Thank God Dave Foley’s Here
Thank God Dave Foley’s Here–or Will Be by Roxanne McDonald
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Or, thank God Dave Foley’s back in the act (sort of, anyway)—on “Thank God You’re Here.” |
We fell in love with him (among others) in “The Kids in the Hall”—a satirical skit series that saw him playing the everyman as often as the everyman’s wife.
We were thrilled that though “Kids…” stopped airing, Foley made cameo appearances in every subsequent comedy from the tendentious Stuart Lamarack in “Will and Grace” to the malleable shrink on “King of Queens” to the inimitable Dr. Hendrick on “Scrubs”.
And I know I was more than delighted, addicted, to tuning in to every episode of “Celebrity Poker Showdown” because Foley was hosting…knowing I would get great laughs from the sometimes slurry-mouthed emcee who was often visibly and audibly less than thrilled to be there. (Still, Foley injected mock or mawkish (?) humor into what could have been an otherwise unfunny show, save the
rounds where other equally hilarious performers appeared to play poker.
So when the show to start airing April 9, on NBC, has a comical premise or promise, and that show, “Thank God You’re Here,” is announced as having Dave Foley as judge (along with also funny David Alan Grier [“In Living Color”]), we who were missing the Canadian comical genius are now excited and looking forward.
Continued proof in the hasty pudding that is Foley funny business can be found in Comicon writer Jennifer M. Contino’s interview….
with Grier and Foley, comedy sketch gurus who, Contino reports, would sometimes during the conference call with her pretend to be answering questions as other characters, other comics, or each other.
The ever self-effacing Foley responds to a question about whether the “Thank God You’re Here” actors will get to use “Kids in the Hall” costumes by saying most of their costumes have “decayed from age. Most were made out of papyrus.”
As they are asked how they are “just hored guns” for the show, Grier responds that the U.S. version is different in that in Australia the host is “just a host” while here, he
wanted to also perform…. Foley adds that “Also their guests were famous for Australians. There’s a difference.”
The ever-willing to make others the butt of his humor, too, Foley responds about how others have been buzzed “out of their misery” for bombing by remarking how he has had times when he should have been “buzzed out of my misery, where I was bombed miserably. But, no one has bombed so far…. We’re hoping someone will at one point.” For of course, he adds, “My job is mostly to sit back and watch and enjoy people being funny, than make three of them mad at me at the end of the show, which is different because usually I make everyone mad at me.”
The ever-glib Foley responds to a question about how they decided on the a-ooga buzzer by announcing that “The a-ooga buzzer was handed down to me from my great grandfather — it’s been in my family for generations.”
And the always quick wit does his best Foley impression, if you will, when the question is “I liked the Pilot what was the genesis of this show? Why are you presenting it in this format?” and he comes back with the expected but unexpected, “What was the question? I didn’t hear it.”
I imagine we will have these and several other forms of Foley fun when the new Australian take-off of “Thank God You’re Here” airs. I have faith we will, anyway.
Thank God we have the likes of (David Grier, sure) Dave Foley.
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