"Are You There, Chelsea?" in 30 Seconds

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 1:30am

"Are You There, Chelsea?" in 30 Seconds

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 2:59pm

That's about how I remember it. Except that cuts out an unfunny joke about being a top/bottom that they kept bringing up.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 3:53pm

I was happy to see that the Vinny Machado joke (the one from the commerical they've shown 900 times) wasn't in this compilation.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 4:06pm

Seriously, is there a worse actress than Prepon?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/12/12 at 4:18pm

Yes, Chelsea Handler.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/16/12 at 3:42am

Just watched this show last night, it was sooooo unbearably bad and this is as someone who laughed out loud when I first read Chelsea Handler's books. The dialogue is embarrassing (lines taken straight from the books do NOT work when spoken by characters...especially when those characters are played by awful actors), the acting is atrocious and unfunny in every way, and the overall tone of the show is so bad.
Laura Prepon as Chelsea is just painful.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 1/27/12 at 3:29pm

I've watched the first 3 episodes. All terrible. This show will be cancelled soon.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/27/12 at 10:35pm

I can't blame any of this on Laura. At her best, I love Chelsea, but this is completely the kind of crap she would mock mercilessly on her show...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/27/12 at 10:38pm

NBC really needs to figure their shlt out. This and WHITNEY are allowed to pollute the airwaves and COMMUNITY is put on indefinite hiatus. Something ain't right over there.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/27/12 at 10:40pm

It's partly due to Greenblatt's move there last Spring from Showtime. He has said he didn't have time to even approve the midseason series (which seems unlikely to me). No wonder NBC is shoving Smash down everyone's throats--it seems to be his only personal project.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 1/27/12 at 11:45pm

Was the little seen adaptation The Firm a Greenblatt decision? Just reading early reports that they never technically had a show runner when they started getting this ball rolling, essentially relying on the John Grisham name in 2011/2012, made me a bit nervous. The show, that really should not be on Thursday nights, put the network in 8th place. That's right, 8th place. I think Kevin Grisham has more name recognition at this point than John Grisham (and NBC seemed better off actually creating 30 Rock fake shows for real than what came down the pipeline the last 2 years).

At least some of the new stuff they are trying out for the next fall season sound interesting. I know Sara Silverman is a pretty polarizing figure but her last program on Comedy Central was really underrated (hopefully some people from that show, that also happened to have Dan Harmon of Community on it, have joined her) and I am actually looking forward to her getting a network show. NBC also has another Jason Katims show planned.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/28/12 at 12:08am

I am not sure, but I hope not. I think Greenblatt is (mostly) a really savvy man, even with my mixed view of Smash and like you say, this just seems such a wrong headed move. The cast is good, but *nobody* at this point in time wanted a TV adaptation of The Firm--Grisham still sells but he's not the name he was, and the movie has been all but forgotten, I suspect more people remember Cruise in Cocktail than The Firm.

[clever name]

Posted: 1/28/12 at 10:27am

What Jordan said.