you can just see him holding his A4 pages with typed notes. It just looks extremely low-budget.
He kind of said at the start that it's a working progress though so it will probably get better.
Didn't they bash Scorch for wearing an all-black suit whilst sitting on an all-black couch and not having a desk?
It's easy to criticize him for this tendency, but when you take that away what's really left? I'm not calling him substance-less, but trannies and AIDs is his identity as a comedian.
If you have to give him some unique topical identity then yeah, that's it. But his real strength is his outrageously quick wit that has allowed him to absolutely kill over the years on O&A especially when the right comedians are in.
IMO, that's the problem with this show - he shouldn't be interviewing people like Tyson, he should bring in funny people he can riff with - Vos, Quinn, Florentine, etc. I don't want to just describe tough crowd but really I think everyone here would agree that Jim is better on his toes in a room with comedians than most comedians (including himself) are on stage. He has SO MUCH potential to be funny and interesting but it's just wasted on this pasted together talk show where he's subduing his comedy to interview guests he doesn't mesh that well with.
The problem isn't that he's trying to be the edgy guy, it's that he's put himself into a show where he HAS TO try to be SOME KIND OF GUY, when he's so much better off being natural. I don't blame Jim, he's said himself plenty of times so I don't need to re-iterate that anything successful he's been a part of fails (which is so fucking unfortunate). Maybe this Vice show is one of the few things left he was able to get passed. It's just so unfortunate that Jim is still trying to find something that will make him widely popular when he's such a fucking talented, funny person. And it sucks that people bash him when they don't think this show lives up to his potential.
I don't think it does either, but I thought it was funny and I fucking hope it's super successful for Jim's sake.
To be honest I didn't watch it all the way through because it was making me feel too awkward and uncomfortable. Some of the jokes were funny but the use of the O&A sound effects in the first sketch was very lame and a little too drawn out. I think Jim needs to make a complete break from the O&A show if the point of those sound effects was to remind people of it. If he's going to do his own show then it needs to be completely fresh and his own, not littered with stale O&A chachkis.
I want Jimmy to succeed, but the show wasn't good. He's very awkward. I didn't finish. I can't see anyone other than hardcore fans watching his show.
He needs to keep his head in one position. Look at Oprah. She doesn't move her head. From certain angles, Jimmy looks like he has Progeria. He needs to avoid showing Progeria face. Stop moving around and being so fidgetedy. Be still. Be deliberate.
The show is good. For those of you who don't like it there are two uncle Paul bits to come and he already committed to Chip in public. Chip needs to be more well known.
Also the sound is for the whole site. I watched his interview and the same thing happened.
I think those hipsters at Vice might actually tune in due to Bailey Jay. How dare you dislike the show that means you hate the transgender!?
OMG I have never seen Jim do stand up. That was so uncomfortable and awful. Self deprecating jokes didn't make it better. I couldn't last through the first couple of minutes
I actually really liked it was good and yeah it had some awkward moments but the awkward moments were cool because they were natural and made the show feel real.
I went to the second taping (the REAL Rick Ross). And It will be better than this tyson/white interview. I feel like we already heard a lot of Jim+Tyson/White before on OnA. This Rick Ross guy told his story, and it was something new for me, and the jokes Jim stuck in there in the middle of this fairly serious interview, were great. Watch ep. 2
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16 ChippyDontPlayThat 2014-07-23
5 minutes in, self-deprecation overload.
6 sink_tinkler 2014-07-23
Did you make it through or bail? I bailed.
1 astaticpunk 2014-07-23
Bailed. It's unwatchable. He's just not good in front of any type of crowd
13 DoubleGuns 2014-07-23
Watched this hoping for the best.
The monologue was okay but the interview just seemed awkward.
Either it was edited badly or some of the questions were just segued terribly.
I think Jim has just picked the most famous and available guests he knew. Not sure about Dana as a guest. Mike was a great choice though, he's just an interesting guy with the life he's had - although he sits like a shy teenage girl.
If I could make any changes, I'd drop Bailey Jay - what is she contributing at all? I think Jim's just trying to be the edgy guy.
I'd give Jim a desk and change the setting around - you can just see him holding his A4 pages with typed notes. It just looks extremely low-budget.
He kind of said at the start that it's a working progress though so it will probably get better.
Didn't they bash Scorch for wearing an all-black suit whilst sitting on an all-black couch and not having a desk?
5 Happy_ScrappyHeroPup 2014-07-23
It's easy to criticize him for this tendency, but when you take that away what's really left? I'm not calling him substance-less, but trannies and AIDs is his identity as a comedian.
0 Flamgirlant 2014-07-23
If you have to give him some unique topical identity then yeah, that's it. But his real strength is his outrageously quick wit that has allowed him to absolutely kill over the years on O&A especially when the right comedians are in.
IMO, that's the problem with this show - he shouldn't be interviewing people like Tyson, he should bring in funny people he can riff with - Vos, Quinn, Florentine, etc. I don't want to just describe tough crowd but really I think everyone here would agree that Jim is better on his toes in a room with comedians than most comedians (including himself) are on stage. He has SO MUCH potential to be funny and interesting but it's just wasted on this pasted together talk show where he's subduing his comedy to interview guests he doesn't mesh that well with.
