Nigel, we're sorry about the whole revolutionary war and all that... take this clown back!

Watched the whole show this weekend, and chuckled a few times but I guess I just don't get it. Gimme the Simpsons anyday. I don't need highbrow humour- and a few of the quips you guys have mentioned are funny- but this is just not my cup of tea. Admittedly most American comedians are not that funny and most of our sitcoms are crap- well, more rehashed than anything, the days of originality seem as gone as cheap gasoline... but this dude, I just don't think is funny.

Then again, I didn't think Andy Kaufmann usually was either, and some folks call him a comic genius. (I used to love Python, Firesign theatre, old (pre-political) George Carlin, even the stupid adolescent drug humour of Cheech and Chong in their day... even pre-sitcome Bill Cosby was a marvelous writer, ditto Conan O'Brien... maybe that's the problem, at 41, I've lived long enough to have seen both good and bad comedians, sitcoms, cartoons, etc., and what I think is funny isn't this shite. And I still maintain the downfall of most good comedians or comic writers is either getting overtly political (hmm, same with folk musicians sometimes) or in simply gentrifiying their material in trying to please everyone.

But of course, just my opinion.

jim