Barenaked Ladies on Fox

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on September 28th, 2004

A Reuters item, entitled “Fox Tuning Up Barenaked Ladies” caught our attention.

Barenaked Ladies blend of music and comedy is coming to television.

Fox Broadcasting Co. has ordered a pilot presentation for a comedy/variety show starring the members of the popular Canadian pop group, known for its playful music style of tongue-in-cheek humor, pop-culture lyrics and upbeat tempos.

The project, tentatively titled The Barenaked Ladies Variety Show, is set to expand upon the comedy sketches that have become a staple of Barenaked Ladies’ concerts, along with the quintet’s stage banter and improv bits with the audience.

We’re well aware that the boys (as we call them) aren’t standup comics. But after seeing them five times over the past decade, we proclaimed them the funniest band around. They’re not quite standup comics, but they’ve got timing an a tremendous sense of humor and their live shows are often a scream. Skene warns them not to become the Hudson Brothers. “They better not end each show by singing ‘The Razzle Dazzle Wrapup of Everything.’ Oh, sure, one of them might get to impregnate Goldie Hawn, but at what cost?”

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