"Primetime Glick" (2001) TV series 2001-2003

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

John Blanchard

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

20 June 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Music | Talk-Show

Tagline:

If you think you know Hollywood... You don't know GLICK!

Plot:

Talk-show parody featuring obese host Jiminy Glick, who usually knows nothing about his guests and hurls veiled insults at them during his interviews.

Plot Keywords:

Monologue | Bandleader | Interview | Celebrity | Sketch

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations

Cast

Martin Short	...	Jiminy Glick / ... (30 episodes, 2001-2003)
Michael McKean	...	Adrien Van Voorhees (30 episodes, 2001-2003)
Brett Gilbert	...	Ladislof (30 episodes, 2001-2003)
David Lee McLain	...	Zoltan (18 episodes, 2001-2002)
Alex Baker	...	Carole - Guitarist / ... (17 episodes, 2001-2003)

Runtime:

22 min (30 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Comedy Central

Trivia:

Jan Hooks , who plays Jiminy Glick's wife Dixie, previously guest starred on Martin Short's short running series "The Martin Short Show" (1994)

Quotes:

[interviewing Mel Brooks]
Jiminy Glick: Now, I have to ask you. What's your beef with the Nazis?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Family Guy: 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter (#4.8)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Primetime Glick theme

C'mon, we all know Glick is Merv Griffin.

When I was a kid, a broadcast of SCTV would only get my attention if Martin Short was the guy on the screen. Even today my tastes have not wavered. The only reason I am thinking of getting TEVO is so that I can punch in Martin's name and take in a month's worth of his talent when nobody is there to bother me.

Martin Short is without a doubt the funniest human being who has ever lived. His Jiminy Glick character is especially funny, and obviously so "inside" most people don't even get it...or do they?

Martin Short is the only heterosexual man who can make Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn impersonations funny for us straight men. Please don't take this as a homophobic view, rather, it is testament to Short's incredible talent. He's just funnier than a conventional drag queen or a female impersonator. He does what he does, and his straight audience laughs because it's funny, while his gay audience falls off their chairs because it's so hilariously campy and cruel.

Today I watched an episode of Primetime Jiminy and watched Short do a reenactment of Sal Mineo's murder with marionettes. Imagine that...a famous gay murder played out with cheap puppets -- it was so patently gay, yet only a small percent of those watching (and laughing) would understand how horribly and morbidly funny it really was.

C'mon, we all know Jiminy Glick is Merv Griffin -- it's so beyond funny because Martin Short is essentially a straight drag queen.

Thanks, Damien