Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix special is out and, critics be damned, it is a must-watch. I know it’s a lot of recycled material, but it’s still one of the best comedy specials I’ve seen in a while. Even if he’s just “playing the hits,” it’s solid material from one of the best to ever play the game.
Here’s his 1998 HBO special, “I’m Telling You For the Last Time.” This was the first comedy album I ever owned, and I still listen to it today.
In Netflix’s upcoming drama Ozark, Jason Bateman takes a dark turn as a Marty Byrde, a man trying to live a normal life with his dysfunctional family — while working as the top money launderer for the second-largest drug cartel in Mexico. After his partner is caught embezzling money, he is guilty by association and somehow convinces his vicious handler to spare his life and let him relocate his family and bring his money-laundering ways from the suburbs of Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks.[via Deadline]
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LET’S GO. I’ve been waiting for a show to give me those Breaking Bad feels since it went off the air in 2013. Lots of shows have come close, but this just might be the one. It’s nice to see Jason Bateman play a role outside Michael Bluth that doesn’t make me roll my eyes (looking at you every movie he’s ever made). Reviews are slowly coming in and they are overwhelmingly positive so let’s hope this isn’t some elaborate cocktease projected by the fake news. Ozark premieres this Friday, July 21st on Netflix. Check out the trailer below.
I know its not a popular opinion these days with his new garbage Netflix assassin spoof movie and shows like Toucher and Rich skewering his predictably terrible new sitcom Kevin Can Wait…but I still love Kevin James.
It’s just too bad he went to the Adam Sandler School of Mailing It In. Just like Sandler, not to the same extent obviously, James was a funny ass guy with a stand up special that you can still quote in “Sweat the Small Stuff.” Add a hit sitcom that killed for years and is still highly watchable to this day in King of Queens. That show was hilarious with solid writing, George Costanza’s dad and of course the sneaky foxy Leah Remini. That my friends are the ingredients for an enjoyable 22 minutes.
Chuck and Larry – pretty solid. Hitch? Classic. Unfortunately, the money is always too good to turn down and these famous comics, particularly guys who rely on physical comedy, fall back on their shtick (for James it’s the shlubby suburban guy) and collect paychecks for making stuff they 100% know is garbage. I actually watched the new Netflix movie he put out, True Memoirs of an International Assassin, over Thanksgiving, and while it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen, I did not laugh.
Paul Blart? Pretty bad. Paul Blart TWO? Slap in the face. Pixels? Woof. And now the new sitcom is the definition of mailing it in.
But don’t forget the good times people. Some of the top Kevin James moment below that I still quote to this day.
Alarm Clock “Can you wake me up in 7 minutes?”
Water Skiing “He’s down again”
“You got a Butterfinger first you fat ass?”
The Hitch Dance Scene
Playing football with 10 year olds
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