September 2011
I watched the Whitney pilot On Demand the other day and laughed once or twice in 22 minutes, it was horrible. Supposedly it's filmed in front of a live audience, but I think they hold signs or spears at the audience to get them to laugh, no way that show makes it, but Happy Ending is a show so you never know.
Actually I think the awkward “filmed in front of a live studio audience” VoiceOver in the beginning (which I don’t think I’ve heard since Full House was in primetime) was added later, after focus groups noted that the laugh track sounds mechanical, fake, and otherwise laughable, but not in a funny way…
Prediction
“Whitney” is such a bad program that statistically you will be able to see a sharp downward spike in the number of babies named Whitney in the coming year.
Whitney...
I think the NBC execs who greenlit Whitney overestimated how much viewers finding her attractive would compensate for utter piss-poorness of script and a laughtrack so heavy-handed I thought it was ironic for first five minutes.
Whitney
Is so unbelievably bad that I think it just reversed women’s suffrage.
Does the fact that I’m suffering watching this make this true?
Drink every time you think James Spader is Darrell Hammond
Drink every time you wish James Spader was Darrell Hammond
kind of thought the same thing
Drink
Play
