Second Episode of Thank God You’re Here Extends the Pleasures
Second Episode of Thank God You’re Here Extends the Pleasures by Roxanne McDonald
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Caricature. Sustained characture. Exaggeration. Play on words. Poopie jokes. The literal. The figurative. Extended motifs. And shock. With costumes and improv formats, “Thank God You’re Here” boasts a variety of comedic approaches tucked nicely into a variety show-reality TV competition format. |
Installment two of “Thank God You’re Here” is just as entertaining and satisfying as the “pilot” episode which aired right before it. Following Bryan Cranston, Joel McHale, Jennifer Coolidge, and Wayne Knight was not as they say in clicheland a hard act to follow, though, as the competing comics have brought their talent and skills and experience to the improvisational format with as much richness and aplomb as the first group.
Mo’Nique (comedienne and host of the upcoming “Charm School) offers a kind of fish-out-of-water game show co-host performance; Kevin Nealon (SNL and a zillion funny shows and films) gives us a flip self-aggrandizing famous
high-altitude guide; Richard Kind (best remembered for his Mark on “Mad About You”) does a definitively geeky radio show foley artist; and Edie McClurg (the adorable and quirky next door neighbor, Mrs. Patty Poole, on “Valerie,” and character actress in over 100 works) does a kind of repressed wife with verbal Tourettes as the wife at a marriage counselor’s.
David Alan Grier, while locked into a fairly muted emcee “role”, and Dave Foley, who is so damned funny in any role, and now in the role of judge and aooga button monitor, I suspect audiences will be wishing they also joined in on the acts.
And the ensemble cast bring a skilled and engaging eventfulness to each of the scenarios or skits, so it is only right to say to Chris Tallman; Maribeth Monroe; Brian Palermo; and Nyima Funk a big Thank God you are here, too!
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