The problem isn't that he's trying to be the edgy guy, it's that he's put himself into a show where he HAS TO try to be SOME KIND OF GUY, when he's so much better off being natural. I don't blame Jim, he's said himself plenty of times so I don't need to re-iterate that anything successful he's been a part of fails (which is so fucking unfortunate). Maybe this Vice show is one of the few things left he was able to get passed. It's just so unfortunate that Jim is still trying to find something that will make him widely popular when he's such a fucking talented, funny person. And it sucks that people bash him when they don't think this show lives up to his potential.
I don't think it does either, but I thought it was funny and I fucking hope it's super successful for Jim's sake.
10 Crigger540 2014-07-23
If he uses all his sexual deviant jokes in the first episode what will he do in later episodes?
3 [deleted] 2014-07-23
Rinse and repeat.
10 rumpumpumpum 2014-07-23
To be honest I didn't watch it all the way through because it was making me feel too awkward and uncomfortable. Some of the jokes were funny but the use of the O&A sound effects in the first sketch was very lame and a little too drawn out. I think Jim needs to make a complete break from the O&A show if the point of those sound effects was to remind people of it. If he's going to do his own show then it needs to be completely fresh and his own, not littered with stale O&A chachkis.
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1 Flamgirlant 2014-07-23
"Monologues" are just stand-up comedy routines in a different venue, how could you possibly dislike them universally?
If you didn't like Jim's here, that's fair. Personally I found a lot of it very funny.
8 MBartholomae1 2014-07-23
I really wanted this to be good. I'll watch the ones that come out, but I wasn't high on the first episode...
Poor Jimmy
7 janedoe2893 2014-07-23
I want Jimmy to succeed, but the show wasn't good. He's very awkward. I didn't finish. I can't see anyone other than hardcore fans watching his show.
He needs to keep his head in one position. Look at Oprah. She doesn't move her head. From certain angles, Jimmy looks like he has Progeria. He needs to avoid showing Progeria face. Stop moving around and being so fidgetedy. Be still. Be deliberate.
Camera work was a miscarriage.
2 BottleOfAon 2014-07-23
Weirdest show business advice, or in fact any kind of advice, I've ever heard.
6 captainpissclams 2014-07-23
SUCK MY FUCKIN TITS
5 HollandExpat 2014-07-23
I like it. Not bad for a first episode. I hope it improves. The audio needs to be fixed in the future.
4 talltree2011 2014-07-23
Audio is a bit weird about 10 minutes in. So many self-depreciating jokes. A noticeable lack of blinking though! Not a bad start so far.
4 CarlosDanger007 2014-07-23
One Step Too Far was hilarious.
4 jammiesoff 2014-07-23
The show is good. For those of you who don't like it there are two uncle Paul bits to come and he already committed to Chip in public. Chip needs to be more well known.
Also the sound is for the whole site. I watched his interview and the same thing happened.
I think those hipsters at Vice might actually tune in due to Bailey Jay. How dare you dislike the show that means you hate the transgender!?
3 Biohzd79 2014-07-23
VICE probably wont be taping more of these.
3 halareous 2014-07-23
Loved it.
3 MartyVanB 2014-07-23
OMG I have never seen Jim do stand up. That was so uncomfortable and awful. Self deprecating jokes didn't make it better. I couldn't last through the first couple of minutes
2 pfgposter 2014-07-23
Jimmy's intro is fantastic. He's getting a good response but he deserves even better.
By the way, wasn't Jimmy the one complaining about Scorch not having a desk on his talk show?
1 MartyVanB 2014-07-23
I watched the exact same intro. It was horrid.
2 pfgposter 2014-07-23
I liked his Jim Ross impression during the One Step Too Far segment.
2 majestik6 2014-07-23
Wow, I'm actually scared to watch this now.
If the hardcore Jim Norton fans are savaging the show, I can't even imagine what the hipster dbag Vice crowd will say.
3 [deleted] 2014-07-23
Don't let the armchair producers turn you off to it. It was great.
The VICE crowd will like it. The negative reactions here, and overanalyzing of everything is always overshadowed by reality.
2 Blurgette 2014-07-23
There are some laughs, but it is way too awkward and uncomfortable, and not in a good way.
Jim--we get it, you have low self-esteem and like trannies. MOVE ON!
He's a great radio personality, funnier on the air than maybe anyone ever--why isn't that enough?
2 UncPa57yrzyng 2014-07-23
I actually really liked it was good and yeah it had some awkward moments but the awkward moments were cool because they were natural and made the show feel real.
2 evan9eleven 2014-07-23
Just remember its basically a pilot. You have to give stuff like this room to grow.
2 carlooch 2014-07-23
I went to the second taping (the REAL Rick Ross). And It will be better than this tyson/white interview. I feel like we already heard a lot of Jim+Tyson/White before on OnA. This Rick Ross guy told his story, and it was something new for me, and the jokes Jim stuck in there in the middle of this fairly serious interview, were great. Watch ep. 2
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1 peedeearr 2014-07-23
Good show, but the shifting back and forth during the monologue was dizzying.
1 Gator1010 2014-07-23
Bailey gave me a boner
1 SergeantFartbox 2014-07-23
Bailey Jay adds absolutely nothing except a novelty that wears off in thirty seconds.
1 FJaxJones 2014-07-23
I enjoyed it but I wish he'd ease up on the self-deprecation. Holy shit.
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0 retromingent_cunt 2014-07-23
Well... that was pretty ugly
3 [deleted] 2014-07-23
Don't let the armchair producers turn you off to it. It was great.
The VICE crowd will like it. The negative reactions here, and overanalyzing of everything is always overshadowed by reality.