And I thought Andrew Rannells' show was bad- Page 2

[Plum]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 12:46pm

Ken Tucker is wrong. The show stays bad, just not as bad as the pilot. Mostly because there's less Josh Gad after the pilot. Jenna Elfman is the only person giving a remotely good performance, and even she can't make much of the writing on this show. Just abysmal stuff.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 2:41pm

Is this Elder Cunningham at the white house?

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 2:41pm

Is this Elder Cunningham at the white house?

[sabrelady]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 2:52pm

Saw a few mins of it. ???? It looked like it belonged on Nickelodeon w Victorious and and all those other crap-tastic almost written tween shows.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 3:19pm

I had no idea that Gad was the creator. I did not really hate it, but was washing dishes and not really paying attention. Did not see BOM on Broadway, but his voice character seem to be identical.

Platt is excellent as Elder C. in Chicago! Hilarious!

[tazber]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 3:24pm

Here's that editorial I was mentioning from Kenn Tucker:

Here’s the thing: You’re not going to laugh very much, I’m guessing, at the 1600 Penn that premieres tonight. The debut lumbers along like the pilot for a complex drama, as though it had to carefully delineate each member of a wacky White House family headed up by Bill Pullman’s President, Jenna Elfman’s First Lady, her stepson played by Josh Gad, and the family’s other kids. But the show gets better; by the third episode, I liked the characters and I was laughing.

He has some more comments about the cast and the show as a whole in the link.
Entire article

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 5:52pm

For some reason in the pilot I thought the younger two kids were actually Jenna Elfman's characters and not her stepkids, but in the second episode I was proved wrong.

Posted: 1/12/13 at 6:11pm

I can't stop thinking about my Grumpy Cat series. I am working on a pilot and I think if Disney picks up another season of Dog With a Blog I might get a commitment from ABC.

I see it as a Seinfeld meets Home Improvement- Tard is a cynical urban cat living with a suburban nuclear family. Hijinks ensue and then we zoom in on Tard looking grumpy and we hear his thoughts. His catch phrase is "You can die now."

I am casting Tard's voice. I wish Lorenzo Music was still alive.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 6:16pm

I'm PMing you my demo reel!

[Kad]

Posted: 1/12/13 at 7:22pm

Oh, but Tard is a girl cat. I think we need a sardonic actress for it.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 1/13/13 at 12:28pm

Lea Thompson?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/13/13 at 12:44pm

I watched the first two episodes and I was right! It's not as bad as Sullivan and Son! So, I don't hate it. I'm just ambivalent. It appears to try to be Veep for those who don't pay for premium channels.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/13/13 at 12:52pm

It's starting out shaky, but I don't find it nearly as offensive as The New Normal (I gave up on that one after the second or third episode where we had to hear a nine year old tell Ellen Barkin he was adding her to his spank bank). I can at least see the potential for liking some of the characters here.

[Jon]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 10:24am

Janene Garofalo as the voice of Tard.

Posted: 1/14/13 at 10:42am

Casting a woman as Tard opens up all sorts of possibilities. We're talking to Garofalo's people now. I want to do a cameo with Stritch as Tard's grandmother.

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 1/20/13 at 10:55pm

The third episode wasn't too bad.... I'll give it a few more episodes because of that one, but I wouldn't feel bad dropping it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/13 at 10:57pm

I missed the second episode but laughed all the way through the first and the latest episodes.

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/22/13 at 9:29am

I haven't seen 1600 Penn and don't care for The New Normal, but I really like Rannells on Girls! Loved when he told Marnie she looked like a slutty Von Trapp child in her hostessing outfit.

[canmark]

Posted: 1/26/13 at 10:03pm

Josh Gad has been busy. He plays Steve Wozniak in a movie about Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) that premiered at Sundance:
http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/sundance-would-jobs-please-wozniak.html

http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13086/jobs

Clip: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3341657881/