Jimmy is a day late and a dollar short with everything. He is obsessed with talk shows and situations where he gets to be the host, but he is an awful host and doesn't have the charisma to lead a show. That and he said the shitty production value was on purpose and that as what he was going for, which is a terrible concept. He probably had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted and he chose the most uninteresting route.
Intentionally having shitty production value is an odd choice since he was a big part of Lucky Louie, which was partly sunk by Louis' odd choice to intentionally have shitty old fashioned production value.
I wouldn't say he's always a day late and a dollar short because he did make a choice many other comics wouldn't have early in their careers to star on a radio show. That was a brilliant career move that has really benefited him financially. But he lacks the same instincts in television. Really all he needs to do is look at his radio career to see what would work best for him on a television talk show. He should prop someone else up as the frontman host while he's really the star of the show as the sidekick. Like a band in which the lead singer is disposable and the guitarist is the star.
You raise a good point with Lucky Louie, and it got me thinking about how nostalgia doesn't sell like that. Both those shows were throwbacks to when they were younger, the shows they watched. They wanted to recpture that. Problem is, nobody identifies with it right now. Nobody is watching public access like that anymore, the new teenage version of that is these YouTube personalities who talk into the camera from their rooms. That's the indie, DIY thing now.
So imagine if in a few years, after we move onto the next format or the next thing, someone comes in and says "I wanna do a show like back in my day, where I sit in my room and talk into a phone and just give my opinion on things." Sounds like shit, doesn't it? Just like "I'm gonna do a show on acheap, dark set and just try to figure it out." The only ones to pull it off were Tim and Eric, but they own that style now.
I was into Louie CK before I even discovered the show, and I remember when "Lucky Louie" came out, I was 19 and hyped it up and....yeah I guess we were stoned but it was weird vibe, just this "All In The Family" stuff. Then I got worried about the FX show but holy shit I was wrong about that. Say what you will but at least it utilizes Louie's strengths instead of him being a smarter Homer Simpson.
I think Jimmy will have more success in the future, he just needs the right outlet.
As soon as he awkwardly introduced Bailey Jay as the "Show Girl" I knew it was going to be a disaster. We get it Jim, you like Trannies, maybe try not leading with that in the future.
last I remember they told him they might bring it back later...and it basically seems they are not bringing back. they were like "don't call us we'll call you"
They were taking a while to get a deal together for him. In the meantime he was offered a pilot from a TV Network for something similar, so he's doing that instead.
30 comments
50 PanzerSmanzer 2015-08-20
Jimmy blinked 782 times and just like that, it was gone.
2 PacinosWig 2015-08-20
Poof
28 BoardroomBimmy 2015-08-20
Oddly enough a show hosted by Blinks Nocharismaton and a gross transexual man didn't click with 99 percent of America.
7 Anton_Lemieux 2015-08-20
Say what you want about the human amoeba but leave my transsexual fantasies alone.
6 Themymic 2015-08-20
I wholeheartedly agree sir!
21 vincentgallosdick 2015-08-20
It wasn't good.
14 obvwan 2015-08-20
It was too edgy, he had Bailey Jay as sidekick.
13 fawkkyall 2015-08-20
society wasn't ready
1 chicken-named-mike 2015-08-20
Post-Caitlyn Jenner would have right on the bandwagon.
10 mecrag 2015-08-20
Public access production value
9 TriangleDimes 2015-08-20
Jimmy is a day late and a dollar short with everything. He is obsessed with talk shows and situations where he gets to be the host, but he is an awful host and doesn't have the charisma to lead a show. That and he said the shitty production value was on purpose and that as what he was going for, which is a terrible concept. He probably had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted and he chose the most uninteresting route.
2 mecrag 2015-08-20
Intentionally having shitty production value is an odd choice since he was a big part of Lucky Louie, which was partly sunk by Louis' odd choice to intentionally have shitty old fashioned production value.
