I'm probably the least celebrity/gossip column type person there is. I still can't tell you what Lindsey Lohan is famous for. But I have found myself adding weekly watchings of THE SOUP to my meager TV watching (Sunday night cartoons, mostly). Joel McHale is really funny to watch and the studio show part has this fun vibe to it ... the only I thing I can compare it to is something like the vibe of THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW (for those of your tri-state area-ites out there). It sounds like the crew IS the cast, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, thought they handled the Heath Ledger news in a nicely sensitive way...

I've found myself watching THE SOUP every Friday for a while now. It's one of the only shows that I really look forward to each week.

The Ledger bit at the end of Friday's was pretty classy, at least I thought so.

Yeah, I am a huge SOUP-a-holic. It is one of the few shows I tune into every week. They find the absolute best clips from mindless TV to highlight and I love it when they do movie spoofs. Plus, Tess (the girl with the dark hair featured in the Kate Moss vacuum cleaner ad) is so hot!

Me, too.

Joel McHale is a very funny guy. But sometimes I find the humor is a little too mean-spirited for my taste.

And I agree, Dave--the Ledger mention at the end of last week's show was indeed classy.

Another Soup-aholic household here!

And Joel McHale is starting to show up elsewhere -- he's been a judge on Iron Chef America, and has appeared with Keith Olbermann on Countdown a number of times.

As Joel himself pointed out, though, I doubt they're going to ask him back on the View any time soon ....

He was also set to star in an NBC sit-com, "The IT Crowd," based on a British show of the same. It was scheduled to debut in the spring, but I think it's now been cancelled, even before airing.

LOVE the Soup! However, I wonder how they have skirted past the writer's strike. As easy as it is to poke fun at these people, those jokes have got to come from somewhere.


BEST WEEK EVER is pretty funny too and focuses a little more on the internet.


marc

The Soup probably runs under the whole news/"reality TV" umbrella, which would exempt them from the strike. How it's technically different from programs like THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, which *are* affected by the strike, I dunno. (Though I have to wonder how TDS gets by -- I'm fairly certain that Jon's not ad-libbing *everything* including well-cued Chyron graphics and video cutaways, though I do guess that they must have had a number of already-produced location pieces already in the can).

It's a non-union show.

The Guild is cutting TDS some slack since Stewart was instrumental in getting the writers at Comedy Central unionized. Most cable shows are non-union.

Aaaaah, that makes sense. Much as I admire Jon's quick wit, I just couldn't believe that he was pulling off these new eps of THE...er...A DAILY SHOW without some help.

I drove by a huge (no other kind in Hollywood) billboard for THE SOUP on Highland the other day and found it so instantly hateful that I vowed I would never watch an inch of it. Do we seriously need another dishwater douchebag host with the requisite two-day growth of beard? Doesn't Ryan Seacrest still fill those shoes?

At least he doesn't have any tattoos that I know of, so you can rest easy there.