Aug 15, 2008 10:53 am US/Pacific
BB10: When Did It Become The Funniest Show On TV?
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Reality show or sitcom? The cast of BB10 has to be one of the funniest ensembles ever put on the tube.
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To: Allison Grodner, exec producer of "Big Brother"
From: Alan Carter, cbs2.com web producer, "BB" fan
Re: This season
Date: Aug. 15, 2008
Dear Allison Grodner,
I've given up, finally, looking for a twist this season. Even though you said there
wasn't one, I thought that would be the twist...you know, make everyone think there wasn't a twist but there would be a twist. And that would be the twist! Twisted!
With Libra -- my odds on favorite to win this season being voted out last night by a score of 6-0 -- I'm thinking who now has a shot of winning? (And Libra, on the strength of your speech on why your houseguests should keep you, I gotta be honest, I wanted to vote you out, too! Awful, rambling!)
I think my money player might now be Dan, who survived a week in which Jerry called him out and called him Judas, for voting Jessie out last week. Or maybe Keesha. She's playing a most interesting game. She screams at April, tells her how much she can't stand her. And then minutes later, they're hugging it out.
Before I keep speculating on this season, can I offer you one little piece of fan advice Allison?
Next season, when the Emmy award nomination ballots are due -- sure, check off "Big Brother" in the reality show competition. But I think you should also try for best comedy!
Not since Season 8 when Amber said, "I think I have what it takes to be a model" have the viewers laughed so hard and so consistently. Is it me? Are you making the show hysterical on purpose?
When April said last week she was putting Jessie on the block because "you're a strong player intellectually," please tell me she was kidding. THAT is the funniest line on any show, all year. Maybe in TV history. [I mean, no offense Jessie, but one time you said Libra was "the most deviant" person you knew, when you meant devious. And then you messed up the same word a week later. Come on!]
And April had a couple more winners this week and last. When discussing Jerry and the other houseguests basically saying he was a lame contestant, Libra said, maybe the competition would be something he
was good at. To which April deadpanned, "If it's a nose picking competition I'm sure he will do
fantastic." Meow! But funnnnny!
Didn't think April could top that one, until last night when asked by her showmance Ollie why Keesha had it in for her so badly. April rolled her eyes at him and said, "Because I'm prettier than her...she works at Hooters, she's
30! She never went to college!" [Aside to April: At the hot or not web site --hotornot.com -- Keesha has a 9.8 to your 8.7.]
Dan having to hug Jessie for "ten seconds" as America's Player? That was brilliant. And even more so when Dan, looking uncomfortable, realized he made the ten seconds and kept holding on to play it up. Who knew Dan was a brilliant comic? And speaking of Jessie, we thought we would honestly miss him walking around shirtless 24-7, but ... since he did it so much in the first five weeks, even we had to admit to a certain amount of Torso Burnout.
And when Jessie said he wasn't really good at golf "cause my back is too big." Well, Jessie...we miss your funny comments -- not sure they were intentionally supposed to be funny, but no matter. Who else could come up with a line like that? Oh wait. He topped that one with: "Finally, one of my naps paid off in the house." That's playing a strategic game, Jessie! Napping!
Memphis, who the first couple of weeks looked like he was trying to score a commercial for a sleep aid, has really come into his own. He might be THE funniest person in the house. His deadpan diary room visits are becoming a season highlight. He's totally straight, but he's a bigger drama queen than Steven, the gay guy, EVER was!
For sheer laughs though, we are all still trying to heal busted guts from "Keesha's Birthday Party." Perhaps the saddest birthday in TV history. There was so much screaming, yelling and carrying on, it made Lesley Gore's "It's My Party, And I'll Cry If I Want To," sound like the theme to Barney the Dinosaur.
Allison, I don't know how you did it...topping the wild bunch of Season 8 and the horndogs of season 9, but on paper, to be honest, before this season started we were kinda wondering where the juice was going to be.
Clearly, the 13 people you cast for season 10 all scored very high (or was that very low?) on some kinda test.
Type-A? All of em. Narcissistic? In ways we have never seen on a reality show. High-strung? Do these people fight at the drop of a hat or what?
Last night, after Renny won HoH, she said, "I know why they picked us all." Well, Ren...I still haven't figured it out...but I'm not going to think about it too much and spoil the process. It's like wondering what the Colonel's (Sanders, not Colonel Jerry) 11 secret spices are. I really don't care. Just keep serving up the chicken!
We thought when Michelle had to wear the infamous red unitard she would pop a vein...we actually saw some veins throbbing when she put it on. And Allison, as a viewer from episode 2 of the first season, I know it's become a ritual for the evicted houseguest to say good-bye and hug people on the way out...
But the insincerity to which
this cast says their good-byes at the door...well, what can I say, funny and priceless at the same time! The eye-rolling, snide comments, little digs, the phony platitudes -- did Libra really say last night as she left: "You guys, please, remember it's a game!" You think!!! ? Great stuff!
We said it before...didn't think you could top season 8...or 9....but 10?!? Whoa!!!
Sincerely,
Alan
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