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Tom Shales is a wanker
One of our readers, Darrin Hensley, alerted us to the Washington Post Tourgasm review by the ever dyspeptic Tom Shales. Herewith is the money quote:
Unfortunately, the show’s format… is off-putting from the outset, largely because comedians are among the most self-absorbed and self-fascinated creatures on the planet– monkeys in front of mirrors who seem never to tire of making allegedly funny faces.
Have you seen Tom Shales on any of his television appearances? He has a great face for telegraphy. He should be so lucky to look in the mirror and see a monkey. There is plainly something wrong with the man that he harbors such animosity toward comedians. The Washington Post wouldn’t let anyone get away with such bigotry toward any other group. (He just took a buyout from the WashPo, so we probably won’t have to deal with his drivel any more.)
Says Hensley of the review: “Don’t get me wrong… I like making funny faces but jeez… I’m not always looking in the mirror.”
PS: If you’re here to read our review of Tourgasm, scroll down.
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if u go to metacritic.com (I love this site so if you never heard of it check it out) and search for TOURGASM, you will see plenty of editorial reviews and none of them are glowing, Variety and a few others gave it a 10/100. I havent seen the show yet though.
I swear, I don’t intend to be the contrarian around here, but I kinda think comics are pretty obnoxiously self-absorbed, too (myself included and the rest of you excluded, of course). I don’t watch LCS or Tourgasm for exactly that reason. Well, that and petty jealousy.
We’re amazed that we still find it necessary to say this, it being 2006 and all, but: we certainly know of some self-absorbed comics… but we don’t find them <>all<> to be that way. To put it another way, we don’t find any higher of a concentration of self-absorbed folks among comics than among, say, doctors or sales clerks or toll takers or attorneys. The truly disgraceful part of Shales’ comment, which makes it indicative of a pathology, is the all-encompassing nature of it– he extrapolates his (horribly negative) observation to the population of comics at large, which is something we’ve been told not to do since we were in kindergarten. (We’re always told to judge each person individually.)
Doctors and attorneys, I’ll give you, but I expect that clerks and toll-takers do probably make us all look pretty shallow.
The other dirty little secret that’s exposed by this show is that most comics just aren’t that entertaining off stage.