I remember when Billy Crystal used to be funny. He was one of the few good Academy Awards hosts and it seems the only one who was any good that the Academy would bring back year after year... I'm not including his last couple times hosting, particularly the last one, where he was not funny at all. I think that's actually the problem, that he was once very funny (a couple of his movies in the 1980's are among my favourite comedies), but he got old and stopped being funny. Watching him stumble and ham his way through this show The Comedians just hammered that home for me.
Much worse than Billy Crystal (what's he supposed to do say no to doing a series and turning down the money?) is Josh Gad who is young but is still a hundred million times less funny than Billy Crystal... Billy Crystal today that is... and about a hundred billion trillion times less funny than Billy Crystal back when Billy Crystal was funny. Watching him stink his way through sketch after sketch and desperately plead for laughs with his over the top comedy acting actually made me angry. I almost threw things at my television a couple of times.
In short, the show is terrible, Billy Crystal is not good any more, and Josh Gad is walking, talking garbage.
Much worse than Billy Crystal (what's he supposed to do say no to doing a series and turning down the money?) is Josh Gad who is young but is still a hundred million times less funny than Billy Crystal... Billy Crystal today that is... and about a hundred billion trillion times less funny than Billy Crystal back when Billy Crystal was funny. Watching him stink his way through sketch after sketch and desperately plead for laughs with his over the top comedy acting actually made me angry. I almost threw things at my television a couple of times.
In short, the show is terrible, Billy Crystal is not good any more, and Josh Gad is walking, talking garbage.