I wouldn't say he's always a day late and a dollar short because he did make a choice many other comics wouldn't have early in their careers to star on a radio show. That was a brilliant career move that has really benefited him financially. But he lacks the same instincts in television. Really all he needs to do is look at his radio career to see what would work best for him on a television talk show. He should prop someone else up as the frontman host while he's really the star of the show as the sidekick. Like a band in which the lead singer is disposable and the guitarist is the star.
4 TriangleDimes 2015-08-20
You raise a good point with Lucky Louie, and it got me thinking about how nostalgia doesn't sell like that. Both those shows were throwbacks to when they were younger, the shows they watched. They wanted to recpture that. Problem is, nobody identifies with it right now. Nobody is watching public access like that anymore, the new teenage version of that is these YouTube personalities who talk into the camera from their rooms. That's the indie, DIY thing now.
So imagine if in a few years, after we move onto the next format or the next thing, someone comes in and says "I wanna do a show like back in my day, where I sit in my room and talk into a phone and just give my opinion on things." Sounds like shit, doesn't it? Just like "I'm gonna do a show on acheap, dark set and just try to figure it out." The only ones to pull it off were Tim and Eric, but they own that style now.
1 johnnymcjonny 2015-08-20
I was into Louie CK before I even discovered the show, and I remember when "Lucky Louie" came out, I was 19 and hyped it up and....yeah I guess we were stoned but it was weird vibe, just this "All In The Family" stuff. Then I got worried about the FX show but holy shit I was wrong about that. Say what you will but at least it utilizes Louie's strengths instead of him being a smarter Homer Simpson.
I think Jimmy will have more success in the future, he just needs the right outlet.
8 MaxKawalski 2015-08-20
It was 'The Tonight Show' with Jay Lame-o, you feel me?
heh heh but in all seriousness Jim Norton sucks big fuckin' elephant fuckin' dicks. You got that?
8 Bomyknocka 2015-08-20
As soon as he awkwardly introduced Bailey Jay as the "Show Girl" I knew it was going to be a disaster. We get it Jim, you like Trannies, maybe try not leading with that in the future.
2 TakesTheWrongSideGuy 2015-08-20
Bailey Jay is really the most overrated thing I've ever seen. What a horrible announcer he made. That cracking awful voice. Ugh.
6 Opprobriousness 2015-08-20
The television gods were merciful and put it out of its misery.
5 fawkkyall 2015-08-20
last I remember they told him they might bring it back later...and it basically seems they are not bringing back. they were like "don't call us we'll call you"
4 youronebreastedlife 2015-08-20
jim wore a sparkly shirt and said ahhhhmmm if i remember right
2 Houghton91 2015-08-20
They were taking a while to get a deal together for him. In the meantime he was offered a pilot from a TV Network for something similar, so he's doing that instead.
http://splitsider.com/2015/08/ifc-orders-paneltalk-show-pilot-presentations-from-jim-norton-dan-harmon-and-sara-schaefer/
5 aprosbro 2015-08-20
"Instead" Very diplomatic, sir.
2 cabaretcabaret 2015-08-20
The cringe moment in the Rick Ross episode was hilarious.
link
1 idgac-r 2015-08-20
He got a pilot to create it on another network.
1 JoeCumiaSr 2015-08-20
The Jim norton shows have more views than your average who gives a fuck shitty vice news documentary liberal shit video does
1 TijnTijn 2015-08-20
He didn't get cancelled they just didn't have "time" for lil Jimmy.
0 mikestl1988 2015-08-20
Vice made a womens interest channel called BROADLY....so u know where their priorities are at right now
-1 rsdj 2015-08-20
It had ant as a pedo, along with Paul....but it had ant as a pedo...
3 PM_ME_YOUR_FEET- 2015-08-20
"Ant as a pedo" - that's redundant, just say Ant.
1 Stud_beaner_69 2015-08-20
Hey-OOO!!!!!