we ate at the super secret down-low cliff’s edge restaurant in silverlake yesterday, which was quite yummy. hmc noticed that bob saget was sitting at the table next to us. not that i was eavesdropping, but it was interesting hearing snippets of him analyzing and comparing the comedy of jon stewart, bill mahr, dennis miller, and howard stern, and then go into a deep discussion of borat. normally you wouldn’t give a shit about what someone thought on things like this, but this is coming from a professional comedian, so they have some degree of astute insight on it, right?
what’s more interesting to me is that before the aristocrats, you wouldn’t have cared at all what the hell he thought, because i mean really, full house? what a joke. but now based on his five minutes in that movie, suddenly we’re supposed to take it that he was just doing the “wholesome dad in the prototypical formulaic sitcom” bit for the money and he has actually been secretly subversive the whole time?
either way, props to him for reclaiming his cred. we didn’t bother him at all, but i kind of wanted to ask him what he thought about mary-kate and ashley these days…
Posted at December 26, 2006 11:37 PMSo! what did he think?
Posted by: Carrie at January 3, 2007 11:46 AMbasically he thought that dennis miller often was spouting stuff off not to make a point but to show off how intelligent he was, although he was really impressed with his long little mini-diatribes and even more if perhaps dennis actually memorized them (which he wasn’t sure of one way or the other). and then he was comparing borat to jackass. but mostly, i was busy eating.
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